Biografie
Mike Epps (born November 18, 1970) is an American comedian and actor.
Epps grew up between Gary, Indiana, where he spent summers with his grandparents, and in Crenshaw, where he shared a house with eight siblings and his mother. A troublemaking class clown who admitted to spending four months in a juvenile center after a prank involving super glue. He entered a stand-up comedy contest at an Indiana Club called Seville's. His success on stage gave him the courage: to strike out on his own and move to Atlanta where he began making a name for himself at the Comedy Act Theater. The owner of the club suggested Epps move to New York to build his act. He was 21 years old. While breaking into the city's conventional comedy clubs proved difficult, the Def Comedy Jam phenomenon stimulated an underground black comedy scene in which Epps excelled.
Epps has been married to Michelle McCain since 2006.
By 1995, Mike Epps ended up on the Def Comedy Jam tour and starred in two of HBO's Def Comedy Jam broadcasts. With a stop along the way to appear in actor Vin Diesel's directorial debut Strays (1996), Mike Epps was well on his way to becoming one of the bigger names in stand-up.
He appeared in an episode of The Sopranos in 1999, the same year the comedian was cast as Ice Cube's co-star (effectively, Chris Tucker's replacement) in the Friday sequel Next Friday. Epps headed for Los Angeles, where he invited Ice Cube to catch his stand-up set. Impressed, the rapper-actor-producer asked Epps to try out for the part of Day-Day, which he landed after weeks of auditions.
Opening at Number One on the box-office charts, Next Friday was a breakthrough for the new actor, who was already familiar to much of the audience from his stand-up work. Epps played the ineffectual Day-Day, a smoked-out character stalked by his obsessive ex-girlfriend (Tamala Jones) and her brutish younger sister Baby D (Lady of Rage). Later that year, he had a cameo in DJ Pooh's 3 Strikes and supported Jamie Foxx in the action comedy Bait.
Mike Epps began 2001 with a voice role in the family comedy Dr. Dolittle 2 and finished the year with a featured role as comical pimp Baby Powder in How High, starring hip-hop artists Redman and Method Man. Epps played the bumbling thief to Ice Cube's bounty hunter in the action comedy All about the Benjamins and again re-teamed with the rapper-actor-filmmaker in the continuing Friday saga's latest entry Friday After Next (both 2002).
Other notable movie roles include The Fighting Temptations with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and R&B/Pop diva Beyoncé Knowles, Guess Who (the 2005 remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Bernie Mac), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), the 2005 remake of The Honeymooners with Cedric the Entertainer, and Roll Bounce (playing one of two garbage men along with Charlie Murphy). Mike Epps recently had a small part in the song A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris doing the Rick James move.
Filmography
Filmografie Mike Epps
The Hangover Part 3
Comedy Regie: Tod PhillipsMet: Todd Phillips, Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper,...This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.Sparkle
Drama, Musical Regie: Salim AkilMet: Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks, Mike EppsMusical prodigy, Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother (Whitney Houston), she tries to balance a new romance with music manager, Stix (Derek Luke) while dealing with... Verder lezen...Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Comedy Regie: Malcolm D. LeeMet: Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant,...Martin Lawrence stars as talk-show sensation Dr. RJ Stevens, who has shirked his simple Southern past and the awkward boy he used to be to dispense "you can do it" advice to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-series star on his arm and loads of cash in his pocket, there's nothing he feels he... Verder lezen...Resident Evil: Extinction
Action, Horror Regie: Russell MulcahyMet: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Sienna Guillory,...Milla Jovovich is back as Alice and she's running with a new pack of humans, leading a caravan that's cutting through the Nevada desert on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the perpetually scheming Dr. Isaacs, Alice has zombies hungry for her flesh and lab rats hungry for her blood --... Verder lezen...Something New
Romantic comedy, Drama Regie: Sanaa HamriMet: Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Golden Brooks,...The Honeymooners
Comedy Regie: John SchultzMet: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Regina Hall,...New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough... Verder lezen...Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Action, Horror Regie: Alexander WittMet: Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr,...Nieuws over Mike Epps
Robin Thicke vraagt vriendin ten huwelijk
De Canadees-Amerikaanse zanger Robin Thicke en zijn vriendin April Love Geary gaan trouwen. De zanger vroeg de moeder van zijn tweede kind en aanstaande derde kind op kerstavond ten huwelijk. Verder lezen...Exclusive 'Beowulf' trailer
"Beowulf", major work of the Anglo-Saxon literature dating from the VIIe century, will reappear on the movie screens by the end of the year! Verder lezen...Bioscopen
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