Eddie Murphy turns 40

Today, one of the most famous film comedians, Eddie Murphy, turns 40 years old. He became the first black actor to become a comic superstar in America in the 1980s and 1990s.

African-American by birth, Eddie performed variety acts from the age of 15. From the age of 20, he participated in the famous TV show “Saturday Night Live” and made his film debut quite early. Murphy gained popularity after participating in the action comedies “48 Hours,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “The Golden Child,” and the lyrical comedies “Trading Places” and “Coming to America.”

In the wake of this success, he made his debut as director of the gangster comedy Harlem Nights. In the early 90s, Eddie Murphy acted both as a screenwriter and as a producer of many of his films. He riskily decided to add a dose of irony and romance, satirical colors or parody-mystical motifs to his eccentric and sometimes rough manner of acting. These were the films “The Honorable Gentleman”, “Boomerang”, “Vampire in Brooklyn”, which, however, were not particularly popular with viewers.

But talk that Murphy’s time was irretrievably lost, and he should forever say goodbye to the unofficial title of “King of Comedy”, losing the title, for example, to Jim Carrey, were forgotten immediately as soon as the eccentric fantastic comedy was released on the screen in 1996. Crazy Professor." One can argue for a long time about the qualities of this film, but one thing is indisputable - Eddie Murphy again rose to the occasion as a character actor, brilliantly performing as many as seven roles there.