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In her first starring role, in The CW crime comedy-drama, In the Dark (2019–2022), she plays a blind woman. For this part, she learned skills for coping with blindness such as using a guide dog and sending text messages with voice commands. She shadowed a blind person, on whose life the show is based, to observe how she did ordinary things. [5]
An irreverent blind woman in her twenties, Murphy, drifts through life in a drunken haze. She has only two friends—Jess, her understanding roommate, and Tyson, a teenage drug-dealer who saved her from a violent mugging.
The decision to cast a legally blind actress to play the role of the main character Marie-Laure was praised for its breakthrough representation of blind and low-vision performers. [23] Critics also praised the casting choice of Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure and the visuals, but felt it fell short of capturing the depth and nuance of the ...
Despite an impressive résumé that included 1995's Clueless, 1999's Girl, Interrupted, 2003's Just Married and 2004's Little Black Book, Murphy never acted like the famous star she was. Instead ...
An 11-year-old girl who is blind and has a brain tumour said she had fulfilled her "dream" of presenting her own radio show. Betsy Griffin, from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, was diagnosed with the ...
Dr. Scheinin performed Murphy's autopsy and listed pneumonia as the Uptown Girls star's primary cause of death, with iron-deficiency anemia and "multiple drug intoxication" from prescription and ...
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
Murphy's character is painfully reserved, and the actor's restrained performance captures how the church kept locals silent as they hid pregnant girls brought to them by embarrassed parents.