Eddie Murphy

Biography
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961, and raised in Long Island in a middle-class community. He lost his father, a Brooklyn policeman, when he was only eight years old. His sense of humor was ever-present as a child, however, and he was the proverbial class clown in school. Voted the most popular student at his high school, Murphy was a comedic prodigy, performing for money at the age of fifteen. By eighteen, he was a headline act on the circuit.