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Brittany Murphy was a singer, model, and famous American actress. She starred in such movies as Clueless, Uptown Girls, and Happy Feet. She voiced Luanne Platter in King of the Hill and her final film, Abandoned, was released direct-to-video on August 24, 2010. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 10, 1977. She landed her first acting job at the age of 13 and she made her Broadway debut in 1982. In late 2002 Murphy began dating Ashton Kutcher, her co-star in Just Married. in 2005 she became engaged to Joe Macaluso, a production designer she met on the set of Little Black Book. Then in 2007 she married British screenwriter Simon Monjack. For the last three years of her life they lived together with her mom in the same house. On December 20, 2009 the L.A. fire department responded to a medical request at the home of Murphy. She had apparently collapsed in the bathroom. She was pronounced dead on arrival at 10:04 after going into cardiac arrest. An autopsy was performed the next day and her death certificate listed the cause of death as deferred. On February 4, 2010 the Los Angles County coroner stated that the primary cause of her death was pneumonia. Brittany Murphy was buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills on December 24, 2009. Five months after Murphy died Monjack was found dead at the same Hollywood Hills residence.