Contact Omar Epps

Full Name:	Omar Epps
Birth Name:	Omar Hashim Epps
Famous As:	Actor, musician
Date of Birth:	July 23, 1973
Place of Birth:	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 10?
Nationality:	American

• Spoiler Chat: Will Brooke and Julian Make It on One Tree Hill?

  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

  E! Online

• Onyx Skateboard from Control Mfg., really? 16 hrs

  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

  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)

  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

  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"

  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

  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 ...

  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 ...

  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

  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 extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Omar Epps
Born	Omar Hashim Epps July 20, 1973 (1973-07-20) (age 35) Brooklyn, New York

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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Discography 5 References 6 External links

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
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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Omar Epps

• Omar Epps at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Portal · Episodes (Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Category) · Awards · Soundtrack · Quotes · Category Main characters Dr. Gregory House · Dr. Lisa Cuddy · Dr. James Wilson · Dr. Allison Cameron · Dr. Robert Chase · Dr. Eric Foreman · Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley · Dr. Chris Taub · Dr. Lawrence Kutner Minor characters Edward Vogler · Stacy Warner · Mark Warner · Michael Tritter · Amber Volakis · Lucas Douglas Executive producers Paul Attanasio · Katie Jacobs · David Shore · Bryan Singer Cast Hugh Laurie · Lisa Edelstein · Robert Sean Leonard · Jennifer Morrison · Jesse Spencer · Omar Epps · Olivia Wilde · Peter Jacobson · Kal Penn

v • d • e ER Characters Mark Greene · Doug Ross · Susan Lewis · John Carter · Peter Benton · Carol Hathaway · Jeanie Boulet · Kerry Weaver · Anna Del Amico · Elizabeth Corday · Lucy Knight · Robert Romano · Luka Kovač · Cleo Finch · Dave Malucci · Jing-Mei Chen · Abby Lockhart · Michael Gallant · Greg Pratt · Neela Rasgotra · Samantha Taggart · Ray Barnett · Archie Morris · Tony Gates · Simon Brenner · Catherine Banfield Supporting characters Cast Anthony Edwards · George Clooney · Sherry Stringfield · Noah Wyle · Eriq La Salle · Julianna Margulies · Gloria Reuben · Laura Innes · Maria Bello · Alex Kingston · Kellie Martin · Paul McCrane · Goran Visnjic · Michael Michele · Erik Palladino · Ming-Na · Maura Tierney · Sharif Atkins · Mekhi Phifer · Parminder Nagra · Linda Cardellini · Shane West · Scott Grimes · John Stamos · David Lyons · Angela Bassett Episodes Seasons 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 Significant "Chaos Theory" · "The Show Must Go On" · "The Gallant Hero and The Tragic Victor" · "Twenty-One Guns" · "Bloodline" · "And in the End" List of quotes · Michael Crichton · Category

Persondata
NAME	Epps, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Epps, Omar Hashim
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, musician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH