Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1958) is an American stage, film and television actress.
She is known for her role as Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and her stage roles in musical theatre. Murphy has won two Tony Awards as Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion and The King and I. She also starred in Wonderful Town, among other musicals.
Murphy, one of seven children, was born in Corona, N...
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Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1958) is an American stage, film and television actress.
She is known for her role as Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and her stage roles in musical theatre. Murphy has won two Tony Awards as Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion and The King and I. She also starred in Wonderful Town, among other musicals.
Murphy, one of seven children, was born in Corona, New York, the daughter of Jean (née Fink) 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.
Murphy has been married to actor and singer Shawn Elliott since 1990. She is the stepmother of Elliott's two daughters. In 2005, they adopted a daughter from...
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