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Eddie Murphy
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Biography
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian, and singer. He is the second-highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor for his performance in 48 Hrs and best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role. Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove and elsewhere. Murphy has played multiple roles in Coming to America, Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films (where he played the title role in two incarnations, plus his father, brother, mother, and grandmother), Bowfinger, and 2007's Norbit.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Riding the Circuit
From theme park gunslingers to bounty hunters on Mars, a journey through the sci-fi Western and the cultures that remade it.
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Being Eddie
2025 · Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Self - SNL Cast Member 1980-1984
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024 · Axel Foley
You People
2023 · Akbar
Coming 2 America
2021 · Prince Akeem / Clarence / Saul / Randy Watson
A Thousand Words
2012 · Jack McCall
Tower Heist
2011 · Slide
Shrek Forever After
2010 · Donkey (voice)
Imagine That
2009 · Evan Danielson
Meet Dave
2008 · Dave / Captain
Shrek the Third
2007 · Donkey (voice)
Norbit
2007 · Norbit / Rasputia / Mr. Wong
Dreamworks 5 Holiday Classics Collection
2005 · Donkey (voice)
Shrek 2
2004 · Donkey (voice)
The Haunted Mansion
2003 · Jim Evers
I Spy
2002 · Kelly Robinson
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 · Pluto Nash
Shrek
2001 · Donkey (voice)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000 · Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Granny Klump / Mama Klump / Papa Klump / Young Papa Klump / Ernie Klump / Lance Perkins
Bowfinger
1999 · Kit Ramsey / Jeffernson 'Jiff' Ramsey
Life
1999 · Rayford Gibson
Doctor Dolittle
1998 · Dr. John Dolittle
Mulan
1998 · Mushu (voice)
The Nutty Professor
1996 · Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Lance Perkins / Papa Klump / Mama Klump / Grandma Klump / Ernie Klump
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995 · Maximillian / Pauly / Guido
Beverly Hills Cop III
1994 · Axel Foley
Boomerang
1992 · Marcus Graham
Another 48 Hrs.
1990 · Reggie Hammond
Coming to America
1988 · Prince Akeem / Clarence / Randy Watson / Saul
Eddie Murphy Raw
1987 · Self
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 · Axel Foley
The Golden Child
1986 · Chandler Jarrell
Beverly Hills Cop
1984 · Axel Foley
Trading Places
1983 · Billy Ray Valentine
48 Hrs.
1982 · Reggie Hammond
Wrote
Produced
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
Coming 2 America
2021
Tower Heist
2011
Norbit
2007
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
Life
1999
The Nutty Professor
1996
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Boomerang
1992
Another 48 Hrs.
1990
Coming to America
1988
Eddie Murphy Raw
1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
The Golden Child
1986
Beverly Hills Cop
1984