Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan Murphy , born the April 3rd 1961 is a Humoriste, producing Acteur and American.

Eddie Murphy became famous with the the United States thanks to its talents of humorist, discovered in his services with the emission Saturday Night Live and its spectacles Delirious (1984) and Raw (1987). Thereafter, its celebrity reached the world thanks to her roles in the cop of Beverly Hills , the Professor Foldingue , and more recently in Dreamgirls , for which it received a nomination with the Oscars of 2007 (best supporting role). The chain Comedy Central classifies it with the tenth rank of largest comic American of all times.

Biography

Youth

Eddie Murphy is born with Brooklyn, New York. His/her mother names Lilian Murphy and is telephone operator and his/her father is Charles Murphy, police officer. The Eddie young person is 3 years old when the couple divorces, (his father will be tragically killed 5 years later by his new partner) and lives with his/her mother and her brother Charles (today actor and scenario writer) in Brooklyn until the 10 years age. His/her mother remarie then with Vernon Lynch, a former boxer working as a foreman in a factory of ice creams and having already a fore-mentioned son Vernon. The family moves in Roosevelt, Long Island, where Murphy attends the school. Its taste for humor develops very early, and Murphy is already famous at the school for its imitations and its jokes which made fury at the pupils, but also in the teachers. It understands quickly that its humor can carry out it far and very early seeks to occur in front of a public. He is persuaded of the possibility of making career in the show business and is given in spectacle to the least occasion.

Beginnings in the stand-up and the comedy

He develops his clean sketches, based on imitations of high-speed motorboats such as Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, Al Green or Elvis Presley and occurs for the first time on scene in the center youth of its district in July 1976. The comic style of its beginnings is inspired largely by its idols Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, American humorists famous of which he will be regarded as being the heir.

It carries out its numbers in the centers youth and the bars realizing of small seals; the money thus piled up will enable him later to be registered at the higher technical training school of the district Garden City of New York. Its reputation is established quickly, and it at the time of occurring in the mythical comic club of the United States, Comic Strip, with New York. The owners of the club are very impressed by its talent and its precocity and decide to take its career in hand.

In 1980 (Murphy is just 19 years old), after very a short period of higher learning, it passes a series of hearings to take part in the comic program televised Saturday Night Live . He convinces the producers of the program of his talent and takes part in the season 1980 - 81. Its appearances are noticed, so that it belongs to the regular distribution as of the following season. At the time, Saturday Night Live saw its audiences eroding and the budget of production was limited. During the 3 years which follow, Eddie Murphy and its assistant Joe Piscopo take part in the majority of the last sketches to the antenna, and the program regains its public quickly, thus offering to Murphy a national notoriety, thanks to a gallery of characters become worships.

Career of actor

Rising personality in the United States thanks to its participation in Saturday Night Live , Murphy is not long in taking its first steps with the cinema. The realizer Walter Hill, who seeks an actor likely to give the counterpart to Nick Nolte in his new film, auditions Murphy which obtains then the role. 48 hours leaves in 1982. Despite everything, its interpretation does not allure the producers of film, and one needs the intervention of the producer Jeffrey Katzenberg (Co-creator of DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg) so that Murphy is not returned. It receives courses of comedy, exempted by David Proval (known for its role of Richie Aprile in the Soprano ), during turning, to help it to find aggressiveness necessary to the interpretation of its role of shady.

In 1983, Murphy divides the poster with daN Aykroyd in an Armchair for two , marking its first collaboration with John Landis (which will carry out later a prince in New York and the cop of Beverly Hills 3 ), which proves to be the second business success of its career in as many films and at 21 years a quotation with the Award Golden Globe is worth to him besides.

In 1984, it appears in the film a defense gun which does not meet its public but does not affect Murphy, whose implication in this film is limited to a role of support. It runs in the cop of Beverly Hills , in which it interprets the cop Axel Foley: the film becomes at the time one of 10 larger business successes of all times in the United States, propelling Eddie Murphy with the row of star.

In margin of its career of actor, Murphy continues his course of humorist and develops two spectacles in the the Eighties: Delirious (1983) and Raw (1990). Its humorous style interferes imitations and accounts stories more or less based on its life and carry the trace of the inspirations of Eddie Murphy: Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, which he in addition imitates in his spectacles. Its sketches most famous appears in a series of albums, with in particular Eddie Murphy (Live in Comic Strip) 1982 and Comedian in 1983, which gained the Grammy award better comic album. It made even music with a series of individual between 1985 and 1993 (See Singles).

In 1986, it holds the first role in the comedy the crowned Child of Tibet ( Golden child ) and takes again in 1987 its role of Axel Foley in the cop of Beverly Hills 2 . As for Golden delicious child , criticisms are not dithyrambic but the film is still once an enormous success.

In a prince in New York (Coming to America) (1988) it incarnates a African prince who goes to New York to find the ideal woman. In 1989, Murphy makes its beginnings as a realizer and carries out a dream while working with its idol Richard Pryor, in the nights of Harlem , whose action proceeds in the Harlem the Thirties.

Success in failures

The beginning of the the Nineties mark a deceleration of its career, its films carry out less receipts in the world: Mister the Deputy , Boomerang , and a Vampire in Brooklyn do not have discounted success. Even the Cop of Beverly Hills 3 does not make it possible to start again its career, this frankness having however been hitherto very popular.

In 1996 leaves the film the Professor Foldingue , which is a great business success. Murphy interprets there once again several different roles, with the assistance of special effects and make-up. This multiplication of its person in her films becomes a signature, and contributes to its success throughout its career, since a prince in New York in 1988 until the Professor Foldingue in 2000.

After Dr. Dolittle , Murphy alternates business successes (voice in Mulan , the Family Foldingue , Shrek , the Cop of San Francisco ) and the failures (paternal School, Perpète , Showtime , Espion and half ). Some of these films are resounding failures which chip the image of Murphy, with the image of Pluto Nash in 2002, which remains one of films to date having generated the most losses of the history of the cinema.

Eddie Murphy also multiplies the participations in projects of films and series of animation in the Années 2000 with the Shrek like the PJ' S and Father off the Pride , televised series in which it lends its voice.

In 2006, it interprets the role of James " Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls . This role enables him to take down the Golden Globe for the " better second rôle" and its first nomination to him to the Oscars of 2007 in the " category brings; better actor in a second rôle".

Personal life

Eddie Murphy is married with Nicole Mitchell Murphy with whom they had five children. He in addition recognized on August 4th, 2007 the paternity of a girl whom he had with the ex singer of the Spice Girl, Melanie Brown, named Angel Iris Murphy Brown and born on April 3rd, 2007.

Projects

In 2007, Murphy again lends its voice to the character of the Ass in Shrek the third , and runs in the comedy Norbit , in which he plays three different characters. In 2008, it should appear in a comedy of science fiction, Starship Dave , and Shrek 4 was announced right now. Moreover, Murphy announces to the resumption of its role of Axel Foley in the Cop of Beverly Hils 4 whose script would be in the course of finalization.

Catalog of films

Discography

Albums

  • Eddie Murphy (1982) (sketches)
  • Comedian (1983) (sketches)
  • How Could it Be (1985) (music)
  • So Happy (1987) (music)
  • Love' S Alright (1992) (music)

Individual

  • "Boogy In Your Butt/No More Tears" (Columbia, 1982) (sketches/music)
  • " Party All The Time" (featuring Rick James) (Columbia, 1985) (music)
  • " How Could It Be" (featuring Blake Hook) (Columbia, 1985) (music)
  • " Your Mouth One could Me" (Columbia, 1989) (music)
  • " Til The Money' S Gone" (Columbia, 1989) (music)
  • " I Has King" (Motown, 1993) (music)
  • " Whatzupwitu" (duet with Michael Jackson) (Motown, 1993) (music)
  • " Desdemona" (Motown, 1993) (music)

Anecdotes

  • a test DNA practiced on June 11th, 2007 confirmed that he was well the father of small Angel Iris, resulting from its relation with Spice Girls Melanie Brown alias Mel B. The baby was born on April 3rd, 2007, that is to say the same day as his father.
  • It has 5 children with Nicole Mitchell: Bria (1989 -), Miles (1992 -), Shayne (1994 -), Zola (1999 -), Bleated (2002 -).
  • It took again its role in more films than any other actor: the Cop of Beverly Hills 2 (1987), 48 hours more (1990), the Family Foldingue (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) and Shrek 2 (2004).
  • It is one of the last actors of the history of the American cinema to have signed a franchise agreement with a production company. Indeed, all its first films were produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
  • the main role in the cop of Beverly Hills in the beginning was intended for Sylvester Stallone, and the film was centered more on the action.
  • the main role in Golden delicious child, the crowned child of Tibet was intended for Mel Gibson. The film was in the more serious beginning, then the participation of Eddie Murphy involved the rewriting of the scenario towards a film more directed towards the comedy.
  • the producers subjected the transposition of the to him Flic of Beverly Hills in televised series. Murphy refused but signed to turn in the second opus.
  • In 1984, it turns in the Cop of Beverly Hills . The same year, the film S.O.S. Phantoms also builds a paperboard; Murphy would have refused the role of Winston Zeddemore in this film (interpreted finally by Ernie Hudson), which was written for him.

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