Among his best-known films are “The Nutty Professor”, “Doctor Dolittle”, “The Prince Seeks a Wife” and “A Chair for Two”. Here is the story of Eddie Murphy, the great comedian.
Who is Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy, nickname of Edward Regan Murphy (New York, April 3, 1961) is an American comedian.
Growing up with her mother Lillian saw father chili abandon them when Eddie is only three years old. From a young age he shows his passion for comedy and acting so at 19 years ago the first appearance on TV.
He is invited to the well-known TV show “Saturday Night Live” of NBC and here he leaves some beautiful memories until the 1984 season. He understands that comedy is his genre and so he heads in this direction for the following years.
The film career
In fact, he takes part in series such as Beverly Hills Cop with which he receives the Golden Globe nomination for best actor. It also proves very versatile managing to be appreciated as voice actor as in the case of “Shrek” where he lends his voice to Donkey and in “Mulan” where he plays Mushu.
Plus its great interpretative ability it can be seen in the choice of making him have more than one role within his own films. This technique appears in “The Nutty Professor” and in “The Nutty Professor’s Family” which continues the story. In 2011 he starred together with Ben Stiller in the film “Tower Heist – High level shot” and then moved away from the cinema a few years and returned in 2019 with “Dolemite Is My Name”.
Private life between relationships and children
Not much is known about Eddie Murphy’s private life except that he has a brother, also an actor, who died of leukemia in 2017. love level he had two stories both of which ended in pregnancies that led him to become Eric and Christian’s dad. He also had a relationship with Whitney Houston before settling down in 1988.
In fact, he marries the model Nicole Mitchell with whom he had five children and who grew up with her until 2005, when his wife filed for divorce. Immediately after the separation he dates the singer Melanie Brown from which Angel is born, a daughter that Murphy has at first did not want to recognize. In 2008 he then married Tracey Edmonds during a private ceremony in Bora Bora but immediately obtained the separation as the marriage was not recognized in the USA. In 2012 he finally became engaged to Paige Butcher from which the ninth and the tenth son of the actor.