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Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy
(born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn,
New York City) is an Academy
Award nominated, Golden Globe
Award-winning American actor
and comedian. He has also
enjoyed a minor singing career,
and was one of the most popular
cast members in the history of
Saturday Night Live, on which
he was a regular from 1980 to
1984. In a 2005 poll to find
The Comedian's Comedian, he was
voted amongst the top 50 comedy
acts ever by fellow comedians
and comedy insiders.
Murphy has received Golden
Globe nominations for best
actor in a comedy or musical
for his performances in Beverly
Hills Cop, Trading Places, and
The Nutty Professor. In 2007,
he won the Golden Globe for
Best Supporting Actor for his
portrayal of fictitious soul
singer James "Thunder" Early in
Dreamgirls., and received a
nomination for the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor
for the same role.
He is a well-known voice actor
and voiced Thurgood Stubbs in
The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek
series and the dragon Mushu in
Disney's Mulan. In some of his
films, he plays multiple roles
in addition to his main
character, including Coming to
America, where he played four
radically different characters,
the Nutty Professor films,
where he played much of the
Klumps clan, and 2007's Norbit.
Another trademark of Murphy is
his deep, infectious, and
considerably goofy laugh.
As of May, 2007, with the box
office success of both films
"Norbit" and "Shrek the Third",
Eddie Murphy has now surpassed
Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson
to claim the throne as
history's #1 all-time box
office movie star. Mr. Murphy's
grosses as a leading man now
total over $3.35 Billion
Dollars at the North American
box office alone.
 Personal
life
Murphy
has donated money to the
AIDS Foundation, the
Martin Luther King Jr.
Center, various cancer
charities and $100,000 to
the Screen Actors' Guild's
strike relief fund. He
also reinvests heavily in
his own organizations. In
addition, toward the end
of 2006, he and fellow
Roosevelt High School
alumnus Julius "Dr. J"
Erving quietly gave over a
million dollars to the
ailing school district to
assist with the
continuation of the sports
program.
Murphy was rumored to have
dated Whitney Houston before
meeting his wife. He began a
longtime romantic relationship
with Nicole Mitchell after
meeting her in 1988 at an NAACP
Image Awards show. They lived
together for a year and a half
before getting married at the
Grand Ballroom of The Plaza
Hotel in New York City on March
18, 1993. They had five
children together, but in
August 2005, Mitchell filed for
divorce, citing "irreconcilable
differences." The divorce was
finalized on April 17,
2006.
On May 2, 1997, around 4:45am,
Eddie Murphy picked up pre-op
transexual prostitute Atisone
Seiuli Shalimar (called
"Shalimar") on Santa Monica
Boulevard in West Hollywood.
This area was to be inside a
"prostitution abatement zone"
designated by the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies pulled over Murphy's
Toyota Land Cruiser, arrested
his passenger for outstanding
warrants, and released Murphy.
The incident made tabloids and
late night talk show monologues
for months afterwards.
Following his divorce from
Mitchell, he dated Melanie
Brown, who stated that her
child is Murphy's. When
questioned about the pregnancy
in December 2006, Murphy told a
reporter, "I don't know whose
child that is until it comes
out and has a blood test. You
shouldn't jump to conclusions,
sir." Brown gave birth to a
baby girl on Murphy's 46th
birthday, April 3, 2007. Murphy
is presently dating film
producer Tracey Edmonds, former
wife of Kenny "Babyface"
Edmonds.
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