Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961)[2] is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has also worked as a stand-up comedian and is ranked No. 10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.[3]
Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs. (1982), the Beverly Hills Cop series (1984–present), Trading Places (1983), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). He has also won numerous awards for his work on the fantasy comedy film Dr. Dolittle (1998) and its 2001 sequel. In 2007, Murphy won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in the musical film Dreamgirls.[4]
Murphy has worked as a voice actor, including roles playing the Chinese dragonMushu in Disney's Mulan (1998), Thurgood Stubbs in the sitcom The PJs (1999–2001), and Donkey in DreamWorks Animation's Shrek series (2001–2010). In some films he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character; this is intended as a tribute to one of his idols, Peter Sellers. He has played multiple roles in Coming to America (1988), Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger (1999), The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), Norbit (2007), and Meet Dave (2008). As of 2016[update], Murphy's films have grossed over $3.8 billion ($6.5 billion adjusted for inflation) in the United States and Canada box office,[5] and over $6.7 billion worldwide.[6] In 2015, his films made him the sixth-highest grossing actor in the United States.[7][5]
In 2015, Murphy was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[8] In 2020, he won his first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for hosting Saturday Night Live.[9] As a singer, Murphy has released three studio albums, including How Could It Be (1985), So Happy (1989), and Love's Alright (1993).
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Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981)
Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982)
John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983)
John Derek – Bolero (1984)
Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986)
Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988)
Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)
1990s
Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991)
Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993)
Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994)
Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995)
Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997)
Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s
Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000)
Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
Martin Brest – Gigli (2003)
Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004)
Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005)
Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008)
Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
2010s
M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s
Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21)
Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021)
