The Murphys are actors and artists, or work in the entertainment industry. Eddie Murphy is a comedian, director, actor, singer and producer. He is an ex-husband to Nicole Mitchell, father to Bria Murphy, and a younger brother to Charlie Murphy. His father was also an amateur comedian. He has a net worth of $85 million. How does he makes his money?
Movies and TV shows
Eddie’s career in show business spins around 40 years. His movies have grossed over 6.7 billion at the box office, worldwide. He became the only cast member on Saturday Night Live to host the show. He made his debut onto the big screen with 48 Hrs. It grossed more than $5 million in the first week. In 1984, he appeared in Beverly Hills Cops. It was #9 on all-time box-office hits, earning him a Golden Globe nomination. He also appeared in Harlem Nights, Another 48 Hrs, Trading Places, and Coming to America.
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He revived it with family-friendly movies like Shrek, The Nutty Professor, and Mulan. The Nutty Professor resulted in a nomination for a Golden Globe. He also won an Academy of Science, Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Award for the role in the film. He was nominated for a BAFTA award following his outstanding voiceover performance in Shrek.
He won a Golden Globe for his role in Dreamgirls. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006. He has won 5 Globe Awards. He has starred in more than 30 movies, and 7 TV shows.
He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015. Eddie has been able to play multiple characters in some of his films, for instance, in Coming to America.
Stand-up specials
He released his first stand-up special in 1982 titled Eddie Murphy: Comedian. The album went gold. He also was nominated for a Grammy. He then filmed Delirious in 1983. The latter became so popular that his concert film, Eddie Murphy Raw grossed $50
Not only is he the most nominated living individual in the history of the Academy Awards (with 49 nominations), but he is also the third most-nominated person in Hollywood History, second only to Metro Goldwyn Mayer (62) Walt Disney (59). In his credentials he holds five Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, 22 Grammy Awards, and 4 Golden Globe Awards. Considering that obtaining a single nomination for any of the aforementioned awards is remarkable in itself, this astounding number is truly
At the age of 16, Eddie began to question the system, and the government. He began to ask why it is that his race is treated differently, and subjected to cruel and unjust laws. This was the beginning of his career in politics. Later in his years, he learned that the land on Murray Island, which he
Since 2000, he has played a fraction of the film "SeaChange" (Wikipedia.org 2017), and his film and television work has already begun. Later, he participated in a variety of movies and tv, such as solo, double fist, good news week, thank God
Matthew McConaughey was a very enthusiastic speaker who showed that he was the right choice when winning this award. He began by thanking his fellow workers who worked hard on the movie and even the other nominees to show respect and not doubt his fellow actors. McConaughey also states his three main points of the speech to show what he would be talking about. His humor made his words flow whenever he started talking about his Father and it caused it to shift into thanking his loved ones in the audience. His stance throughout the speech looked like he was shifting only because he would look around at the audience and create eye contact. McConaughey pointed out the people he was talking about and directly spoke to them the things he wanted to
Eddie’s journey begins with a passion to read books and write poems. When Eddie first opened up about this to his girlfriend Lupe, “then [she] told [him he] should be a writer” (Johnson 76). Lupe is the root of his love for literature. However, he cannot let his reputation - which
As previously mentioned, his formal acting career was launched in 2005 in “Sandlot 2.” He followed that up with roles in the films “The Bondage,” “The Deaf Family” and “The Legend of the Mountain Man.” In addition to films, he
Also his film career thrived with roles in films, “Claudine”, “Conan the Barbarian” He won the second Tony Award for the theater show, “Fences” in 1987. His career also expanded into voice acting, thankfully to his deep voice, therefore roles as Musafa in “The Lion King” and being a voice behind the Darth Vader`s mask in “Star Wars” franchise, added considerable amount to his net worth. Jones is also successful in television shows, mostly as a guest star in TV series, “Lois and Clark: The new Adventures of Superman”, “Two and a half Men”, “The Big Bang Theory”. Through his whole acting career, which is still active, he has been nominated for numerous notable awards, winning a Golden Globe for the film “Great White Hope” in 1970 and several Emmy Awards as a best supporting actor in TV productions. In addition, Jones received an Honorary Academy Award in
Duhamel has starred in many movies like Transformers, Life as we know it, the Romantics, Safe Haven, and many more. He is a great actor who has been nominated for lots of rewards. He has been nominated for the Teen Choice Awards five times and OFTA Television Awards twice. In 2002, he was awarded the Daytime Emmy for the movie All My Children.
Some may say he is intelligent, while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer. This two-time Oscar winner and nominee of numerous awards, has proven that Hollywood is not just a money making workshop, but it offers well profound characters that deserve the attention of connoisseurs. More importantly,
Known for his comedy, seeing Foxx play such a serious role and do it well surprised critics. That is why polls heavily favored him to win at least one of the two awards.
Eddie was such a skilled waterman that he was hired as the first lifeguard ever to work on the North Shore. This job only improved his surfing skills because during his breaks and lunches, Eddie would surf. He became more skillful and daring by having this kind of access to big waves every day (Dubiel). Eddie never even had a high school diploma, but because he was such an extraordinary surfer he was awarded the position (Dubiel). There was never a loss of life while Eddie was on duty and he went on to save over find hundred lives in the course of his career there (Dubiel). Eddie was honored by his fellow lifeguards in 1971 and was named “Lifeguard of the Year”
Eddie at the beginning of the story was hopeful that his career would succeed.Everything started going well for him, people said he played from the heart. He was starting to show that he had money, he got a leather jacket and and wore a chain. He made 1 record that went to the charts. When he went to hollywood he met a girl immediately and moved in with her. Not only that she taught him how to play the guitar which started his music career.Eddie started to become successful however when the A&R man told him that he doesn't hear a single. His music career was basically over, he had no idea what to do, he was confused. He was lost, he had no career when his A&R man fired him, he is “a rebel without a
Tom Cruise is an extraordinary actor. Critics and films determine and prove that he is one of the best actors to make it in the business. Cruise not only was nominated for 80 awards, he has won 29, and 4 Golden Globe awards (Wikipedia). His life style, and acting wasn’t just handed to him it was earned and hard worked like anything Tom has achieved before.
can see the type of man Eddie is, as when he meets the brothers for
With Eddie being limitless on this drug he gains power over things and makes more money than he ever thought would be possible, which eventually conditions him into becoming even more dependent upon the drug.