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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 was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has ... enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", …
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Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an American actor and comedian who has won the Golden Globe Award in 2006 and was nominated to the Academy Award in 2001. He was an usual member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has worked a little as a singer too.
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In 1980, the then unknown Murphy badgered talent coordinator Neil Levy to give him a shot on Saturday Night Live. Levy repeatedly rejected him, saying that the show already had a full cast. But Murphy continued pleading with Levy, saying that he had several siblings banking on him getting a spot on the show. Levy finally conceded and allowed him an audition. On the basis of the audition performance, Levy then began advocating to new executive producer Jean Doumanian to let Murphy on the show. After seeing Murphy's audition for herself, she too began pleading with the network to allow Murphy on the show.
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The next year Murphy left Saturday Night Live after his fourth season. His next film... titled Best Defense and costarring Dudley Moore, was, stated Richard Grenier of Commentary, a "failure," causing some people to wonder if Murphy was a "mere novelty, possibly just a flash in the pan." But Murphy followed Best Defense with a blockbuster hit movie, Beverly Hills Cop, which had a lead role originally slated for actor Sylvester Stallone. It became Murphy's first starring role, and according to Grenier, writing in the New York Times, it broke box-office records: "Beverly Hills Cop has quite stunned Hollywood. grossed more than its next five competitors combined."
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Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor and comedian. Murphy ranks as the number one grossing film star in history, having a total of 33 films to date, his films grossing over $3.4 billion in the US alone, averaging $104 million per film.[1] He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has ... enjoyed a minor singing career.
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Not long after graduating from Long Island's Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, Murphy became a regular performer on Saturday Night Live, birthing famous characters like the black version of Fred Rogers known as Mr. Robinson. His comedic skills translated in films like the Beverly Hills Cop series and The Nutty Professor. As a skilled voice actor, Murphy has voiced important characters in Shrek (the donkey), Mulan (Mushu the dragon) and The PJs (Thurgood Stubbs). Murphy has dabbled in music — recording an album even — but he turned on his singing voice 110 percent in 2006's Dreamgirls as a character based loosely on Rick James, arguably the best performance of his career.
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