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Eddie Murphy

American actor and comedian

  • Audience574K
  • Fame80.9
  • Momentum1.6
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574K youtube followers
  • Audience574K
  • Fame80.9
  • Momentum1.6
  • United States rank#230
  • Actors rank#51
  • Wikipedia238.5K
Born 1961 · age 65United States
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  • Biggest on YouTube
    574K
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  • Wikipedia
    100 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in United States
    #230
    Actors
  • Age
    65
    Born 1961
  • Known for
    Shrek
    2001
Summary
Updated 2026-08-14

He turned Saturday Night Live into a launchpad in the early '80s, then spent four decades proving he could carry a comedy, voice a talking donkey, play seven characters in one film, and still come back for more.

Biography

About

Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961, and by 1980 he was a regular on Saturday Night Live, holding the show together through four seasons before breaking into film. 48 Hrs. in 1982 made him a movie star; Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop sealed it. He spent the next two decades alternating between leading-man vehicles—Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle—and multi-role experiments paying homage to Peter Sellers, his idol. A Golden Globe for Dreamgirls in 2006 and an Oscar nomination followed, then a long stretch of misfires until Dolemite Is My Name in 2019 pulled him…

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Eddie Murphy
said
Michael Jackson, who can sing, and is a good lookin' guy - but ain't the most masculine fellow in the world.
— Eddie Murphy Delirious (1983)
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Filmography

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TV credits

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Awards

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  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
  • Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  • Grammy Awards
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
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Score breakdown

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Fame
Stable
80.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum1.6
Historical32.4
Now attention6.5
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#230
Category rank
#51
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Wikidata
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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