![]() “I had it all the way together for years and years and years and then what happened with movies is they started offering you so much money to do stuff that I wound up doing, you know what that’s like, you’re just there and ‘You want to give me that much money to do that sh-t? Okay.’” “I’ll tell you what happened to me,” Eddie replied. The 59-year-old actor opened up about taking a step back from acting on an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show on Friday (March 12).ĭrew asked, “You had such a succession of these epic films, you know you were so young do you ever come down from those periods of time where you had hit after hit and you’re working?” Here’s why he stepped away from acting for nearly a decade.Įddie Murphy is looking back at his career. His five other children - daughters Bella, Zola, 21, Shayne, 26, Bria, 31, and Myles, 28 - are with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy. He also has son Christian, 30, with Tamara Hood, and daughter Angel, 13, with Spice Girls member Mel B. His oldest son Eric, with Paulette McNeely, is 31. He and fiancee Paige Butcher welcomed their son Max in November of 2018. “My kids are smart and are trying to do stuff. My kids are so great, normal people - and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid,” he went on to proudly say. I don’t have any like ‘Oh you are the one.’ I don’t have any of that. “When you hit a crossroads moment or you have got some s-t, you think, ‘Well, what is best for my children?’ If you go that route then you never make a bad decision,” he continued. “The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that s-t is over…I found over and over again and along the way I realized that if you put your children first you never make a bad decision,” he went on to say. “I am going to be 60 in April and I have all these babies. A devoted father, Murphy currently resides in New Jersey with his wife Nicole and their three children.The 59-year-old Coming 2 America star got candid in an interview with The Mirror about his ten children, calling them the “center of everything.” He is also at the forefront in Hollywood for providing opportunities and positions in the industry for Black actors, writers, producers, directors, and other "behind-the-camera" talent. Center for Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the AIDS Foundation. Murphy lends support to a number of humanitarian causes and organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. He has hosted the Emmy, Grammy, MTV, and Academy Award shows. In 1988, Murphy received the People's Choice Award for Best Comedy Actor "Entertainer of the Year" NAACP Image Award and The Tree Of Life Award presented at the Black Oscar nominees dinner. Murphy’s last three feature films include Shrek 2001, Dr. The worldwide grosses of these movies total more than $1 billion for his company, Eddie Murphy Productions, which is based in New York to develop and produce film, television, and concert tour projects. Another 48 Hrs, Beverly Hills Cop II & III, and Boomerang, The Distinguished Gentleman, and Vampire In Brooklyn followed. ![]() Other big-screen credits include Coming To America 1988 and Harlem Nights 1989, which marked Murphy's debut as a director and producer. His triumphant return to the comedy stage in a nationwide concert tour resulted in Paramount Pictures' Raw. Eddie Murphy Comedian brought Murphy the 1984 Grammy for Best Comedy Album of the Year. Eddie Murphy received Grammy nominations as Best Comedy Recording and Best R&B Instrumental Performance for the instrumental version of the hit single Boogie Your Butt. A comedian first and foremost, in 19 his original stand-up material was released on two comedy LPs, Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy: Comedian. ![]() Then came The Golden Child and Beverly Hills Cop II in 1987. While only 21 years old, Murphy's made his third film, Beverly Hills Cop in 1984. Another early movie was Trading Places with former "SNL" star Dan Akroyd. Murphy made his film debut in 48 Hrs co-starring Nick Nolte. At 19, Murphy landed an audition for the new cast of TV's Saturday Night Live (SNL) and was signed as a featured player for the 1980-81 seasons.ĭuring his four years on "SNL," Murphy created unforgettable characters such as prison poet Tyrone Green, the grown-up Gumby, and TV huckster Velvet Jones. Soon thereafter, Murphy headed to the renowned The Comic Strip. He graduated from Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, NY, and was voted "Most Popular.” Murphy was writing and performing his own routines at youth centers, local bars, and at his High School auditorium in suburban Long Island by the age of 15. His mother, Lillian, was a telephone operator. He is a Black actor, director, writer, and comedian.įrom Brooklyn, NY, Edward Regan Murphy’s father was a police officer who died when young Eddie was three. *On this date in 1961, Eddie Murphy was born.
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