Katy Murphy

Katy Murphy, a Scottish actress and teacher, comes from Glasgow and has worked mostly in television, often for the BBC and ITV, across crime and children's drama. She attended Glasgow University, where she discovered theater. She rose to prominence as Janice Toner in John Byrne's Tutti Frutti (1987), a BBC Scotland series starring Robbie Coltrane that won six BAFTAs. She appeared again for Byrne in Your Cheatin' Heart (1990), with Tilda Swinton. Her other television credits include Takin' Over the Asylum and A Mug's Game (1996), while she also worked on Mike and Angelo, Spatz, B&B, The Steamie and The River, and appeared in Casualty and Agatha Christie's Poirot. She took the role of Jenny Wren in a BBC Two version of Our Mutual Friend. Later work includes Prime Suspect (2006) and Honest (2008). In 2018 she starred in Donna Franceschild's short film Bridge, and on radio she played Janet in Adventures of a Black Bag. She teaches part time.