[172] Two weeks later, he reached the final of the General Cup but lost 67 against Ali Carter. Despite Shaun's troubled childhood, he maintains a generally positive outlook on life, choosing to pursue medicine in the hopes of improving the lives of others. While Maguire was away, the referee and Murphy spoke before tournament director Mike Ganley arrived on the scene and docked Maguire a frame for technically not being ready to start at the scheduled time, which angered and surprised Maguire. [55] In the World Championship, he reached the quarter-finals, but fell victim to the so-called "Crucible curse", where no first-time champion has successfully defended the title at the Crucible Theatre,[56] when he was defeated 713 by Peter Ebdon.[57]. 13-7. Despite this, Shaun has genuine feelings for Carly as shown when she asked him to speak with her instead of ignoring Carly if he had feelings for her at all. [7], Murphy won his first professional tournament at the 2000 Benson & Hedges Championship, defeating Mark Davis 61 in the semi-final,[17] and Stuart Bingham 97 in the final, recovering from 25 down. While his mentor Glassman tells Shaun he cant be perfect all the time and that everyone makes mistakes, he also advises Shaun to find comfort in the people who love him, accept the loss and move on after learning from the mistake. Claire later spots Shaun and Carly sitting down with a bag of chips and going over more questions, drawing a smile from Claire. When Glassman says he hasnt and the boy will likely die, Shaun is very distraught, and Glassman suggests that perhaps this case is hitting home for Shaun because he is an expecting father and thus it affects him more than hed like to admit. However, Dr. Lim prohibits it since he is too emotionally attached. Glassman tries to make a deal with Shaun, realizing that Shauns decision has to do with wanting to follow Lea, so he tells Shaun he doesnt want him to leave and that he will promise to back off if Shaun stays in San Jose. The rivalry stems back years. As Shaun grows closer with his colleagues, he begins forming lasting friendships with people who come to understand him on a personal level. Even after Andrews gets Kerry to reveal the truth to her husband, she continues to refuse. In the second frame of this match, he achieved the fourth maximum break of his career after missing out on the maximum on two previous occasions earlier that dayin a match against Joe Swail where Murphy made a break of 129 before missing the blue ball, and in a match against Mark Williams where the maximum attempt ended on a break of 122 as he missed the green ball. Carly reminds Shaun of their first meeting when he threatened to throw a rock through the pathology lab window to get her to help him immediately and admits that she thought it was cute how much he cared and then she realized Shaun might be the most genuine person she has ever known when they started working together in pathology. Amateurs should not be allowed in professional tournaments, the end. While Shaun turns out to be wrong about Nakano having made a mistake, he is correct about there being a problem and he stops the surgery in time to save the patient. Afterwards, Andrews privately approaches Shaun and admits that he had been driven by his own doubts and anger over the repercussions of Andrews' choice to save Shaun at the cost of his own career. Lim later suffers an emotional breakdown over her condition, blaming Shaun for it and angrily declaring that she hates him. Shawn Murphy - Wikipedia As much as Shaun had loved Lea before, he loves her even more now and is happy that Lea is his wife. [215] He made a quarter-final appearance at the Masters in January where he was defeated by the same scoreline by Stuart Bingham. After their relationship resumes platonically, Shaun has trouble adjusting to Lea having a boyfriend and shows signs of possibly being in love with her. [186][187], Murphy reached the final of the China Championship in August, with victories over Zhang Anda, Ken Doherty, Anthony Hamilton, Stephen Maguire, Zhou Yuelong, and Ali Carter, but he was defeated 510 by Luca Brecel in the final. The surgical team from San Jose is given the hard choice to pick the few patients they can treat in the time they are there, having to turn some of them away for various reasons. Shaun is revealed to have a great degree of proficiency, if not fluency, in Spanish. However, after Shaun reminds Andrews of his own selfless act, Andrews becomes determined to save the man's face and speech even if they have to invent a new procedure to do it. In a quiet moment as they wait for their plane back to the States, Lea makes a spontaneous decision and proposes to Shaun, asking him to marry her on a bench outside the airport. In Forgive or Forget, Shaun suggests he and Lea take a camping trip in an attempt to have a change of scenery and provide some much needed reprieve. [128] He also participated at the Players Tour Championship, where his best results came at the Warsaw Classic and the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy, where he reached the quarter-finals, but lost 34 against Neil Robertson and 24 against Matthew Stevens respectively. Another example is how he treated Lea after her return due to being hurt over her leaving in the first place which made Shaun rude and mean to his friend. At the same time, Shaun urges Glassman to get a second opinion, more tests and more imagining to truly confirm the diagnosis. The player has posted several pictures with his children and other family members. When Lea says shes done with all the wedding planning, Shaun suggests they just get married at the courthouse the next day. Shaun comes to the realization that its inevitable that people will change, but that its most important that as a couple, you change in the same general direction. Birth Country: United Kingdom. Murphy won the match 102, completing his career Triple Crown. I am not picking on him as a young man, he deserved his victory. Shaun is letting Lea make all of the decisions in terms of their wedding theme, meanwhile struggling with a difficult medical case and a misdiagnosis he made that was all captured on camera. Why do Ronnie O'Sullivan and Shaun Murphy hate each other? [204] In September, Murphy also reached the final of the Shanghai Masters, an invitational tournament, after beating Lyu Haotian, Mark Williams, Jack Lisowski, and Mark Allen. Shaun is left torn between being a supportive friend and what the rules say he must do, leading Shaun to take away Glassman's driving license (Empathy). Carly eventually admits that she thought her friends might have trouble accepting Shaun, but realizes that she was wrong and apologizes. BBC Studios Signs First-Look Deal With Shaun Murphy's Big Owl Pictures Ironically, when the time comes, Shaun himself ends up conflicted on the matter and he is relieved when an alternative arrives at the last minute. During the first two episodes of season 4 (Frontline, Part 1 and Frontline, Part 2), Shaun and Lea struggle with the challenges of social distancing due to COVID-19, Shaun insisting to completely cease physical contact due to the increased risk of Shaun getting infected and passing it on to Lea. Resides in Glendora, CA. However, Shaun does finally accept the idea of Lea carrying a little growing human inside her when he accompanies her to her OB-GYN appointment and together they see and hear the babys heartbeat on the ultrasound. After Julianne crashes on the table, she believes that she has a near-death experience while Shaun believes it to only be a symptom of a second, hidden tumor that can't be detected on imaging. [8] He turned professional in 1998 at the age of 15. When the pain gets to be too much, Kerry breaks free and grabs Shaun's hand, but he chooses to allow it as it distracts Kerry from the pain. Nicknamed The Magician he is also a member of snooker's Triple Crown club. Shaun develops a good rapport with his residents despite his initial struggles with Jordan and Asher both learning from him and supporting him as Shaun learns from and supports them in turn. From the 2010/2011 season it shows the ranking at the beginning of the season. Shaun and Lea make the acquaintance of up-and-coming reality TV show producer Sophie in My Way, the niece of one of Shauns polio survivor patients living in an iron lung. Glassman admits that he thinks that she's right and he's furious at Shaun about it, but he had kept that fact out of his report as he'd felt that Shaun didn't deserve to have that mark on his career as a surgeon. As a result, Shaun didn't see or speak to his parents again until much later in life. [190] The pair faced each other again in the final of the UK Championship in December, but this time Murphy lost 510. He also mentions an interest in football in at least one episode. Ted he has Claire run a battery of tests on Lea. Shaun Murphy was born in Harlow, England in 1982 and became the snooker . Shaun Robert Murphy is the main titular protagonist of The Good Doctor. [85] Murphy and his wife separated in October, after three years of marriage.[86]. At the same time, Shaun's relationships with Lim and Glassman have both become strained following Lim's paralysis which may or may not have been as a result of his unauthorized surgery to fix Lim's liver. [107] He progressed to the semi-finals of the Paul Hunter Classic, the first European event of the season's Players Tour Championship minor-ranking series, but lost 24 to eventual winner Judd Trump. Freddie Highmore is an English actor who came to prominence for his roles in Five Children and It (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Shauns ASD causes him to act somewhat erratically, not able to follow the thief's commands, which leads to a young woman getting shot. Progressing to week 7 of her pregnancy, in Spilled Milk, Lea is struggling with hormonal changes and morning sickness. Shaun becomes a little hyperfocused on getting them out of that dry spell, suggesting several different options and ideas to get their love life back on track. [77] In the China Open, he defeated Mark Selby 63 in the semi-finals[78]his sixth semi-final appearance in the past seven ranking events[79]but lost 910 to Maguire in the final. In "Shrapnel," Shaun, Asher and Danni treat Charlie, a military reenactor with shrapnel in his arm. The 100 Character Nicknames 74%. Andrews realizes that Lim assigned the case to Shaun due its apparent ease and Beth's friendly demeanor and warns Lim about coddling Shaun. [156] In the first round of the 2013 World Snooker Championship, Murphy defeated Martin Gould 105 to advance to the second round, where he faced Graeme Dott, winning 1311. Upon returning home, Shaun is greeted by Glassman who has received a call from Shaun's long-estranged mother: Shaun's father has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and may only have a few days left to live. He hasn't done that. [100][224] Murphy also makes collective criticisms of his fellow professionals for not attending events and has branded other players' concerns over prize money as a joke. However, during surgery to fix it, Shaun discovers that the bride has extensive cancer. Family (1) Trade Mark (2) Straight cue action Long potting Trivia (20) Friends with snooker player Mark Selby. [119] He progressed to the semi-final of the China Open, where he lost 16 against Trump. He suffered another defeat in the final against Ronnie O'Sullivan, this time losing 911. In "Risk and Reward," Shaun communicates to the mother of a child with severe birth defects that her actions during pregnancy may have caused her childs defects. At the same time, in the aftermath of his confrontation with Lim, Shaun appears to be secretly struggling, although he does his best to hide it. The episode Parenting introduces an interesting new dynamic with Leas parents coming to visit San Jose to see their daughter and meet her new boyfriend. Shaun is of course extremely worried and wants to participate in the surgery, quoting that hospital policy would technically allow him to since he and Lea are not married. Seeing all the colleagues around him either quitting their jobs, he comes to the realization that he doesnt want to keep working at St. Bons if none of his friends are there anymore, so he convinces both Lea and Glassman that its the right thing for him to stand up and fight together with all of them. A large part of this is that Lim's situation reminds Shaun of Steve's death and his inability to save his brother and Shaun's guilt over it. Chambers, sharing some of his own experiences and struggles with being an autistic surgeon and a difficulty with making friends. Related To Denise Murphy, Alice Murphy, Jessica Murphy, David Murphy, Larry Murphy. At the same time, Shaun, Lim and Melendez are recommended for license suspension to the medical review board by an investigator for the governor for their actions and behavior during the quarantine. Shaun also discovers that someone else moved into Leas old apartment a fellow named Kenny who is slightly shady with potentially malicious intentions that Shaun is completely blind to. When both mother and baby suffer complications, Shaun treats them both at the same time with the help of Kellan. However, Shaun's diagnosis is proven to be correct, saving Sadie's life and Han publicly credits Shaun as the pathologist who made the discovery. Even though hes rejected the notion in the past, he knows now that Dr. Glassman is more of a father to him than his biological one ever was, and he finally finds a way to express that to Glassman while the latter tries to help Shaun get dressed up in his tux. As Lea fears for the worst, word comes that someone else has been found. At the same time, Shaun attempts to lose his virginity to Carly, but has trouble going all the way with her, seeking advice from Glassman who distances himself from the issue on Debbie's advice. While he cares a lot about her, he struggles with her renewed presence in his life, now living in fear that she could leave again like she did the first time. In "Breakdown," Han's intervention ends Shaun, Lim and Melendez's troubles with the medical review board, but he continues to refuse to transfer Shaun back to surgery. They talk it out and at the end they hug with Shaun telling Lea he loves her and Lea telling Shaun that she appreciates his honesty. Shaun tries to work through the loss of their child, which affects him in unexpected ways. [46], He reached the quarter-finals of the inaugural, non-ranking Northern Ireland Trophy before being defeated 45 by Neil Robertson.