Omar Epps
Omar Epps was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on July 20th, 1973 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 51, Omar Epps biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
At 51 years old, Omar Epps has this physical status:
Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor.
Juice, Higher Learning, The Wood, In Too Deep, Love, and Basketball are among his film credits.
His television appearances include Dr. Dennis Gant of Resurrection, J. Martin Bellamy of the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012, and Isaac Johnson in the Fox medical drama series Fireman from 2016 to 2018.
Early life
Omar Epps was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents divorced during his childhood and his uncle, Bonnie Maria Epps, was raised by his mother, an elementary school principal. While growing up, he lived in many Brooklyn communities (Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, and East Flatbush). He was a member of a rap group called Wolfpack, which he formed with his cousin in 1991 before beginning to perform. At the age of ten, he began writing poetry, short stories, and songs, and attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts.
Personal life
In 2006, Epps married singer Keisha Spivey from the R&B group Total. They have two children, daughter K'mari Mae, and son Amir. Aiyanna, his daughter, has also been born from a previous marriage.
He speaks Spanish and French fluently.
Epps and comedian Marlon Wayans are longtime acquaintances and high school classmates at LaGuardia High, who both graduated in 1990. Epps, alongside Marlon and Shawn Wayans, co-produced the 1997-1999 theme song for The Wayans Brothers.
In a 2018 interview, Epps denied long-standing rumors that he is related to fellow actor Mike Epps, saying, "Me and Mike Epps are not related, but we did talk like, where you come from?"Where you from?'"
Epps wrote From Fatherless to Fatherhood, a self-biographical book that was published by Lulu Publishing in June 2018.
Epps serves on the Cultural Council of RepresentUs, a non-profit group that focuses on the passage of anti-corruption legislation in the United States. He narrated an educational video for the organization in June 2020 about America's criminal justice system.
Career
Epps was most often seen in the roles of struggling teenagers and/or athletes early in his career. As the protagonist of cinematographer Ernest Dickerson's debut Juice, he made his feature film debut with rapper Tupac Shakur. By playing a running back in the college football drama alongside James Caan, Epps continued his Juice debut as a DJ by later being back in Juice as a DJ. In this true tale about African stowaways, Epps appeared in the film Deadly Voyage and received the best actor award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for portraying Kingsley Ofusu. He returned to baseball as co-star of Major League II in the following year, taking over Willie Mays Hayes from originator Wesley Snipes. In John Singleton's Higher Education, a glimpse at college life's politics and racial tensions, his next athletic venture was playing a track and field actor.
For several episodes, Epps appeared as Dr. Dennis Gant, a struggling surgical intern, on television drama ER. After his television appearances on ER, Epps returned to film in 1997 as a gypsy moviegoer, who is later identified as a slasher victim in the blockbuster sequel Scream 2. Epps appeared in the fact-based HBO film First Time Felon in 1997. He was a tiny-time criminal who goes through Chicago's boot camp reform scheme and conducts a heroic flood rescue, only to be confronted with the re-entering of a small-time society with the sign of ex-con. In 1999, Epps was cast as Linc in The Mod Squad. Although The Mod Squad was a critical and box-office bust, Epps' later 1999 venture The Wood provided him with a more comprehensive and multi-dimensional role. The Wood, the debut attempt by director-screenwriter Rick Famuyiwa, co-starred Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs, following a group of middle-class African Americans from youth to adulthood. Epps appeared alongside Stanley Tucci and LL Cool J in 1999, playing an undercover detective who is caught up in the criminal activities he is investigating in In Too Deep. He also filmed When Willows Touch, a 1950s set murder mystery, with James Earl Jones and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Epps appeared in Love & Basketball, starring Alfre Woodard and Sanaa Lathan in 2000. Quincy, the NBA hopeful with a tumultuous female basketball player Monica Lathan, was played by Lathan. In addition, Epps appeared in a number of films, including Dracula 2000, Big Trouble, and Conviction's telepic Conviction. In Brother, a film directed by Japanese actor/director Takeshi Kitano, he also played a central role as a gangster.
In the 2005 film Against the Ropes, 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 2004 video game Def Jam Fight for New York, Epps was a character.
With his role as Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox television series House, Epps returned to television medical drama in 2004. In 2007, 2008 and 2013, he received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In the ABC television series Resurrection, Epps played agent J. Martin Bellamy. In Arcadia, Missouri, the series explores a number of people who return from the dead and change the lives of their families and friends.
Epps appeared in the Netflix psychological thriller Fatal Affair in July 2020.
With, Mo'Nique, Andra Day, Miss Lawrence, and Tasha Smith, Epps will appear in The Deliverance by Lee Daniels in 2022.