Eddie Murphy is one of the most versatile and popular Hollywood male actors. The actual name of Eddy Murphy is Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy. Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy was born on April 3, in the year 1961. He was nominated for the Academy Award and is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Awards. This American actor and comedian has the record of being the highest grossing film star ever and all his 33 films taken together has grossed $3.4 billion alone in the US.
He became a regular cast in the show Saturday Night Live which ran from 1980 to 1984, and has been appreciated as a stand-up comedian. The actor also had a small career in singing. Eddie Murphy was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the “best actor in a comedy or musical” category. His nominations for the Golden Globe came several times for his roles in the movie Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and The Nutty Professor. In the year 2007, he was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the movie Dreamgirls. He was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for the same role.
Eddy Murphy has worked as a voice actor in many movies. These include characters like Thurgood Stubbs in film The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek movie series and for the character dragon Mushu in the Disney production called Mulan. He played multiple roles in many of his films. This he calls as his tribute to actor Peter Sellers. He played multiple roles in films like Vampire In Brooklyn, Coming to America, the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger, Klumps clan, and Norbit.
The actor was born in Brooklyn, New York to Lillian who was a telephone operator. Charles Edward Murphy was a transit police officer besides being an amateur comedian. Eddie Murphy is also a good singer and a musician. |
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His hit singles are "Party All the Time", "Put Your Mouth on Me", "Boogie In Your Butt" and "Enough Is Enough". In 1990s he recorded an album called Love's Alright and also performed in a video with Michael Jackson in "Whatzupwitu". After a downfall his image began to recover in 1996 when he acted in The Nutty Professor. Then success followed as he did more comic roles. Besides these, Murphy has also done remarkable charity works.
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