Maureen "Mauro" Murphy (20 January 1940 – 13 December 2018)[1] was a British-born Australian comedian, actress, and celebrity who enjoyed some popularity in the United States during the 1980s, where she made several appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
[2][3][4] An article written at the time of her rise in popularity states Murphy was "born in England and raised in Rhodesia and Australia".
[8][1] Murphy's early career started off in Australia where she would perform an act of bringing an audience member up on stage and doing a charcoal sketch of them.
She appeared in the movies Tall, Dark, and Handsome, as well as Return to Green Acres, with her most notable film acting credit in Roxanne.
[4] She used her slightly outsider perspective as an Australian woman that became very anglicized to critique American culture through a feminist lens.