5 Annie Murphy movies and TV shows that showcase her range as an actor 

Annie Murphy is one of those actors where the more you sit with her work, the more you realize she can swing in any direction she wants. Annie Murphy has proven this again and again by saying yes to roles that do not look similar on the surface. So, how do you explain her range to a person who might only know her for one role? You do it by showing the actual work.

These 5 picks below show Murphy in totally different temperatures, which is why it’s worth checking these out.

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5 Annie Murphy movies and TV shows that showcases her range as an actor

1] Schitt's Creek:

Her role as Alexis on Schitt’s Creek is one of the roles that the world knows her for by default. But Schitt’s Creek did more than just make Annie Murphy famous. This is the show that actually formed her screen identity, which in turn brought her to the limelight.

The writing on the show made Alexis out to be weirdly emotional and specific. Over here we have the Rose family who’s lost everything, and the only thing left is a town that was once bought as a joke.

The show stood on uncomfortable moments, small-town humor, and unexpected maturity. Annie Murphy plays Alexis with that same balance. Her job was not just to do slapstick comedy. Alexis was someone who never expected to rebuild a life from dust. So, she had to live in this in-between space. The audience could laugh at her choices but still believe she was facing change without a life manual.

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2] Kevin Can F**k Himself:

This AMC title is almost two shows inside one. When Annie Murphy’s Allison is around her husband, the world is shot in bright light and old sitcom style. But the minute she is away from him, the camera becomes more grounded and more serious.

Murphy has to carry two different forms of storytelling within the same show, which is interesting. The non-glamorous part is that this project forces her to face what emotionally abusive behavior looks like. This is the show that required her to drop the sitcom comfort and show how self-doubt and deep tiredness can sit inside someone’s face, even when she barely says a word.

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3] Nine Perfect Strangers (Season 2)

The show returns but this time with new guests. The group lands at a wellness retreat in the Alps. The director Masha is still chasing her mission, but this season pushes both Masha and her guests even harder. The experiment is bigger, more dangerous, and the history between the characters starts to leak out.

Annie Murphy plays Imogen, who checks in as one of the new faces. She is one piece of a very large group story, but her smaller moments matter too. This makes you realize that Murphy can walk into a show with a larger ensemble, play someone who isn’t that exaggerated of a character, and still be a standout actor.

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4] Black Mirror (Joan is Awful):

This episode is a meta spiral. Annie Murphy plays a woman who wakes up and sees that Streamberry has turned her life into a show. The system uses her daily data, then creates a version of her, and that version becomes content inside another layer.

This is exactly the type of work that proves Annie Murphy can anchor a sci-fi satire without losing the grounded, everyday tone. She has to play fear, shock, humiliation, and then fight back. Watching the episode is wild because it is funny but also creepy because of how real that algorithm would feel.

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5] Fingernails:

This movie studies love like a lab experiment. Couples give a literal fingernail and get a percentage number that tells them whether their love is real. The whole setup is clinical but also low-key emotional.

Annie Murphy plays Natasha, and while she may not be the lead, she still plays someone who gets observed and graded. This is range here as well. It shows us that Murphy can play a character who is not at the center but instead is a person who sits inside someone else’s conflict and still holds weight.

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If you rewind and look at each project, you will see the growth. Annie Murphy has picked projects that ask different things from her, a sitcom, a dark AMC show, a group retreat, a Black Mirror episode, and a film that studies couple data.

These five projects together make up a clear point: there is range here because Annie Murphy has constantly stepped toward work that does not repeat the same shape twice.

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