DANNY MURPHY
www.Talent Pages/DANNY
Personal details
  • Height: 4' 11",
  • Eye colour: Brown
  • Shoe size: >5
  • About me
    Wallsend-on-Tyne, United Kingdom
    Danny Murphy was born in 2003/2004. He is fifth-generation deaf on his father's side of the family. Murphy lives in Wallsend in England with his parents Kelly and Charles and his older brother and younger sister. His parents are deaf, and his siblings are hearing.Murphy himself is fluent in British Sign Language.

    By the time Murphy was eight years old, he had acted in a short film featuring skits. He later starred in the hit BSL Zone kids' series, Up For It, and auditioned to host a CITV programme aimed at deaf and hard of hearing viewers. Murphy also created comedy videos on YouTube and has received 1.5 million views. Murphy was nominated for the Chronicle Champions Awards 2017 in the Young Role Model category, and in was on the Princess Diana Roll of Honour 2017 (nominated by the British Deaf Association).

    In 2017, the producers of The Parts You Lose initiated an international casting search, supported by Deaf West Theatre, for a hard of hearing actor and cast Murphy as the film's deaf boy.

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