Mike Epps Movies and Career Information

Michael Eugene "Mike" Epps (born November 18, 1970) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist, singer, rapper, and the host of the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards, best known for portraying Day-Day in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel, Friday After Next, and also starring alongside Ice Cube in All About The Benjamins. Other than his acting, singing, and rapping, he is also known for his sound-alike of Martin Lawrence. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana into a large family, Mike Epps' natural comedic ability was encouraged at an early age, and he began performing stand up as a teenager. He moved to Atlanta where he worked at the Comedy Act Theater, before moving to New York City to star in Def Comedy Jam in 1995. Epps ended up on the Def Comedy Jam tour and starred in two of HBO's Def Comedy Jam broadcasts. With a stop along the way to appear in Vin Diesel's directorial debut, Strays (1997), Epps was well on his way to becoming one of the bigger names in stand-up. Epps appeared in an episode of The Sopranos in 1999, that same year the comedian was cast as Ice Cube's co-star (effectively, Chris Tucker's replacement) in the sequel, Next Friday. Mike headed for Los