Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, writer, singer, and producer. Murphy was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984. He has worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked #10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In films, Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in "48 Hrs.", the "Beverly Hills Cop" series, "Trading Places", and "The Nutty Professor". In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award
Perspective (film) which was in production, intermittently, from 2002 to 2013. "Perspective" spans nearly a decade in the lives of fictional characters that actually age. “As a recording art form, motion pictures are uniquely paradoxical,” says Paquette, “they can capture realities that authenticate its artifice.” From Rolf Leslie playing twenty-seven characters in the life story of Queen Victoria in the silent feature "Sixty Years a Queen" in 1913 to Eddie Murphy playing eight characters in "" in 2000, the casting of a performer to play two or more characters in a film is, and always has been, common. The history of casting