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Name
  
Anthony Murphy

Role
  
Film actor

Education
  
New College, Oxford


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Awards
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Anthony Murphy (born 1956 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian-born English painter, with strong Irish connections. He exhibits regularly in Mayfair, London and Dublin, Ireland [1]

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Murphy was a child-actor, his roles including the eponymous hero in the British television serial, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971), which won Emmys for Murphy as 'Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries' for his role as Tom Brown and as 'Best Miniseries' after it was screened by PBS in 1973. Despite the critical acclaim, he never again worked as an actor.

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Murphy attended New College at Oxford University from 1970-1975 to study Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology. He then married his first wife and moved to Ireland, working as a potter and an aerial photographer. But after four years Murphy divorced, and subsequently he returned to school to study law. Despite lacking passion for the law, Murphy pursued a career as a corporate lawyer, first in England then in Paris, France. In Paris he met and married his second wife. Murphy began to paint “to relieve the boredom of corporate law.”[2] Murphy’s first painting exhibition in 1991 in London was a great success, and his colorful Gauguin-esque paintings became highly desirable.

In 1992, Murphy and his new wife relocated from Paris to a large (overgrown, unsanitary) country house near Carcassonne in the south of France, where unfortunately, on account of Murphy's inability to keep a woman, they divorced (many suspect this may be because of closeted homosexuality, but this is not verifiable). He continues to paint and exhibit work (whether people want to buy it though, is another matter entirely).

References

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