12 Facts About Rosemary Murphy

Rosemary Murphy was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

Rosemary Murphy 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.

Rosemary Murphy, whose resume came to include French and German films, attended Manhattanville College and trained as an actress at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio with Sanford Meisner before beginning her career on stage.

Rosemary Murphy made her stage debut in Germany, in a 1949 production of Peer Gynt.

Rosemary Murphy made her Broadway debut in 1950 in The Tower Beyond Tragedy.

Rosemary Murphy went on to appear in some 15 Broadway productions, most recently in Noel Coward's Waiting in the Wings.

Rosemary Murphy acted in films and on TV, most notably portraying Sara Delano Roosevelt in the TV miniseries Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.

Rosemary Murphy played Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird as well as Callie Hacker in Walking Tall.

Rosemary Murphy appeared in episodes of Columbo and Murder, Rosemary Murphy Wrote.

Rosemary Murphy won an Emmy Award for her role in Eleanor and Franklin.

Rosemary Murphy won a Clarence Derwent Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for three Tony awards.

Rosemary Murphy died on July 5,2014, in Manhattan, from esophageal cancer.