Background
Murphy, Rosemary was born on January 13, 1927 in Munich, Germany. Came to the United States, 1939. Daughter of Robert D. and Mildred (Taylor) Murphy.
Murphy, Rosemary was born on January 13, 1927 in Munich, Germany. Came to the United States, 1939. Daughter of Robert D. and Mildred (Taylor) Murphy.
Murphy, whose résumé came to include French and German films, attended and trained as an actress at Catholic University of America in Washington, District of Columbia, and in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio with Sanford Meisner before beginning her career on stage.
She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in Eleanor and Franklin (1976). The family left Germany in 1939 due to the onset of World World War World War II Education Stage She made her stage debut in Germany, in a 1949 production of Peer Gynt. She made her Broadway debut in 1950 in The Tower Beyond Tragedy.
She went on to appear in some 15 Broadway productions, most recently in Noël Coward"s Waiting in the Wings (1999).
She died on July 5, 2014, in Manhattan from esophageal cancer.