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Spoiler Chat: Will Brooke and Julian Make It on One Tree Hill?
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EOnline.com - Found Jun. 29, 2009 As Omar Epps explains, trouble at work may equal trouble for Foreteen. Says Epps, 'Knowing the rhythm of our show, [their relationship] is... Spoiler Chat: Will Brooke and Julian Make It on One Tree Hill? - E! Online Explore All |
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Onyx Skateboard from Control Mfg., really? 16 hrs
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Examiner.com - Found Jun. 25, 2009 It's the first movie to be told entirely in rap and stars Omar Epps, Mekhi Phifer, Fredro Starr, Ray J, Michael Rapaport, Bokeem Woodbine... |
Now on DVD: In Too Deep
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Associated Content - Found Jun. 21, 2009 I haven't seen actor Omar Epps in a lot of movies lately, just in his reoccurring role as Eric Foreman on the show 'House.'After watching his 1999 |
TV Review: House, M.D. "Poison" (Season One Revisited)
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Blogcritics.org - Found Jun. 25, 2009 ... to Foreman in 'Poison' And so begins the beginning of the multi-season effort to establish Foreman (Omar Epps) as House's (Hugh Laurie) twin. |
House's Hugh Laurie & the Gang Spill Season Six Secrets
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EOnline.com - Found Jun. 19, 2009 21. House executive producers Katie Jacobs and David Shore, along with Hugh, Lisa and Omar Epps filled us in on House's mental state, Huddy's... House' boss to Huddy fans: 'I apologize - Entertainment Weekly Online 'House' movie heads up season six - Digital Spy 'House' producers apologise to fans - Digital Spy Explore All |
Onyx's Sticky Fingaz says, "Be safe with your piece"
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Examiner.com - Found Jun. 17, 2009 ... s directorial debut, A Day in the Life, a flick presented enitrely in rap form (?) and also starring Omar Epps, Mekhi Phifer, Ray J, Michael... Luce Cannon Recovering From Shooting - Teen First Teen Magazine Explore All |
TV Movies for the week of June 14
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Jun. 14, 2009 PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience CC = Closed captioned for hearing impaired ALPHABETICAL LISTING |
LIVE AT THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: "THE CREATIVE PROCESS: INSIDE ...
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Futon Critic - Found Jun. 18, 2009 7:32 PM - And with that Ray brings out the panelists: Omar Epps! Lisa Edelstein! Robert Sean Leonard! Hugh Laurie! Katie Jacobs! David Shore! |
Big Trouble is most remembered for having its release postponed just ...
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BoxOfficeProphets - Found Jun. 8, 2009 ... mosquito from watching the Discovery Channel and FBI Agent Seitz (a small but notable role by Omar Epps) has been checking out beautiful... |
Jokes create stereotyping disputes
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Daily Beacon Online - Found Jun. 18, 2009 Rachel Harris plays the 'shrew,' Heather Graham plays the 'sex toy,' and Omar Epps plays 'Black Doug,' a drug dealer. |
Omar Epps Biography
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| Born | Omar Hashim Epps July 20, 1973 Brooklyn, New York |
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Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor and musician. He is famous for his movies Juice, Higher Learning, Love and Basketball, In Too Deep, and The Wood. He had a small role in Scream 2 and was a recurring character (Dr Dennis Gant) on the US drama series, ER.
Since 2004, he has played the role of Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House.
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Biography
Epps was born in Brooklyn, New York to a single mother who was a school principal1 and lived in several neighborhoods while growing up (Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York and Flatbush).2 Before he started acting, he belonged to a rap group called Wolfpak which he formed with his brother in 1991. He began writing screenplays at the age of ten and attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Epps has a daughter Aiyanna Yasmine from a previous relationship.34 He married Keisha Spivey from the R&B group Total in 2006. They live in California with daughter K'marie (born in July 2004) and son Amir (born on 25 December 2007).
Career
Early in Epps' career, he was most often cast in the roles of troubled teens and/or athletes. He made his film debut with rapper Tupac Shakur as the star of cinematographer Ernest Dickerson's directorial film debut Juice. The film is the violent and tragic story of four young men growing up in Harlem. Epps followed up his performance in Juice as a running back in the college football drama The Program alongside James Caan.
The following year, he switched to baseball as co-star of Major League II, taking over the role of Willie Mays Hayes from originator Wesley Snipes. His next athletic endeavor was playing a track and field star in John Singleton's Higher Learning, a look at the politics and racial tensions of college life.
Epps landed a role on the hit television drama ER for several episodes portraying Dr. Dennis Gant, a troubled surgical intern. After his television work on ER, Epps returned to the big screen in 1997 with a brief turn as a giddy moviegoer on a date with a woman played by Jada Pinkett, who ends up an early victim of a psycho slasher in the blockbuster sequel Scream 2. Also in 1997 Epps was the star of the fact-based HBO movie First Time Felon, a movie he produced. Epps played a small-time criminal who goes through Chicago's boot camp reform system and undertakes a heroic flood rescue, only to then be faced with the adjustment of re-entering society with the mark of ex-con. In 1999 Epps was cast as Linc in The Mod Squad. The feature adaptation of the dated TV series had Epps in attractive but uncomfortable and decidedly unfashionable tight pants, a subject frequently raised by the actor in interviews promoting the film.
While The Mod Squad proved a critical and box office bust, Epps's later 1999 effort The Wood offered him a serious and multi-dimensional role. Following a group of middle-class African-Americans from youth to adulthood, The Wood, the debut effort from director-screenwriter Rick Fumuyiwa, co-starred Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs and received a push from co-producers MTV Films that ensured turnout of a sizable youth audience. Also in 1999, Epps was featured alongside Stanley Tucci and LL Cool J, playing an undercover detective who finds himself dangerously caught up in the illegal goings-on he is investigating in In Too Deep. 1999 also saw him lens the 1950s set murder mystery When Willows Touch, with James Earl Jones and Jada Pinkett Smith.
In 2000 Epps starred in Love and Basketball, featuring Alfre Woodard & Sanaa Lathan. He portrayed Quincy, the NBA hopeful who has a stormy relationship with an equally adept female basketball star Monica (Sanaa Lathan). The actor held supporting roles in a series of films including Dracula 2000, Big Trouble, and the telepic Conviction. In 2004, Epps landed the role of drug-dealer-turned-prizefighter Luther Shaw who falls under the tutelage of boxing promoter Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) in the biopic Against the Ropes.
Epps was a character in the video game Def Jam Fight for NY in 2004.
Also in 2004, Epps returned to television medical drama with his role as Dr. Eric Foreman on the US FOX television series House. The role earned him a NAACP Image Award in 2007 and 2008 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 1992 | Juice | Quincy 'Q' Powell |
| 1993 | Daybreak | Hunter |
| Poetic Justice | Member, Last Poets | |
| The Program | Darnell Jefferson | |
| 1994 | Major League II | Willie Mays Hayes |
| 1995 | Higher Learning | Malik Williams |
| 1996 | Deadly Voyage | Kingsley Ofusu |
| Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood | Malik | |
| ER (TV series) (1996 - 1997) | Dr. Dennis Gant | |
| 1997 | First Time Felon | Greg Yance |
| 1999 | Blossoms and Veils | Thee |
| Scream 2 | Phil Stevens | |
| 2000 | Brother | Denny |
| Love & Basketball | Quincy McCall | |
| Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 | Marcus | |
| 2001 | In Too Deep | Jeff Cole--J Reid |
| The Wood | Mike | |
| The Mod Squad | Linc Hayes | |
| Breakfast of Champions | Wayne Hoobler | |
| 2002 | Big Trouble | Seitz |
| Conviction | Carl Upchurch | |
| Perfume | J B | |
| 2004 | House (TV series) (2004 - present) | Dr. Eric Foreman |
| Against the Ropes | Luther Shaw | |
| Alfie | Marlon |
Discography
2004: Omar Epps Presents...The Get Back5
References
- ^ Omar Epps Biography (1973-)
- ^ "The Big O: Omar in the House". Playboy (Playboy) 56 (1): 19. January 2009. "I grew up all over Brooklyn - Bed Stuy, East New York, Flatbush...".
- ^ http://www.theinsider.com/news/785593_Omar_and_Keisha_Spivey_Epps_welcome_son_Amir#
- ^ http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/omar-epps/bio/168588
- ^ Omar Epps Discography - starpulse.com
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Omar Epps |
- Omar Epps at the Internet Movie Database
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