Brittany was born on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta Georgia. Her breakthrough role was the part of Tai, one of Alicia Silverstone's airhead friends in the 1995 comedy Clueless.
Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey. She was acting in regional theatre productions by the age of nine. Work in various commercials followed, and in 1990 she landed her first television role, on the sitcom Blossom. She then went on to a lead on the short-lived sitcom Drexell's Class in 1991, and the following year she made her film debut in the dysfunctional family drama Family Prayers.
Murphy's talent for portraying all sorts of dysfunction was further exhibited in such films as Clueless; the Reese Witherspoon trailer trash odyssey Freeway (1996); and the made-for-TV David and Lisa (1998). In 1999, Murphy could again be seen portraying an emotionally damaged character in Girl, Interrupted, in which she played a patient at a mental institution. That same year, she explored the collective insanity of the beauty pageant world in Drop Dead Gorgeous, playing a pageant contestant who'd rather be living it up in New York with her cross-dressing brother. On the small screen that year, she switched to much darker fare with the Holocaust drama The Devil's Arithmetic. With her plate increasingly full moving into the new millennium, Murphy could be seen in the both the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say a Word, and alongside Drew Barrymore in Riding in Cars With Boys in 2001.
Sin City (2005) .... Shellie
Little Black Book (2004) .... Stacy
Good Boy! (2003) (voice) .... Nelly
Uptown Girls (2003) .... Molly Gunn
Just Married (2003) .... Sarah McNerney
8 Mile (2002) .... Alex
Spun (2002) .... Nikki
Something In Between (2002) .... Sky
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) .... Fay Hope Forrester
Don't Say a Word (2001) .... Elisabeth Burrows
Summer Catch (2001) .... Dede Mulligan
Sidewalks of New York (2001) .... Ashley
The Audition (2000) .... Daniella
Cherry Falls (2000) .... Jody Marken
Angels! (2000) .... Nurse Bellows
Trixie (2000) .... Ruby Pearli
Common Ground (2000) (TV) .... Dorothy Nelson
Girl, Interrupted (1999) .... Daisy Randone
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999/I) .... Lisa Swenson
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) (TV) .... Rivkah
David and Lisa (1998) (TV) .... Lisa
Zack and Reba (1998) .... Reba Simpson
Phoenix (1998) .... Veronica
Bongwater (1998) .... Mary
The Prophecy II (1998) (V) .... Izzy
Falling Sky (1998) .... Emily Nicholson
"King of the Hill" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Luanne Platter (1997-)/Joseph Gribble (1997-2000)
Drive (1997) .... Deliverance Bodine
"Pepper Ann" (1997) TV Series (voice) .... Tank the 8th grader
Double Jeopardy (1996) (TV) .... Julia Marie Neuland
Freeway (1996) .... Rhonda
Clueless (1995) .... Tai Fraiser
"Sister, Sister" (1994) TV Series .... Sarah (1994-1995)
"Almost Home" (1993) TV Series .... Molly Morgan
Family Prayers (1993) .... Elise
"Drexell's Class" (1991) TV Series .... Brenda Drexell
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