# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-griffin-q441888
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:38:59.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-griffin-q441888"
name: "Eddie Griffin"
slug: "eddie-griffin-q441888"
description: "Edward Rubin Griffin is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for portraying Eddie Sherman in the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother, and Tiberius Jefferson \"T.J.\" Hicks in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also portrayed Lester Matthews in John Q. (2002), Orpheus in Scary Movie 3 (2003), Pope Sweet Jesus in Norbit (2007), and voiced Richard Pryor on Black Dynamite (2012–2015). Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time."
tagline: "American actor and comedian (born 1968)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1968-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump