Omar Epps
Omar Epps
Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
23 July 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
Omar Hashim Epps
Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Belongs to a rap group called Wolfpak that he formed with his brother in 1991.Began writing screenplays at age ten.Attended Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and the Performing Arts in New York, NY, the school which the movie and TV show Fame (1980) was based on.He and actor Marlon Wayans have been friends since childhood.Welcomed his first child with fiancé Keisha Spivey in July 2004, a daughter named K'mari Mae.Was a back-up dancer for Queen Latifah.
Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""I'm going to be the first black President of the United States. If Reagan can do it, I know I can."" - to Newsday, 1999""I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It just came naturally. So it's coming full circle.""""People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.""""The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.""""The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.""""Before ER a lot of people knew my name and some people knew my face. I saw big difference after ER, like, wow, I didn't know television was that powerful.""
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