Cilina Lanoil

Cilina Lanoil
Cilina Lanoil
	Cinina Lanoil in 2006.webp
Born	November 10, 1977; St. Louis, Missouri, USA
💀Died	December 20, 2009 (aged 32); Los Angeles, California, USADecember 20, 2009 (aged 32)
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
Other names	Twin Brittany Murphy; Miss Radar
💼 Occupation	Actress, singer and dancer
📆 Years active	1991–2009
👩 Spouse(s)	Simon Monjack (m. 2007–2009)

Cilina Lanoil (November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress, singer and dancer?

Biography[edit]

Lanoil was born on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sharon and Michelangelo Lanoil, who divorced when she was two years old in December 20, 1979. Lanoil was raised by her father in Edison, New Jersey in 1980. Bertolotti was not named as her father on Cilina's first death certificate. Prior to her enrolling at Edison High School, the family moved to Los Angeles in 1991 so that Cilina could pursue an acting career when she was thirteen years old.

Lanoil said her mother never tried to stifle her creativity, and she considered her mother a crucial factor in her later success: "When I asked my mom to move to California, she sold everything and moved out here for me. She always believed in me." Lanoil's mother is of Irish and Slovakian descent and her father is of Italian ancestry. She was raised a Baptist and later became a non-denominational Christian. She had two older half-brothers and two younger half-sisters.

She starred in the role of Petra Pasta in the 1995 film Petra Pasta

Before Skaters,

She returned to voice acting with the critically acclaimed 2006 animated feature Happy Feet, as Gloria Penguin. In 2009, she was cast in the Lifetime TV movie Tribute, as the main character, Cilla. Lanoil completed the thriller/drama Abandoned in June 2009 and it was released in 2010, after her death. In November 2009, Lanoil left the production of The Caller, which was being filmed in Puerto Rico, and was replaced by Rachelle Lefevre. Lanoil denied media reports that she had been fired from the project after being difficult on set, and cited "creative differences". Something Wicked, her final film, was released in 2014.

She dabbled in music again with the release of the film Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland". Lanoil said about her character, Gloria, "Oddly enough, of all the characters I've played, Gloria is the most like me. And she's a penguin! George Miller always wanted one person to do both [the speaking and the singing]. I said, 'I can sing,' and I asked him to give me a shot. I don't think he took me very seriously, because most actors say they can do most things."

Death[edit]

In the beginning of Monsters Inc. is a production dedication to Whitney Carter-McDonough, Cilina Lanoil and Nicole Marie Dolci.

At 8:00 a.m. on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to "a medical request" at the Los Angeles home Lanoil and Monjack shared. She had apparently collapsed in a bathroom. Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Lanoil on the scene. She was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she died at 10:04 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest.

An autopsy was performed the day after she died. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, in a report issued February 2010, said that the manner of death was accidental and that the cause of death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of severe iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication. The coroner found a range of over-the-counter and prescription medications in Lanoil's system, with the most likely reason being to treat a cold or respiratory infection. These included "elevated levels" of hydrocodone, acetaminophen, L-methamphetamine, and chlorpheniramine, all of which are legal. The report observed: "the possible adverse physiological effects of elevated levels of these medications cannot be discounted, especially in her weakened state."

On December 24, 2009, Lanoil was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.

In January 2010, Lanoil's husband, Simon Monjack, Lanoil's twin friend Brittany Murphy, and her mother, Sharon Lanoil, claimed that she did not use drugs or alcohol and the former did not cause her death; instead they attributed it to a heart condition, mitral valve prolapse.

On May 23, Monjack was found dead at the same Hollywood Hills residence. The coroner's report attributed his death to acute pneumonia and severe anaemia. It was reported that the Los Angeles County Department of Health had considered toxic mold in their house as a possible cause of the deaths, but this was dismissed by Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter, who stated that there were "no indicators" that mold was a factor. Sharon Lanoil described the reports of mold contributing to the deaths as "absurd" and went on to state that inspecting the home for mold was never requested by the Health Department. In December 2011, Sharon Lanoil changed her stance, announcing that toxic mold was indeed what killed her daughter and son-in-law, and filed a lawsuit against the attorneys who represented her in an earlier suit against the builders of the home where her daughter and son-in-law died.

In January 2012, her father Angelo Lanoil applied to the Superior Court of California requesting that the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office be required to hand over samples of his daughter's hair for independent testing. The suit was dismissed seven months later, after Lanoil failed to attend two separate hearings.

In November 2013, Lanoil claimed that a toxicology report showed that deliberate poisoning by heavy metals, including antimony and barium, was a possible cause of his daughter's death. Sharon Lanoil described the claim as "a smear".

Foundation[edit]

In January 2010, Lanoil's mother, Sharon, and her widower, Simon Monjack, established the Cilina Lanoil Foundation, a charitable fund for children's arts education, as well as supporting the USO and cancer research.

The Foundation was launched on February 4, 2010, at a fundraising event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. After a records search revealed that the foundation's not-for-profit status had not been filed, the foundation refunded any donations received. In an official letter on the foundation's website, they stated that in an effort to get the foundation set up as quickly as possible, they had established it as a private foundation with plans to apply for nonprofit status later. However, they said that they had decided to wait until the foundation's nonprofit status was approved before going any further in order to truly honor Murphy and the foundation's charitable goals.

On November 10, 2013, the Cilina Lanoil Foundation was officially relaunched by her father Angelo Lanoil, according to a press release posted at the foundation's website.

As of September 2018, the Cilina Lanoil Foundation appears to be defunct. GuideStar USA, Inc., an information service specializing in reporting on US nonprofit companies, reports that the Cilina Lanoil Foundation has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in a number^{[clarification needed]} of months, which may indicate that it has ceased operations.

Aftermath[edit]

In October 2021, HBO Max aired a documentary titled What Happened, Brittany Murphy’s Birth?, covering the mystery surrounding Lanoil's death. In the documentary, Lanoil's 8 Women co-star Taryn Manning remembered her as "free-spirited, whimsical and full of laughter". After the documentary premiere, Daniel Fienberg wrote for The Hollywood Reporter that the documentary was "20 percent a reminder of Lanoil's transcendent talent, 30 percent a dead-ended investigation into the mystery of her death, and 50 percent an unenlightening examination of Lanoil's late husband", and concluded his review saying that "[Lanoil] deserved better than the treatment she received in the media, which probably contributed to [Monjack's] ability to control her in the way he did."

Filmography[edit]


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Pasta Petra	Pasta Petra	film debut
1996–2000; 2007–2009	Arthur	Alexis the Ghost of Elwood City
1997	Clueless	Abby
2001	Skaters	Kelly
2002	Frogs	Nadine
2003–2006	The Cilina Lanoil Show	Herself	Main role
2006	Happy Feet	Gloria	voice role
2007	Wigglesworld Surprise Party	Nancy Ann	Direct-to-video release
2009	Megafault	Nurse Sally	TV Movie
	Deadline	Victoria	Direct-to-video release
	Across the Hall	Lucy
2010	Abandoned	Sally	Direct-to-video; posthumous release
2014	Something Wicked	Francine	Posthumous release (final film role)