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Actress Brittany Murphy dies at 32
Sunday 20 December 2009
TMZ.com reported that Murphy was taken from her home in Los Angeles to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre following an emergency call, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Murphy had been reduced to starring in low-budget indie movies in recent years, most recently the thriller 'Across the Hall,' which had a limited opening in New York and Los Angeles two weeks ago.
Earlier this month, reports circulated that she was fired from the movie 'The Caller', which is filming in Puerto Rico.
Her publicist said the split was 'creative differences'. When she and her husband returned to Los Angeles, he fell unconscious on the plane and was rushed to hospital.
Murphy had recently been photographed in an emaciated state at public events.
Murphy seemed destined for big things in the 1990s, thanks to roles in such films as 'Clueless' (1995) and 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' (1999), as well as in 'Girl, Interrupted', for which Angelina Jolie received an Oscar in 2000.
She appeared opposite Michael Douglas in the 2001 thriller 'Don't Say A Word,' and played Eminem's love interest in the 2002 hit '8 Mile'.
The following year, she co-starred with Ashton Kutcher in the romantic comedy 'Just Married' and with Dakota Fanning in 'Uptown Girls'. But the movies failed to generate much commercial or critical heat.
Murphy enjoyed more enduring success on the small screen, providing the voice of the vacuous Texan Luanne Platter in the cartoon series 'King of the Hill'. She also voiced a penguin in the 2006 box office hit 'Happy Feet'.
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