Donna Murphy

Donna Murphy is an American actress and singer, known for her work in musical theater. A fivetime Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Fosca in Passion and as Anna Leonowens in The King and I . She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town , Lotte Lenya in LoveMusik and BubbleRaisel in The People in the Picture .

Murphy, the eldest of seven children, was born in Corona, Queens, New York, the daughter of Jeanne and Robert Murphy, an aerospace engineer. Murphy is of Irish, French, German, and Czech ancestry. Her family moved to Hauppauge, Long Island, New York. At age three, she asked for voice lessons, and she put on shows as a child in Hauppauge. She later moved to Topsfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in 1977.

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