Annie Murphy
The daughter of two teachers was at the end of her rope in the mid-2010s: “My house had just burned down, I hadn’t booked a job in two years, I had $400 in my bank account and I’d absolutely s— the bed on my very first screen test out in L.A.,” she once explained.
Two days after the fire, she got a chance to audition for Schitt’s Creek, the role that made her famous.
Since then, the 36-year-old’s achievements include starring in her own series, Kevin Can F**k Himself, and a mindbending recent episode of Black Mirror — in which she played herself.
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