# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-epps
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:59:42.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-epps"
name: "Mike Epps"
slug: "mike-epps"
description: "Michael Elliot Epps is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, and also appeared in The Hangover and The Hangover Part III as \"Black Doug\". He was the voice of main character Boog in Open Season 2, replacing Martin Lawrence, with whom he starred in the comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, playing \"Reggie\", cousin of Roscoe. He played Lloyd Jefferson \"L.J.\" Wayne in the Resident Evil films (2004–2007) and O'Neil in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web (2024). He has had starring roles in the sitcoms Uncle Buck and The Upshaws."
tagline: "American actor, musician and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Epps_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1970-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           25.034872
  currentAttention:     42.12
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  224
  category: 9
totalFollowers: 277000
platforms:
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    handle:    "TheRealMikeEpps"
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    handle:    "nm0258402"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://mikeepps.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@therealmikeepps"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump