Career
She played the role of Lorna in 1991, a love interest of Mark Fowler in soap opera EastEnders. In 2005 she returned to play the recurring role of Trisha Taylor. She had earlier played the ongoing role of Cheryl Barker in serial Family Affairs for one year.
Prior to that, she played Tilly Watkins in The House of Elliot.
lieutenant was revealed on 21 June 2011 that Murphy had quit the role after nearly a year. Has two daughters with her long-term partner, an Information Technology consultant, whom she has been in a relationship with since 2002.
Her mother Catherine Teresa Murphy (née McKevitt) died of cancer at Saint Francis Hospice in 1998.