Profile:
Born: April 3 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Star sign: Aries.
Parents: His father was a police officer who died when Murphy was three, his mother Lillian is a telephone operator who remarried an ice cream factory foreman.
Education: Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School in New York where he was voted most popular student. Also attended Nassau Community College.
Previous jobs: Salesman in a shoe shop.
Lives: In a pounds 6 million eight-bedroom house called Bubble Hill in New Jersey.
Love life: Married model Nicole Mitchell in 1993, they have three children. Has a child with Tamara Moore and once dated actress Halle Berry.
