Biography
Omar Hashim Epps, who played the black doctor of Forman in the medical telecommunication body "Dr. House", not only the actor, but also a musician, composer and producer. The eppt star made work on the set. Unlike colleagues on the series about a brilliant diagnostic and his team, Omar Epps in Russia became known long before the release of the "Dr. House" screens.
In the mid-1990s, a cult youth comedy "Do not threaten to the Southern Central, drinking juice in myself in the quarter" broke records of views on video in the countries of the post-Soviet space. And the multi-sieuled medical drama helped the cinema film. Nevertheless, Omar Epps complains that star roles though added recognition, but the audience is still hard to remember his name.
Childhood and youth
In the veins of Omar Hashim, Afro-Arab blood flows. Eppes was born in the summer of 1973 in the most populated area of New York - Brooklyn. Omar, two of his older brothers and sister Mom raised one. The woman worked as a school principal and possessed the powerful character.
Omar Epps showed creative talents in childhood. The boy became interested in rap and performed in the group, which he created with the elder brother. The 10-year-old Omar Hashim visited a music school, wrote poems and scenarios.
The teenager was firm in intention to associate her future life with music, but the defining was the influence of a friend of Marlon Wayans, who became a famous comedian actor. Like Marlon, Omar entered the New York School of Arts "Fiorello H. Laguardia", where he learned the Azam acting craft.
Films
The cinematic biography of Omar Epps started in 1992: a beginner actor debuted in the Ernest Dickerson Dicerssian drama (Other Name "Juice"), where the major role was played by the cult harlendian hip-hop singer Tupac Shakur. This is the tragic story of difficult Harlem teenagers. Character eppt call Q, or Quinsi.
Subsequently, Omar Epps more than once had to reincarnate in problem guys conflicting with the law. In the fantastic militant "Dawn", the actor entrusted the role of the second plan, and in 1993, the EPPS played a negative character in the dramatic tape "Program", where his partner for shooting was James Kaan.
The following year, the premiere of Sicvel Comedy "Higher League" took place. In the continuation of the popular hit 1989, the previous actors appeared, except Wesley Snipes. He was replaced by Epps. Sicvel did not pay off at the box office and did not reach the ratings before the original source, but in terms of acquiring experience gave Omar, because the young actor was lucky to work on the site in Charlie Tine and Tom Berenger.
After the failure of the sequel in the film Epps, the Dark Strip ended in 1996 began. Dark-skinned resident of Brooklyn pulled a happy ticket: American director Paris Barclay invited Omar to his comedy project "Do not threaten to the Southern Central, drinking juice in my neighborhood."
The parody and satirical project Barclay became cult. Working with the brothers of the Wayans clan brought Omar epps fame. In the same year, the artist was involved in the Medical TV series "Ambulance" ("ER"), where he played a restless trainee of the surgical department of Dennis Ganta. The hero of Eppes appeared in several episodes, but the audience was remembered. A dismissant project on weekdays of the reception office of the Chicago clinic was loved by the viewers, and producers removed 15 seasons. Omar Epps starred in 3 and 4 seasons "ER".
The beginning of the new century brought Omar Epps a new wave of success. The actor appeared in the tragicomedy "Breakfast for Champion," where the main roles got Bruce Willis and Nick Nita. The film came to the nomination of the main prize "Berlinale".
Secure success in the film industry Omar Epps managed, playing a bright role in the criminal drama of the iconic Japanese director Takeshi China "Brother Yakuza". Epps in tandem with a bits of Takeshi (he also Takeshi Chitano) played key characters.
In the same year, the premiere of the thriller "Dracula 2000", in which Epps appeared in the image of Marcus, and next year an African American played the Hero of the Comedy Barry Sonnenfeld "Great Troubles".
Slava covered Omar Epps in 2004, when the medical drama series "Dr. House" came to the screens. Serious and conscientious Dr. Eric Foreman became the favorite of millions of television viewers. Film critics also highly appreciated the game of the actor, twice making his name in the NaAcp Award nomination.
The series went to screens until 2012. In 2007, the EPPS became the Winner of the Image Award Prize. In a star company with Hugh Laurie, Robert Shona Leonard, Liza Edelstein actor hit the top of the film college. For his novel with the thirteenth (Character Olivia Wilde), the viewers followed by a special trepidation.
From 2004 to 2012, Omar Epps, occupied on the shooting "Dr. House", managed to play in the Melodrame "Alfima", released in 2004. This is a romantic comedy, where Epps appeared in the star company Jude Low, Marisi Tome and Susan Sarandon. The world premiere of the tape took place in the fall of 2004, the Russian audience saw the film in the spring of 2005.
After the filming of the shooting "Dr. House", Omar Epps offered a major role in the scientific fiction drama "Resurrection" Aaron Zelman. The producer of the series spoke Brad Pitt. The project premiere took place in 2014 and received high ratings from the viewers. The dramatic tape was extended by the second season, in which eppt appeared again.
Omar Epps has its own producer company Brooklyn Work Films.
Personal life
Helds does not like to advertise a personal life and does not interview this topic. It is known that from the novel with a girl whose name holds by the actor secretly, he has a daughter of Ayanna. In her fate, Omar participates and appears with Aanna in public events.In the early 2000s, Omar Epps got acquainted with R & B singer Kameysh Spiwi, a vocalist of the Total group. In the summer of 2004, the pair was born daughter Kay Marie. In 2005, Omar and Keysh got married, and in two years they had the son of Amir.
Omar Epps now
The American actor continues to be filmed in the series. In 2016, the premiere of the shooter of the shooter of the director John Avalanin took place. On the base of the tape, the novel of the English writer Stephen Hunter. The project received a warm reception of viewers and film critics. In December 2016, the arrows extended to the second season, which came to the screens in the summer of 2017.
In the "Arrow" Omar Epps played an agent of the secret service, the former captain of the spending groups of Isaac Johnson. The main roles in the tape went to Raan Phillippa and the Cynthia Addai-Robinson.
Filmography
- 1992 - "Authority" ("Juice")
- 1994 - "Dawn"
- 1994 - "Program"
- 1994 - "Higher League 2"
- 1995 - "Higher Education"
- 1996 - "Do not grief to the Southern Central, drinking juice in my neighborhood"
- 1996-1997 - "Ambulance"
- 1997 - "Creek- 2"
- 2001 - "Breakfast for Champions"
- 2000 - "Dracula 2000"
- 2004-2012 - "Dr. House"
- 2004 - "Non-Fate"
- 2004 - "Alfima"
- 2014 - "Resurrection"
- 2016 - "arrows"