Actor Erin Murphy, who played Tabitha Stephens - the pint-sized witch who wiggled her nose
into everyone's hearts on the popular 1960s sitcom Bewitched - is all grown up!
And she's been pretty busy following her role on the show.
"People would come up and say, 'What beautiful babies.
They should be in television.'"
Murphy dove into the entertainment industry as a baby, landing her first job in a Folgers
coffee commercial at just 11 months old.
And she wasn't even 2 years old when she and her fraternal twin Diane landed the role of
Tabitha, in 1966.
But it was immediately clear that Erin was the one who loved the cameras.
She told ABC News,
"From the time I was a baby, I [loved] it.
I liked the lights and loved being on my set.
My sister used to cry when they would bring her on set.
Even now she hates it."
"Isn't she beautiful?"
"I think she's beautiful."
As the twins got older, Erin assumed the role entirely until the show wrapped in 1972.
Murphy has fond memories of her Bewitched days and loved growing up on the set, remarking
that her on-screen parents Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York and, later, Dick Sargent were
like real parents to her.
The young actress was also very close with Agnes Morehead who played her grandmother
on the show.
"I just thought she was beautiful and colorful and fun.
Her favorite color was purple and everything in her dressing room was purple."
Murphy told ABC,
"[Agnes] was probably my favorite person on the show in retrospect.
[…] I had grandparents who lived in other states I didn't get to see and she didn't
have grandchildren, and we had a really great, loving relationship."
The series finale aired in 1972, when Murphy was just 8 years old.
But she kept busy and continued working, mainly in commercials.
She told Life After 50,
"I did over 80 commercials up until I was in junior high.
By then, I kind of lost interest, because I was into things like cheerleading and school
activities."
From then on, Murphy maintained a pretty normal life, attending El Toro High School in Lake
Forest, California.
There, she was a cheerleader and was even crowned homecoming queen.
But, as she told The Tolucan Times,
"I think that my 'normal' might be different from other people's 'normal.'
[…] I'm friends with people from The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, The Waltons, just about
any TV show you can name that has kids."
Since the years she spent as a child star, Murphy has tried her hand at a variety of
professions, including working as a casting director, fashion stylist, acting teacher,
and hostess at a Karaoke club.
But, ultimately, she found her way back to the business in reality TV.
She first found success as a correspondent for Fox Reality Channel, and later appeared
on Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling.
She told The Tolucan Times,
"I had never even watched wrestling before I did the wrestling show.
It was scary and wonderful and awful and kind of everything you would imagine and I'm really
glad I did it."
Murphy was also a contestant on RuPaul's Drag U, a spinoff of the hit series Drag Race,
where she got schooled by some of the most iconic queens in the game.
Having handpicked Pandora Boxx as her professor, Murphy admitted that she learned a lot during
her time on the show, explaining to Socialite Life,
"I mean, you kind of go in there and it's all for good fun, but I have to say a lot
of the drag tricks translate well to the red carpet, so I kind of got some posing pointers."
But Murphy's passions extend far beyond show business.
According to A&U Magazine, she has been an AIDS advocate for years.
The outlet also noted that her Bewitched co-star, Elizabeth Montgomery, was also a longtime
AIDS activist and that the two often attended fundraising events together.
As a mother of six boys, family has always been a priority for Murphy.
And when her son was diagnosed with autism, Murphy became an invested advocate for the
cause.
"I've been very active in…autism charities and legislature and basically everything I
can do to kind of promote awareness."
She also proved there's nothing she won't do for her kids when she bought an alpaca
ranch as an outlet for her son.
She blogged,
"Our family first got involved with alpacas as a form of pet therapy for our little boy
with autism.
As parents of a child with special needs, we were also thinking of a long-term career
option for our son, since animals are his greatest love."
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