Eddie Murphy

 Edward Regan Murphy was born on April 3, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney) who was a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comic and actor. Following the death of his father, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Breyer's Ice Cream plant. His brothers include Charlie Murphy & Vernon Lynch Jr. Eddie had aspirations of being in show business from the time he was a kid. A bright child living in the streets of New York, Murphy spent most of his time doing impressions and stand-up routines , rather than studying. His sense of humor and wit allowed him to stand out amongst his classmates 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,