Thomas Francis Murphy was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1953. Early in his adult life, he supported himself by working on factory floors and in dairy barns.
He has worked as a freelance theatre critic, an EMT, a hard hat diver, and a social worker. He spent a very long time painting houses.
When Murphy was in his forties and living in Little Rock, Arkansas, he decided to sign up for an acting class. The class changed the course of his life.
Thomas Francis Murphy children: Does Thomas Francis Murphy have children?
There are currently no records confirming whether he has a child or not.
Tom Hanks, Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keanu Reeves, and others have worked with Murphy since he moved to New Orleans in 2013.
These actors appeared in Paul Greengrass’ News Of The World, True Detective, and 12 Years a Slave. Murphy has starred as the lead in the movies Same Kind of Different as Me and Free State of Jones alongside Mathew McConaughey