More bad news for fans of recently-canceled TV show King of the Hill: Brittany Murphy, the 32-year-old actress who played Luanne Platter in the show, has died of sudden cardiac arrest, according to multiple reports. Murphy, who had a brief spurt of mainstream popularity in the middle of the decade, was best known to cinemaphiles as Tai (in the movies) and Jasmine (on TV) from Clueless–but genre fans will know her for her roles in Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs, Sin City and King of the Hill.
Reports originated early this afternoon from celebrity gossip website TMZ, and after about an hour of other news sites citing that report, the information was finally verified by CNN, who confirmed it with the Los Angeles Couny Coroner’s Office.
December 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
In Clueless, she was Tai…..Not Jasmine. You really don’t need to search many places to get your information correct. FAIL
December 20th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Very sad.
December 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
King of the Hill is genre?
December 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pm
There’s a general interest among our readers in animation; “Family Guy” and “Simpsons,” both mainstream, non-comics, non-genre animated shows that appeared on the same programming block as “King of the Hill,” get plenty of coverage around these parts.
December 21st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
So sad!!!
Do we know what’s the cause? heart disease? drugs? …
poor lil’ thing..she was a good actress.