Eddie Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York on 3rd April 1961. He was raised in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. His mother was a telephone operator while his father was a transit cop though the latter was also an aspiring comedian.

In the early childhood of Eddie, he experienced death of his father which, in fact, changed many essential aspects of his life. He and his older brother Charlie Murphy once had lived with foster parents when their mother got sick for a while. His mother also recovered, and later remarried.

Eddie Murphy Net Worth?

Eddie Murphy is a gifted actor, Comedy, producer, and director from America who has net worth of $200 million. It is important to note that Eddie Murphy to this date remains one of the highest paid actors in movie production.

At the time of this writing, his flicks have earned close to $7 billion in the international box office. That makes them the sixth-highest-grossing American actor at the box office to this date and rising.

The dominancy of the highest aid in the global film market was the trademark that accompanied Eddie in the 80s, 90s and 2000s whereby he was among the world’s best paid actors paid $20 million per project.

To give an indication of the prize, to date Eddie has achieved lifelong salaries of far and above $300 Million USD besides backend royalties. In 2019 Netflix made a specific payment to Eddie of $70 million for the presentation of a series of comedy shows.

If you add it all up, of the deals we know of, Eddie has made at least $420 million to date in his career. SNL was in a trouble when Eddie joined the cast in 1980s. Lorne Michaels had left the show. The original stars had all left – the actors that were cast in the show were different entirely from those hired at the beginning of the series.

Career

After his time with SNL Eddie move to the big screen in 1982 with the movie 48 Hrs. Some of the movies he directed after the success of the first were Trading Places, the motion pictures Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, Harlem Nights, and Another 48 Hrs.

Murphy’s box-office power declined in the 1990 yet again resurged with a series of family movies, such as Mulan, Shrek series, Dreamgirls and Nutty Professor series.

Real Estate

Ever since the beginning of the series Eddie has accumulated many showy extravagant mansions. Eddie resided in Granite Bay, California (near Sacramento) during some time of the 1990s in a huge individual house in an enclosed upscale community.

Following the sale of the Granite Bay home, Eddie invested $10 million in a 3 more. He has an unimproved piece of land measuring 7 acres in one of the most restricted areas of Beverly Hills known as the Beverly Park.

Beverly Park is a guard gated community situated at the summit of the highest-class area of Beverly Hills. It boasts Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Rod Stewart and Sylvester Stallone among other celebrities.