Mike Epps Biography
Mike Epps is an American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his appearances in Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, as well as The Hangover and The Hangover Part III. He voiced in Open Season 2, replacing Martin Lawrence, with whom he costarred in the comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins as “Reggie,” Roscoe’s cousin.
How old is Mike Epps? – Age
He is 53 years old as of 18 November 2023. She was born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. His real name is Michael Elliot Epps.
Mike Epps Family
Epps was born and reared in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the son of Mary Reed and Tommie Epps. Epps came to Brooklyn as an adult to appear on Def Comedy Jam in 1994.
Mike Epps Wife
In June 2019, Epps married Kyra Robinson, an OWN Network executive and producer of Iyanla: Fix My Life, in Newport Beach, California. He previously married Mechelle McCain in July 2006. The couple lived in Beverly Hills, California, until their divorce in September 2017.
Mike Epps Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Mike Epps Stand-Up
Epps began his professional career in 1995, when he joined the Def Comedy Jam tour and appeared in two HBO Def Comedy Jam programs. He saw Epps perform a stand-up performance and then invited him to audition for the role of Day-Day Jones. In addition to hosting the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards, Epps released a stand-up comedy special titled Under Rated & Never Faded.
In the 2012 version of Sparkle, Epps played with Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston as the major antagonist, Satin, a stand-up comic by day and a nasty and abusive drug kingpin by night, who is having an affair with the title character’s sister. Epps’ performance was positively appreciated by both critics and audiences. Disability groups have attacked Epps for insulting physically and intellectually challenged children in his stand-up routine.
On June 1, 2014, Epps allegedly assaulted fellow stand-up comic LaVar Walker outside the Uptown Comedy Club. It was reported that Epps and two of his bodyguards did this in response to Walker’s spoof video of Epps and comedian Kevin Hart. Epps allegedly punched him in the face, kicked him in the stomach, and back, while one of the other two guys hurled the victim’s smartphone and destroyed his prescription glasses. Atlanta police issued a warrant for Epps’ arrest two days later, on June 3.
Mike Epps Career
Epps’ most memorable on-screen appearance came in Vin Diesel’s second executive film, Strays in 1997. In 1999, Epps was then given a role as Ice Shape’s co-star in the spin-off, Next Friday. Epps’ exhibition was generally welcomed by pundits and crowds. In 2014, Epps handled the sought after job of Richard Pryor in an arranged Pryor biopic to be coordinated by Lee Daniels; notwithstanding, the undertaking has stayed being developed damnation. Epps depicted Pryor in the 2016 Nina Simone biopic Nina and in an episode of the HBO show series Winning Time about the L.A. Lakers.
Epps had a featuring job in the 2016 parody blood and gore movie Meet the Blacks and its 2021 spin-off The House Nearby: Meet the Blacks 2. He additionally featured as the title character in the single-season 2016 sitcom Uncle Buck. Starting around 2021, he has been a fundamental cast part on the Netflix sitcom The Upshaws.
Epps “facilitated” the Jim Jones and Skull Group collection Jim Jones and Skull Pack Present A Recognition For Terrible St Nick Featuring Mike Epps. Epps has likewise made a melody called “Attempting to Be a Gangsta” with Pooh Bear.
Epps additionally facilitated G Unit’s 2008 mixtape Elephant In The Sand, showing up on the track “Empty Through Him”. Epps likewise has a melody called “Young ladies”, which turned out in 2008. It was initially recorded by Bow Wow including Yung Joc. The tune is as of now on iTunes and can be tracked down on his collection, Entertaining Bidness: Da Collection, which was delivered October 27, 2009. Epps likewise has highlighted in rapper French Montana’s Macintosh Mind Da Cheddar mixtape, which was delivered on April 19, 2009. Epps has additionally included on the Dom Kennedy tune “Introduction/Difficult Work” on his FutureStreet/DrugSounds mixtape.
In 2006 he marked nearby craftsman Philthyphil. This craftsman had quite recently been set free from jail subsequent to serving three years for a medication prosecution in which he was the associated wholesaler with a lot of opiates. The record bargain which was allegedly worth $175,000 was subsequently ended after Phillip “Philthyphil” White was accused of first-degree murder in Oakland, CA in 2007.
Epps has made appearance appearances in numerous music recordings, for the most part by hip bounce craftsmen, including “Gangsta Country” (2003) by Westside Association, “A Straight Sound” (2007) by Typhoon Chris, “No Work” (2017) by Tee Grizzley, and “Ledger” (2017) by 21 Savage. Epps filled in as the “Super Bowl minister” in his local Indianapolis for the 2012 Super Bowl. He was highlighted in plugs advancing the Super Bowl Town and he showed up in the Town during the seven day stretch of the Super Bowl.
Mike Epps Movies
♦ 2024 – The Underdoggs
♦ 2024 – Madame Web
♦ 2023 – You People
♦ 2023 – Young. Wild. Free.
♦ 2022 – On the Come Up
♦ 2021 – The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2
♦ 2020 – A Compton Story
♦ 2019 – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
♦ 2019 – Troop Zero
♦ 2019 – The Trap
♦ 2019 – How High 2
♦ 2019 – The Cat and the Moon
♦ 2019 – Dolemite Is My Name
♦ 2018 – Uncle Drew
♦ 2018 – Acts of Violence
♦ 2018 – Love Jacked
♦ 2018 – Death Wish
♦ 2018 – Supercon
♦ 2018 – Don’t Get Caught
♦ 2017 – Girls Trip
♦ 2017 – Where’s the Money
Mike Epps TV Shows
♦ 2023 – I’m a Virgo
♦ 2022 – Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
♦ 2021 – Superstar
♦ 2021–present – The Upshaws
♦ 2020 – You Ain’t Got These
♦ 2020 – This Is Stand-Up
♦ 2020 – Stumptown
♦ 2020 – BlackAF
♦ 2017 – All Def Movie Awards
♦ 2017 – Hollywood Game Night
♦ 2017 – Hip Hop Squares
♦ 2017 – Star
♦ 2016 – Uncle Buck
♦ 2015 – That’s Racist with Mike Epps
♦ 2014 – Ridiculouness
♦ 2014 – Real Husbands of Hollywood
♦ 2014–2016 – Survivor’s Remorse
♦ 2010 – Funk Flex Full Throttle
♦ 2009 – World’s Dumbest
♦ 2009–2012 – BET Hip Hop Awards
♦ 2006 – Def Comedy Jam
♦ 2006 – The Boondocks
♦ 2005 – It’s the Shoes