Biography
Eddie Murphy is a cult American comedian actor, whose starry hour came in the 1980s. Such pictures as "48 hours", "Beverly Hills Policeman", "Trip to America", "Change places", "Dr. Dulittl" and many others made him a star of first magnitude. In addition, Murphy is known and as a musician who recorded several solo albums, and as a stand-style comedian.
Eddie was born in New York Brooklyn and became the second child in the family: his parents had already been the eldest son Charlie, also became an actor. The mother of the boys called Lillian, worked as a telephonist, and Father Charles Edward Murphy served in the police. Despite the fact that Dad Eddie died when he was only 8 years old, it is obvious that it was from his father who was inherited by acting talent - Charles at the amateur level acted in the theater, and also gave views as a comedian.
After the death of Father Eddie and his brother Charlie lived in a foster family, as the husband's loss for her mother turned out to be such a huge tragedy that she fell into the hospital. Later, the woman married an employee of the company for the production of ice cream Vernon Lynch and took the children.
The gift to mix people was manifested in Murphy in elementary school, so he was popular with classmates and even teachers. From 15 years old, Eddie has already performed in clubs with author's jokes and precisely as a stedap comic achieved her first recognition.
Thanks to Yumor, Eddie Murphy got on television and several years appeared in the mega-demanded weekly show "Saturday evening in the literal air", in which he performed several roles at once. And from this show program, the actor stepped into cinema.
Films
In 1982, Eddie Murphy made his debut in a 48-hour police comedy and instantly woke up famous. The following films "change in places", "The best way to protect", "Golden Child" and especially "Trip to America" made one of the most favorite actors of the 80s.
But the crime comedy "Policeman from Beverly-Hills" was achieved the greatest success, in which Murphy played the detective of Axel Fewie. Interestingly, the initially of this character was to be depicted by Sylvester Stallone, but for certain circumstances, the director and producers replaced him to Eddie, and, as time has shown, did not lose.
Later, the actor has a creative crisis. To overcome him, he himself sat in the director's chair and created the film "Nights Harlem". The picture had good cash charges, but was rigidly criticized by experts and even received the anti-strain "Golden Malina" for the worst scenario.
Recommended the location of Eddie Murphy to his Person, with the help of a grotesque comedy "Nutty Professor". In the new century, the actor continued to delight fans with his works: "Mansion with ghosts", "Trick of Norbit", "How to steal a skyscraper", "Thousand words". It is impossible to go around the only non-comedy role of Murphy in a career: in the musical drama "Girls Dreams", he depicted R & B singer James Earli.
Also, the actor created a completely brilliant ox voice in the cult cartoon "Shrek". This cartoon has more than once provided an actor with work. In 2004 and 2007, license plates came to the screens, also in 2007 a short christmas cartoon "Shrek Moroz, Green Nose" came out, and in 2010 - "Shrek forever". Then two more short-cast cartoon appeared in the same franchise: "Christmas shrektal Oske" and "exciting SRECEK stories."
Also, the actor performed a number of songs that sounded in the cartoon finals. In the first film, Eddie Murphy's voice was performed by the famous "I'm a Believer", and in the second actor, together with Antonio Banderas, who won the role of a cat in boots, quail Hit Rica Martin "Livin 'La Vida Loca".
But even the cash multiplication franchise could not return the comedian popularity.
In 2010, Eddie Murphy received the Antipremia "Golden Raspberry" in the anniversary nomination "The worst Actor of the Decade". The reason for the nomination, the organizers called the films "Adventures of Pluto Nash", "deceive all", "Imagine", "Meet: Dave", "Trick of Norbit" and "The Shaw begins" for participation in which actors have repeatedly nominated on the same Antipremia, but in classical nominations.
In 2012, Eddie Murphy recognized the most revalued and unprofitable star Hollywood. It turns out that the actor among all colleagues with similar fees brings the smallest revenues to film companies. According to Forbes magazine calculations, which made up this list, for each actor spent the dollar producers receive back an average of 2.3.
Also decisive facts in order to place Eddie Murphy at the head of the list of overvalued celebrities, the actor refuse to lead the prestigious Oscar Prize in the same year 2012. It was already announced that the actor will hold the 84th Oscar awards ceremony, but Eddie Murphy refused to speak.
The actor's reason for this act called the removal from the position of the producer of the program of the director Brett Ratner, who called Murphy to lead the ceremony. The fact that Ratnaner was removed for an inappropriate commentary in the direction of sex minorities, also did not add the actor points in the eyes of journalists.
In addition, the rated creators also recalled the fact that the latest films with the participation of the actor - "Thousand Words", "Meet: Dave" and "Imagine" - failed at the box office.
In the top five of the most unprofitable actors also included Catherine Heyigl, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock and Jack Black.
Whether the rating of the decisive last straw or the case came to this its own move, but after 2012 a long break began in the creative biography of Eddie Murphy.
Music
Eddie Murphy is not only a claimed comedian and a Hollywood actor. He pronounced himself and as a vocalist of The Bus Boys group, and as a solo performer. Some of his songs fell into a movie like soundtracks, for example, "The Boys Are Backin Town" sounds in the comedy "48 hours", and in the Cartoon film "Shrek" Eddie performed by Hit Ricky Martin "Livin 'La Vida Loca" with Antonio Banderas, as well as "I'm a Believe".One of the solo albums of the singer, "Comedian", released in 1983, was even awarded the Grammy Higher Music Prize. Murphy sang and paired with her friend, Pop singer Michael Jackson. They can be together in the video clips of the King of Pop Music "Remember The Time" and "Whatzupwitu".
Personal life
Until the first official Union, Eddie Murphy had not only a few star novels with colleagues, but also two children born out of marriage. McCnyli's flight gave birth to Him Erica's firstborn, and Tamara Hood is the second son of Christian.
In 1991, the actor began to meet with the model and designer Nicole Mitchell, who met in three years earlier. In 1993, a luxury wedding was played in the New York Hotel Plaza, and Eddie with Nicole became her husband and his wife. Over the next years, the spouses gave life to five children, but in 2005, Murphy and Mitchell parted, and a year later, the relationship was officially and finally.
The next beloved of the famous comewimate comewy was the ex-vocalist of the cult group "Spice Girls" Melanie Brown. They lived in a civil marriage for some time, a woman gave birth to Daughter Angel Iris Merphy Brown. Despite the fact that the child has his last name, Eddie did not want to recognize this baby for a long time and agreed only after confirming his fatherhood with the help of DNA test.
In 2008, the actor married the second time on the film industry Tracy Edmonds. The wedding took place on the island at Bora-Bor, but the marriage was concluded without official civil representatives, therefore, according to the laws, the United States was recognized as invalid. The last four years, Eddie Murphy meets with the young Page Butcher model, which at the beginning of May 2016 gave birth to him the daughter of Izi Murphy, who became the ninth child of the famous artist.
Eddie Murphy now
In 2016, Eddie Murphy returned to the screens, playing the main role in the Mr. Cherch drama. The film became an emptying of the story of American writer and video unit Susan McMartin, on the account of which at that time it was to participate in writing scenarios of individual episodes for popular TV series "Californication", "Two and a half people" and others.The action of the story and the film takes place in the 70s of the 20th century, which imposes an imprint on the relationship of heroes. Henry Joseph Church, whose role to play Eddie Murphy is a servant in the house with a single mother cancer. Mr. Church helps a sick woman, and also supports her daughter after the death of the mother, when the service life of the hero is already coming out.
The film received negative films of film critics. Problems The audience saw both in the plot and in submitting this plot. Many people would be more interesting to see the eyes of Mr. Chercha, and not through the prism of perception of a constantly asking hero about the help of the girl. Nevertheless, Eddie Murphy himself received positive feedback for his acting game.
In 2017, rumors appeared that Eddie Murphy began to shoot a biographical drama "Richard Praior: Did I say something?" And the comedies "Trino".
Filmography
- 1982 - "48 hours"
- 1983 - "swap in places"
- 1984 - "Beverly Hills Policeman"
- 1988 - "Trip to America"
- 1996 - "Nutty Professor"
- 1998 - "Dr. Dulittl"
- 1999 - "Clea Guy"
- 2006 - "Dream Girls"
- 2009 - "Imagine"
- 2011 - "How to steal the skyscraper"
- 2012 - "Thousand words"
- 2016 - "Mr. Cherch"
Discography
- 1980 - Minimum Wage Rock & Roll
- 1982 - American Worker
- 1982 - Eddie Murphy
- 1983 - Comedian.
- 1985 - Howed IT BE
- 1988 - Money Don't Make No Man
- 1989 - SO HAPPY
- 1993 - Love's Alright
- 1998 - All i Fuckin 'Know
- 2013 - Red Light