• Name: Eddie Murphy
  
• Birth Name: Edward Regen Murphy
  
• Height: 5'10
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: April 3, 1961
  
• Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  
• Profession: actor, comedian
  
• Education: Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, Roosevelt, NY
  
• Husband/Wife: Nicole Mitchell (model; together since late 1980s; married on March 18, 1993)
  
• Relationship: Halle Berry (actress, model), Tamara Moore (1 son)
  
• Father: A Police officer (died when he was three)
  
• Mother: Lillian Murphy Lynch (a telephone operator)
  
• Brother: Charles Q. Murphy (actor, screenwriter)
  
• Half Brother: Vernon Lynch Jr
  
• Step Father: Vernon Lynch Sr. (a factory foreman)
  
• Son: Miles Mitchell (born on November 7, 1992; mother: Nicole Mitchell), Christian (mother: Tamara Moore)
  
• Daughter: Bella Zahra (born in January 2002), Zola Ivy (born on December 24, 1999 in L.A; mother: Nicole Mitchell), Shane Audra (born on October 10, 1994; mother: Nicole Mitchell), Brea (born on November 18, 1989, in Sacramento; mother: Nicole Mitchell)
  
• Claim to fame: as cast member for NBC's Saturday Night Live (1980-1984)
  

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• "Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made COP III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass."
• "Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made COP III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass."
• "I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way [Charlie] Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty." - in 1985
• "I'm Gumby, damnit!"
• "The strangest thing I ever hear is when people say my career is in trouble. How can some journalist look at my career and ask if it's in decline? Why don't they write that shit about Christian Slater? He's made about 30 bad movies...So what if my career dies? I stopped thinking in terms of career $80 million ago. If it ends, I'll sit home and chill and raise babies."

• Kids' Choice Awards: Blimp Award - Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie, SHREK (2002)
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy (2002)
• Annie Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production, SHREK (2001)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Actor - Comedy, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1997)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1997)
• Saturn Award: Best Actor, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1997)
• ShoWest Convention: Special Award - Star of the Decade (1992)
• Image Awards: Special Award - Entertainer of the Year (1990)
• Razzie Awards: Worst Screenplay, HARLEM NIGHTS (1990)
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Comedy Motion Picture Actor (1989)
• American Cinematheque Gala Tribute: American Cinematheque Award (1987)
• ShoWest Convention: Special Award - Star of the Year (1985)
• Grammy for his comedy album Eddie Murphy: Comedian, which featured his stand-up routine (1983)

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