Curiosidades

The first actor to receive $1,000,000 for his first film.

The first (and so far only) actor to receive a BAFTA nomination for a voice-over performance - Best Supporting Actor for Shrek (2001).

He doesn't drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes and the only drug he takes is caffeine.

Is the only cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975) to host while still a cast member. Nick Nolte was to host but fell ill and Eddie replaced him.

He was offered the lead role in ¿Quién engañó a Roger Rabbit? (1988) that went to Bob Hoskins, but turned it down. He deeply regrets this decision.

Paid for the funeral of comedic inspiration Redd Foxx.

He has donated money to the AIDS Foundation, and cancer, education, creative arts, family/parent support, health and homeless charities. He has donated to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, various cancer charities and $100,000 to the Screen Actors' Guild's strike relief fund.

The role of Winston Zeddemore in Los Cazafantasmas (1984) was originally written with him in mind and was meant to be much bigger. He turned it down in favor of starring in Superdetective en Hollywood (1984) and the role went to Ernie Hudson.

Idolized Richard Pryor and was inspired by him to do comedy. Went on to cast Pryor in his directorial debut Noches de Harlem (1989).

Born to Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer, and his wife Lilian, a telephone operator. Charles left the family when Eddie was three years old and was stabbed to death five years later. Charles was also an amateur stand-up comedian.

Was voted Most Popular while attending Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, New York, due to the stand-up comedy routines he would perform in the school's auditorium and jokes he would tell classmates during lunch.

Has 10 children: son, Eric Murphy (b. July 10, 1989) with 1st ex-girlfriend, Paulette McNeely, daughter, Bria L. Murphy (b. November 18, 1989), son, Myles Murphy (b. November 7, 1992) and daughters, Shayne Audra Murphy (b. October 10, 1994), Zola Murphy (b. December 24, 1999) & Bella Murphy (b. January 29, 2002) with ex-wife, Nicole Mitchell Murphy, son, Christian E. Murphy (b. November 29, 1990) with 2nd ex-girlfriend, Tamara Hood, daughter, Angel Murphy Brown (b. April 3, 2007) with 3rd ex-girlfriend, Mel B and daughter, Izzy Oona Murphy (b. May 3, 2016) & son, Max Charles Murphy (b. November 30, 2018) with fiancée, Paige Butcher.

Got the idea of playing multiple roles in one film after watching another one of his idols, Peter Sellers, in one of his all time favorite films ¿Teléfono rojo? Volamos hacia Moscú (1964).

Was considered for the role of Furious Styles in Los chicos del barrio (1991), which went to Laurence Fishburne.

Was in a relationship with singer Whitney Houston before she married former husband Bobby Brown.

Older brother Charlie Murphy is also an actor. Younger brother Vernon Jr. was half of the hip-hop group K-9 Posse, which released two albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

At first, he denied that he was the father of Mel B's daughter Angel until a DNA-test proved that he was.

He agreed to star in Bowfinger, el pícaro (1999) purely to work with Steve Martin, whom he had long admired.

Did stand-up comedy at the same Bay Area Comedy Club as Robin Williams and Caryn Johnson (whose stage name eventually became Whoopi Goldberg) before getting into acting.

Is an admirer of martial artist Bruce Lee, naming him as the only actor he has ever consciously imitated onscreen. Murphy first adopted Lee's "tough guy face" in Límite: 48 horas (1982) and has quipped that, since then "whenever you see me holding a gun onscreen, I'm doing Bruce!".

Considers his impression of his brother Charlie his best impression.

His comedic influences include Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, and Robin Williams.

Was one of the last movie actors to sign an exclusive contract with a studio. In this case, it was Paramount Pictures, which released all of his early films.

Graduated high school as Most Popular boy.

Ranked 5th highest grossing actor of all time with his previous films grossing $3.8 billion, as of 2016.

Is an avid fan of professional wrestling, with Hulk Hogan as his all time favorite wrestler.

The 2015 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Keeps a bowling alley in the basement at his home.

Owns the original Ernie Barnes painting "The Sugar Shack" from the popular TV series Good Times (1974).

Is a huge fan of the original Star Trek: La serie original (1966) series.

Was cast by Saturday Night Live (1975) and NBC in 1980 when he was 19 years old.

He does an excellent impersonation of Stevie Wonder. This can be seen and heard on Saturday Night Live; Best of Eddie Murphy (last scene).

Is a huge fan of the bands Ratt and Cinderella, particularly the former as can be seen in El chico de oro (1986) where their song "Body Talk" (from their 1986 album "Dancing Undercover") is featured.

Chosen as #10 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comics of All Time.

Although arguably the biggest movie star ever to come out of Saturday Night Live (1975), he has never attended a cast reunion and is not known to even talk about having been on the show.

At the height of his popularity in the mid 1980s, he began a music career, spawning the popular song "Party All the Time", which he recorded with Rick James. Also recorded an album in the early 1990s, entitled "Whazzupwitu", in which he performs in a video of the single of the same name, alongside Michael Jackson. Murphy appeared in Jackson's video "Remember the Time" in 1992 alongside fellow celebrities Magic Johnson and Iman.

Chris Rock is an admirer of Murphy and considers him his role model and inspiration to become an actor and comedian.

He turned down the role of James Carter in Hora punta (1998) in order to star in El gurú: Una incontrolable tentación (1998). The role went to Chris Tucker.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on June 26, 1996.

Attended Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, before beginning his acting career.

Scored two hits on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts with "Party All the Time" (US #2, 1985) and "Put Your Mouth on Me" (US #27, 1989).

Is a huge fan of Elvis Presley and Kylie Minogue.

Was considered for the title role in Candyman, el dominio de la mente (1992), which went to Tony Todd.

Married Tracey E. Edmonds in a private ceremony on an island off Bora Bora on 1 January 2008, but their nuptials were not legal in the United States. They initially decided to renew their vows in America, but eventually separated two weeks after their island wedding.

Although he frequently plays multiple characters in films and television, and has lent his voice to a dozen animated projects, he has never once voiced more then one character in the same animated project.

Even though he played cops or characters with guns, he deeply dislikes guns.

Eddie's multiple roles have been played in the films: El príncipe de Zamunda (1988) (4), Un vampiro suelto en Brooklyn (1995) (3), The Nutty Professor (El profesor chiflado) (1996) (7), Bowfinger, el pícaro (1999) (2), El profesor chiflado II: La familia Klump (2000) (8), Norbit (2007) (3), Atrapado en un pirado (2008) (2).

Frank Oz wanted him to voice Audrey II in La tienda de los horrores (1986).

Two of his movies - Superdetective en Hollywood (1984) and El chico de oro (1986) - started out as serious action films with Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson respectively, before becoming comedies.

He originally wasn't supposed to be a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1975). When Jean Doumanian was gathering her cast, she had another token black cast member in mind (Robert Townsend, after failing to get comedian and street performer Charlie Barnett, who, despite being talented enough for TV, was a barely-literate high school dropout), but an SNL writer at the time named Neil Levy and Murphy's agent urged Doumanian to give him a chance. Murphy was let on the show after Townsend forgot (or refused) to sign his cast member contract, and even then, Murphy was relegated to background roles (even though he was a feature player along with Patrick Weathers, Yvonne Hudson, and Matthew Laurence) and fought hard to be more prominent on the show. When Doumanian was running out of material for the episode hosted by Ray Sharkey, Murphy stepped in and did a stand-up bit about black people fighting and was promoted to repertory player on the next episode (hosted by Karen Black.