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 parents: Who are his father and mother?
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He held a paintbrush in one hand and a script in the other while he spent the next 20 years on the East Coast pursuing a career in theatre.
Thomas trained at Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts, and spent years performing in off-Broadway theatres in New York, where the New York Times and other publications highly praised his performances in Sam Shepard productions.
