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Eddie Murphy
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Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor Born: April 3, 1961 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, NY Biography:The son of a Brooklyn policeman who died when he was eight, African-American comedy superstar "Eddie Murphy" was raised in the comfortable middle-class community of Hempstead, NY, by his mother and stepfather. A natural-born class clown, he was voted the most popular student at Roosevelt Junior and Senior High. By the age of 15, he was doing standup gigs at 25 to 50 dollars a pop, and within a few years he was headlining on the comedy-club circuit.
"Murphy" was 19 he was when hired as one of the backup performers on the NBC comedy weekly "Saturday Night Live". His unique blend of youthful arrogance, sharkish good cheer, underlying rage, and street-smart versatility transformed the comedian into "SNL"'s prime attraction, and soon the country was reverberating with imitations of such choice "Murphy" characterizations as sourball celebrity Gumby, inner-city kiddie host Mr. Robinson, prison poet Tyrone... Full Biography
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