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Actress Brittany Murphy - Source: Reuters
Actress Brittany Murphy died in Los Angeles on Monday according to officials. She was 32.
Following are some facts about her life:
Murphy was born in Atlanta and raised in New Jersey, before moving with her mother to California, where she landed a role in the television show Blossom in 1993.
She was born Brittany Bertolotti on November 10, 1977, and changed her name when her parents Sharon Murphy and Angelo Bertolotti split, according to the Internet Movie Database website (imdb.com).
Her breakthrough role was as Tai in 1995's Jane Austen-inspired hit, Clueless, in which she played a "tragically unhip" high school girl who gets a makeover from Alicia Silverstone's lead character.
She portrayed a mentally ill teen in 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted, which earned star Angelina Jolie an Oscar.
She was the love interest of Eminem in the $116 million box office hit 8-Mile in 2002, after which her star soared to new heights on the back of some positive critical reviews of her performance.
She is a former girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher, who co-starred with her in 2003's Just Married. Following a few broken engagements, she married British screenwriter Simon Monjack in 2007.
After appearing in Sin City in 2005, she lent her voice to an animated penguin character in Happy Feet in 2006 and was the voice of Luanne Platter in the long-running cartoon TV series King of the Hill.
Murphy sang on DJ Paul Oakenfold's single Faster Kill Pussycat, which hit Number seven in the UK singles chart in 2006.
Murphy, who started performing before she was 10, saw herself as more than just an actor or singer - she sang in her own band. Above all, she saw herself as an entertainer, saying in a 2003 interview: "I've never really known anything different."
