Eddie Murphy

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Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy, born April 3, 1961 is a comedian, actor and producer in the USA.

Eddie Murphy became famous in the USA through his talents as a comedian, discovered in his performance at the show Saturday Night Live and his performances Delirious (1984) and Raw (1987). Thereafter, his fame has reached the world through his roles in The Beverly Hills Cop, Professor Foldingue (Nigaud professor in Quebec), and more recently in Dreamgirls, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 2007 ( best supporting role). The channel Comedy Central ranks the tenth largest U.S. comic of all time.

Biography

Youth
Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother is called Lilian Murphy and is operator and his father is Charles Murphy, policeman. The young Eddie was 3 years old when the couple divorce, (his father is tragically killed 5 years later by his new companion) and lives with his mother and his brother Charles (now actor and screenwriter) in Brooklyn until the age 10. Her mother remarries then with Vernon Lynch, a former boxer working as a foreman in a factory and ice cream that already have a son named Vernon. The family moved to Roosevelt, Long Island, where Murphy is attending school. His taste for humour is developing very early, and Murphy is already famous at school for his imitations and jokes that were the rage among students but also among teachers. It includes fast as his humour can go a long way and seeks early to occur before an audience. He is convinced of the possibility of making a career in show business and gives himself to show the slightest opportunity.

Early in the stand-up comedy and
He develops his own sketches, based on imitations of stars such as Lionel Richie, Bill Cosby, Al Green and Elvis Presley and occurs for the first time on stage in the youth centre in her neighborhood in July 1976. The comic style of his debut draws much of his idols Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, famous American comedians which will be considered as the heir.

It executes its numbers in youth centres and bars with small stamps, the money raised will later join the Superior Technical School of Garden City district of New York. His reputation was quickly, and it has the opportunity to occur in the club comic mythical USA, the Comic Strip in New York. The owners of the club are very impressed by his talent and precocity and decide to take his career in hand.

In 1980 (Murphy was just 19 years), after a very short period of higher education, he spends a series of hearings to participate in television comedy program Saturday Night Live. He convinced the producers of the programme of his talent and participates in the 1980-81 season. His appearances are noticed, so it is part of the regular distribution as soon as next season. At the time, Saturday Night Live saw its audiences erode and the production budget was limited. During the 3 years that followed, Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo acolyte participate in most sketches passed to the antenna, and the program quickly regains his audience, giving Murphy a national reputation, thanks to a gallery of characters become cults.

Career actor
Personality rising to the USA through its participation in Saturday Night Live, Murphy was soon to take its first steps in cinema. The director Walter Hill, who is looking for a player that would give the reply by Nick Nolte in his new film, hears Murphy who then gets the role. 48 hours fate in 1982. Nevertheless, its interpretation can not seduced producers of the film, and we need the intervention of producer Jeffrey Katzenberg (co-founder of DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg) so that Murphy was not returned. It receives over comedy, delivered by David Proval (known for his role as Richie Aprile on The Sopranos), during the shooting, to help find the aggressiveness needed for the interpretation of his role as malfrat.

In 1983, Murphy shared the bill with Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places, marking his first collaboration with John Landis (who later carry out a prince in New York and The Flic Beverly Hills 3), which proves to be the second commercial success of his career in so many films and it is indeed 21 years a summons to the Golden Globe Award.

In 1984, it appeared in the film A defence cannon that does not meet his public, but does not affect Murphy, whose involvement in this film is limited to a supporting role. He wished the poster in The Flic Beverly Hills, where he interprets the cop Axel Foley: the film then becomes one of the 10 largest commercial successes of all time the USA, propelling the Eddie Murphy rank of star.

Alongside his acting career, Murphy continued his career as a comedian and develop two shows in 80 years: Delirious (1983) and Raw (1990). His style mixes humorous imitations of stories and tales more or less based on his life and bear the traces of inspirations Eddie Murphy: Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby, he imitates elsewhere in his performances. His most famous sketches found in a series of albums, including Eddie Murphy (the Comic Strip Live) 1982 Comedian and in 1983, which won a Grammy Award for best comedy album. He even music with a series of singles between 1985 and 1993 (See Singles).

In 1986, he takes the leading role in the comedy Golden Child - L'Enfant sanctity of Tibet (The Golden Child) in 1987 and resumed his role as Axel Foley in Flic The Beverly Hills 2. As for The Golden Child, critics are not but praise the film is once again a huge success.

In a prince in New York (Coming to America) (1988), it embodies an African prince who travels to New York to find the ideal woman. In 1989, Murphy made his debut as a director and achieved a dream by working with his idol Richard Pryor in Harlem Nights, in which the action takes place in Harlem 30 years.

From success to failure
The early 90 marks a slowdown in his career, his films make less revenue in the World: Mr Deputy, Boomerang, and A Vampire in Brooklyn do not have the desired success. Even The Flic Beverly Hills 3 will not revive his career, this franchise had previously been very popular.

In 1996 the film sort Professor Foldingue (Nigaud professor), which is a great commercial success. Murphy plays again several different roles, with the help of special effects and makeup. This multiplication of himself in his films becomes a signature, and contributes to its success throughout his career, from a prince in New York in 1988 to Professor Foldingue (Nigaud professor) in 2000.

After Dr. Dolittle, Murphy alternates commercial success (voice in Mulan, The Family Foldingue, Shrek, Metro) and failures (Ecole father, Perpète, Showtime, Spy and a half). Some of these films are failures which écornent Murphy's image, the image of Pluto Nash in 2002, which remains to this day one of the films that generated the most losses in the history of cinema.

Eddie Murphy also multiplies the stakes in projects of films and animation series in the years 2000 with Shrek and the PJ's and Father of the Pride, television series in which he lends his voice.

In 2006, he played the role of James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls. This role allows him to win the Golden Globe for best supporting role "and gives him his first appointment to the 2007 Oscars in the category" Best Actor in a Supporting Role."

Personal life
Divorced from his first wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy with whom he had five children after 13 years of living together, Eddie Murphy is currently married to film producer, Tracey Edmonds since 1 January 2008. He also acknowledged on August 4, 2007 paternity of a daughter he had with the former singer of Spice Girl Melanie Brown, known as Angel Iris Murphy Brown, born April 3, 2007.

Projects
In 2007, Murphy lends his voice to the character of Donkey in Shrek the third, and keep the poster in the comedy Norbit, in which he plays three different characters. In 2008, it should appear in a science fiction comedy, Meet Dave, and a Shrek 4 has already been announced. In addition, Murphy announced the resumption of its role as Axel Foley in Flic The Beverly Hills 4 whose script is being finalized.

Filmography

* 1980: Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels (TV show)
* 1982: 48 hours (48 Hrs.), Walter Hill
* 1983: Trading Places (Trading Places), John Landis
* 1984: A defence cannon (Best Defense), Willard Huyck
* 1984: The Flic Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills Cop), Martin Brest
* 1986: Golden Child - L'Enfant sanctity of Tibet (The Golden Child), Michael Ritchie
* 1987: The Flic Beverly Hills 2 (Beverly Hills Cop II), Tony Scott
* 1987: Eddie Murphy Raw by Robert Townsend
* 1988: A prince in New York (Coming to America), John Landis
* 1989: What's Alan Watching?, Thomas Schlamme (TV)
* 1989: Common Threads (archive footage) by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
* 1990: Mandela in America (documentary)
* 1989: The Harlem Nights (Harlem Nights), Eddie Murphy
* 1990: 48 hours more (Another 48 Hrs.), Walter Hill
* 1992: Boomerang, Reginald Hudlin
* 1992: Mr MP (The Distinguished Gentleman), Jonathan Lynn
* 1993: Dangerous: The Short Films (video) (clip Remember The Time), John Singleton
* 1994: The Flic Beverly Hills 3 (Beverly Hills Cop III), John Landis
* 1995: A Vampire in Brooklyn (Vampire in Brooklyn), Wes Craven
* 1996: Professor Foldingue (The Nutty Professor), Tom Shadyac
* 1997: Metro (Metro), Thomas Carter
* 1998: Mulan, Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook (vocals)
* 1998: Dr. Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle), Betty Thomas
* 1998: Mister G (Holy Man), Stephen Herek
* 1999: Pèrpete (film), Ted Demme
* 1999: American Pimp Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes
* 1999: Bowfinger, King of Hollywood (Bowfinger), Frank Oz
* 1999: Stubbs (The PJs), Eddie Murphy, Steve Tompkins and Larry Wilmore (TV series) (voice)
* 2000: The Family Foldingue (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps), Peter Segal
* 2001: Shrek, Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (voice)
* 2001: Dr. Dolittle 2, Steve Carr
* 2002: Showtime, Tom Dey
* 2002: Pluto Nash (The Adventures of Pluto Nash), Ron Underwood
* 2002: Spy and a half (I Spy), Betty Thomas
* 2003: School father (Daddy Day Care), Steve Carr
* 2003: Shrek 4-D, Simon J. Smith (vocals)
* 2003: Le Manoir haunted and 999 ghosts (The Haunted Mansion), Rob Minkoff
* 2004: Shrek 2, Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon (voice)
* 2004: Father of the Pride, Jeffrey Katzenberg (TV series) (episode Donkey)
* 2004: Far Far Away Idol, Simon J. Smith (video) (voice)
* 2006: Dreamgirls, Bill Condon
* 2007: Norbit, Brian Robbins
* 2007: Shrek the Third (Shrek the third), Chris Miller & Raman Hui (voice)
* 2008: Call me Dave (Meet Dave), Brian Robbins
* 2009: The Flic Beverly Hills 4 (Beverly Hills Cop IV), Brett Ratner

Albums

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

Singles

* "Boogie 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 Crystal Blake) (Columbia, 1985) (music)
* "Put Your Mouth on Me" (Columbia, 1989) (music)
* "Til The Money's Gone" (Columbia, 1989) (music)
* "I Was A King" (Motown, 1993) (music)
* "Whatzupwitu" (duet with Michael Jackson) (Motown, 1993) (music)
* "Desdemona" (Motown, 1993) (music)

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