Birth Name: Edward Regan Murphy
Birthdate: April 3, 1961
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Occupations: Actor, Director, Writer, Musician, Comedian, Producer
Quote: "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." --Daily News, May 16, 1994

Claim to Fame: 1980-84: TV debut as cast member and writer for NBC's Saturday Night Live

Family:
Father: Police officer; died when Murphy was three
Mother: Lillian Murphy Lynch, telephone operator
Stepfather: Vernon Lynch Sr., factory foreman; worked at an ice cream plant
Brother: Charles (aka Charlie Murphy), actor, screenwriter; appeared as bouncer in Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Stepbrother: Vernon Lynch Jr.
Son: Christian; mother, Tamara Moore
Daughter: Brea; born November 18, 1989, in Sacramento, CA; mother, Nicole Mitchell
Son: Miles Mitchell; born November 7, 1992; named after jazz great Miles Davis; mother, Nicole Mitchell
Daughter: Shane Audra; born October 10, 1994; mother, Nicole Mitchell

Awards:
1983: NAACP Image
1983: Grammy: Best Comedy Album, Eddie Murphy: Comedian
1988: NAACP Image: Entertainer of the Year
1992: NATO/ShoWest Star of the Decade
1996: National Society of Film Critics: Best Actor, The Nutty Professor

Education:
Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, Roosevelt, NY (voted "Most Popular")