Biography for
Ryan Murphy (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

Trivia

While a guest on her radio program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," Murphy told interviewer Terry Gross that he got his start in Hollywood while still a journalist when he sold a script called "Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn?" to Steven Spielberg during the 1990s. Murphy said that Spielberg was interested in the script in part because he had directed Hepburn in her last film, Always (1989). As of the time of the "Fresh Air" interview (May 2009), the script has never been produced.

During high school he was president of a Meryl Streep fan club.

His favorite move of all time is Network (1976).

Personal Quotes

Ah, my famous cologne. It's because when I was growing up, I could only afford that cheap Halston stuff.

Face it, I'm legend. It's happened.

[on Network (1976)]: I just loved it. I remember seeing it as a kid and being absolutely fascinated because it's people doing terrible things and yet you understand why they're doing them. I was very inspired by that when I made Running with Scissors (2006)". It was the same idea.

I think it's only natural to be influenced by the filmmakers and things that you gravitate to when you were younger. I think my first seminal television moment was my grandmother forcing me, sobbing and screaming, to watch 'Dark Shadows'. She would make me sit through it to toughen me, I think. And when I was bad I had to watch 'The Waltons'.