Her claimed mobbed-up father, Angelo Bertolotti, was imprisoned and removed from Murphy’s life while.
She was still a preschooler in Edison, New Jersey, leaving his young daughter with a deep-seated need for affection and safety.
Murphy immersed herself in dance and theater to fill the vacuum left by her father’s absence. Her instructors remember a bright child.
Who was enamored with theater and cinema. In January 2010, her mother told Larry King, “She just came out of me a show person.”
In order for Murphy to continue her acting career, the mother and daughter, who were as close as sisters, relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
The little adolescent with the contagious laugh first appeared in modest roles in comedies and advertisements, such as Sister, Sister, and Boy Meets World, but quickly advanced to major film roles.
