In 2007, she appeared in LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya, opposite Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill, receiving nominations for Tony and Drama Desk Awards. She appeared as Ruth Sherwood in a revival of Wonderful Town from 2003 to 2005 (having previously performed in the New York City Center Encores! 2000 staged concert of that musical), and was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. The role earned her a second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. In 1996, she played Anna Leonowens in the revival of The King and I alongside Lou Diamond Phillips, also recording a cast album. A year later she appeared in Lapine's revival, Twelve Dreams. In 1994, she played the role of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Passion, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance. She also played Audrey in Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors. On Broadway, after They're Playing Our Song (1979), she was an understudy in the musical/opera The Human Comedy in April 1984 and played various roles in The Mystery of Edwin Drood from 1985 to 1987. In 2012, she appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods at The Public Theater's Delacorte Theatre as the Witch. Peter's, The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1985 at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theatre, Birds of Paradise in 1987 (Promenade Theatre), Privates on Parade ( Roundabout Theatre) in 1989, the musical Song of Singapore in 1991, the Michael John LaChiusa musical Hello Again at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater in 1993, Twelve Dreams at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in 1995, and Helen at the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in 2002. She has appeared in many off-Broadway productions, including the musical Francis in 1981 at the York Theatre at St. I needed to audition without cutting classes." She also studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. In a 2007 interview, Murphy explained, "At the end of my sophomore year, I took a leave of absence. Murphy dropped out of the New York University drama program in her sophomore year when she was cast to understudy the three backup singers in the 1979 Broadway musical They're Playing Our Song. She later moved to Topsfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in 1977.
At age three, she asked for voice lessons, and she put on shows as a child in Hauppauge. Her family moved to Hauppauge, Long Island, New York.
Murphy is of Irish, French, German, and Czech ancestry. Murphy, the eldest of seven children, was born in Corona, Queens, New York, the daughter of Jeanne ( née Fink) and Robert Murphy, an aerospace engineer.
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As of 2022, she portrays Caroline Astor in the HBO series The Gilded Age. Her film roles include Anij in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Rosalie Octavius in Spider-Man 2 (2004), Mother Gothel in the animated film Tangled (2010), and one of the government secretaries in The Bourne Legacy (2012). In 1997, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special for her role in Someone Had to be Benny, an episode of the HBO series Lifestories: Families in Crisis. Her other stage credits include the original off-Broadway productions of Song of Singapore (1991) and Hello Again (1993), as well as the alternate to Bette Midler as the title character in a Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! (2017–2018). Murphy made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the 1979 musical They're Playing Our Song. She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town (2003), Lotte Lenya in LoveMusik (2007) and Bubbie/Raisel in The People in the Picture (2011). A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion (1994–1995) and as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1996–1997). Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her work in musical theater.
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