Brittany Murphy.

Brittany Murphy was born on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. She pursued an acting career when she asked her mother to move to Los Angeles and she accepted. She started her career when she was fourteen, on a TV series. She did many movies, novels and series, including as a voice actor. She starred Clueless (1995); Girl, Interrupted (1999); Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999); Don't Say a Word (2001); the TV adaptation of the novel The Devil's Arithmetic (2001); 8 Mile (2002) and Uptown Girls (2003) as well as many lesser-known films, such as Spun (2002). In 2004, she starred in the romantic comedy Little Black Book, and the critically acclaimed Sin City (2005). She starred in two Edward Burns films: Sidewalks of New York (2001) and The Groomsmen (2006). She voiced the character Luanne Platter on the Fox animated sitcom King of the Hill and the penguin Gloria, from the movie Happy Feet. Her last movie was Abandoned, that is scheduled for release in 2010.

She participated of a band called Blessed Soul and she appeared in some music videos, like Luscious Jackson's "Here". She also signed as the spokes model for a jeans brand. Brittany was married with Simon Monjack, who lived with her and her mother on the last years of her life.

On December 20, 2009, she collapsed in a bathroom. Firefighters tried to resuscitated her, they transported her to a hospital, where she dead after going into a cardiac arrest.  The police stated that the cause of her death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication.