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Eddie Murphy is a popular comedian, movie star, and part-time singer who started life in the housing projects of Brooklyn. His parents divorced when Murphy was a toddler, and his father, a policeman, was killed by an angry girlfriend when Murphy was 8. Murphy and his older brother, Charles, were placed in foster care when their mother was hospitalized for a long period of time. By high school, Murphy was the class clown, and by age 17 he was performing comedy in clubs where a kid his age wouldn't otherwise have been allowed in. The smaller venues paid $25-$50 a night, and he soon worked his way to larger clubs, including New York's Comic Strip.
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Eddie Murphy is one of the many comedians that started out a succesful movie career with Saturday Night Live. It was in 1984 when he became a superstar with his portrayal of Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. After a succesful period he followed with a number of box office failures in the late '80s and early '90s... in the second half of the '90s he did star in the succesful Nutty Professor and Doctor Dolittle franchises and went on to voice Donkey in the Shrek franchise, incidentally making him the only actor to appear in all movies of 5 different franchises.
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Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown has intimated to Essence that her deadbeat baby daddy Eddie Murphy might still have some, you know, tranny hookers in his closet. The Spice alumna are sort of having a moment, aren't they? Except Sporty is probably teaching pilates or something. [R&M]
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Just two weeks after their wedding, Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds have split, according to People. The couple tied the knot on New Year's Day on a private island near Bora Bora in French Polynesia.
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Synopsis: Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's ... an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his new boss, Jacqueline, played by Robin Givens. In terms of things romantic, Jacqueline is nothing more or less than a female version of Marcus -- and now, for the first timeRead More
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Eddie Murphy is by far one of the more talented comedians to ever get up on stage. He was born as Edward Regan Murphy on April 3rd, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York. Eddie joined Saturday Night Live as a full time member in 1980 as a young 19 year old comedian. He went on to have a very memorable four year stint at Saturday Night Live. Not long after SNL were a string of hits including Delirious, 48 Hours, Raw and Trading Places. After a couple of slow years, Eddie Murphy's career was somewhat rejuvenated with the Beverly Hills Cop series.
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