Selected awards: Emmy Award nomination for outstanding comedy performance and outstanding comedy writing for Saturday Night Live Grammy Award nomination for best comedy album, 1982, for Eddie Murphy Golden Globe Award and Image Award, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), both 1983, both for Trading Places Grammy Award for best comedy album, 1984, for Eddie Murphy: Comedian Golden Globe Award nomination for best actor, Star of the Year Award, and People ’s Choice Award for favorite all-around male entertainer, all 1985, all for Beverly Hills Cop.Īddresses: Home -Englewood, NJ.
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Began performing as a stand-up comedian at New York City comedy clubs while in high school later worked at numerous clubs on the East Coast regular cast member of television series Saturday Night Live, 1980-84 actor appearing in films, including 48 HRS., 1982, Trading Places, 1983, Best Defense, 1984, Beverly Hills Cop, 1984, The Golden Child, 1986, Beverly Hills Cop II, 1987, Coming to America, 1988, Harlem Nights, 1989, Another 48 HRS., 1990, Boomerang, 1992, and The Distinguished Gentleman, 1992 appeared as a stand-up comic in concert films, including Delirious (HBO special), 1983, and Raw, 1987 has released comedy and music albums. Education: Attended Nassau Community College.Ĭomedian and actor. Murphy made his first stage appearance in 1976, when, at the age of 15, he hosted a talent show at At a Glance …īorn Edward Regan Murphy, April 3, 1961, in Brooklyn, NY son of Charles (a police officer) and Lillian (a telephone operator) Murphy stepson of Vernon Lynch (a foreman at an ice cream factory) married Nicole Mitchell, Machildren: Isabella, Miles Mitchell. At Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, he became an expert at “ranking ” -trading witty insults with his classmates. ”īefore long, Murphy began working on comedy routines after school, and developing his comedy skills became his passion. His world experience comes from the tube. Film director John Landis later told Corliss that Murphy ’s unique point of view is rooted in his early perceptions of TV: “I grew up hooked on TV, but Eddie is TV. ” He also developed impressions of comics like Laurel and Hardy and Jerry Lewis. I used to do Sylvester the Cat ( ’thufferin ’ thuccotash ’) all the time.
“My mother says I never talked in my own voice -always cartoon characters, ” he related to Gene Lyons of Newsweek. Growing up, Murphy spent a great deal of time watching television, practicing impressions of such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry. Shortly thereafter the family moved to the predominantly black middle-class suburb of Roosevelt, Long Island. When Murphy was eight years old, his father died, and a year later, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Breyer ’s ice cream factory and part-time boxing instructor. Staying with her was probably the reason I became a comedian. ” He told Richard Corliss of Time, “Those were baaaad days. Later, when his mother was forced to spend an extended period in the hospital, he and his older brother Charles were taken care of by a woman whom Murphy recalled as “a kind of black Nazi. When Eddie was three years old, his parents divorced. His father, Charles Murphy, was a New York City policeman and amateur comedian, and his mother, Lillian, a phone operator. ”īorn on April 3, 1961, Murphy was raised in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York. ” And Time named him “ Hollywood ’s uncontested box-office champ. Newsweek called him “the hottest performer in the land, ” for whom “the sky seems to be the limit.
He has starred on late-night television, toured before sell-out audiences, recorded a couple of best-selling comedy albums, and had leading roles in several blockbuster movies. ” The enormously popular entertainer is well on his way to turning that youthful boast into a statement of fact.
Eddie Murphy once told his tenth grade social studies teacher, as reported in Rolling Stone, “I ’m going to be bigger than Bob Hope.
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