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Eddie Murphy is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer. He is the second-highest grossing lead actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' from 1980 to 1984 -- keeping that show afloat at a time when it was floundering so badly that NBC was considering cancellation <ref>At the time, Eddie Murphy was ''SNL'''s youngest cast member to join at the age of 19. He was beaten by Anthony Michael Hall -- who was 17 years old -- when Hall joined the cast in 1985. Murphy is still considered the youngest black male cast member to join the cast, despite the upset</ref> -- and worked as a stand-up comedian throughout [[The Eighties]]. He was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.

Unfortunately, as the 1990's and 2000's rolled around, his career took a turn for the worse. The ''Showtime'' remake started the beginning of the end and ''Adventures of Pluto Nash'' became one of the all time biggest flops, with a budget of $100 million dollars and a worldwide gross of $7.1 million. He had a brief resurgence of quality with the [[Shrek]] films and ''[[Dreamgirls]]'', but he has yet to have a hit film since then due to [[Bad Bad Acting]] and several films that qualify for [[They Just Didn't Care]].

 

* [[Acting for Two]]: He does this. [[Up to Eleven|A lot.]] [[Serial Escalation|Sometimes three or four characters at a time.]]

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Almost became this, when he was very nearly cast as a lead character in ''[[Star Trek]] IV''. Murphy was a die-hard Trekkie, but another movie role came up that [[Money, Dear Boy|paid more]].