Eddie Murphy

 Edward Regan Murphy was the third child of Lillian Lynch (born Lillian Laney) and Charles Edward Murphy (a transit officer and amateur comedian). He was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 3 in 1961. His mother got married to Vernon Lynch (foreman at Breyer's Ice Cream). His brothers are Charlie Murphy & Vernon Lynch Jr. Eddie had aspirations of working in show business from the time he was a kid. Murphy was a bright kid who was raised on the streets of New York. He spent more time performing impressions and performing comedy stand-up routines, rather than learning about academics. His humour and wit made him a distinguished student at Roosevelt Junior Senior High School. By the time he was fifteen, Murphy worked as a stand-up comic on the lower part of New York, wooing audiences with his dead-on impressions of celebrities and outlooks on life.In the early 1980s, at the age of 19, Murphy was offered a contract for the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players of Saturday Night Live (1975), where Murphy exercised his comedic abilities in impersonating African American figures and originating some of the show's most memorable characters: Velvet Jones, Mr. Robinson,