Famous For
Def Comedy Jam Comedian. Film Credits include Next Friday, How High, Friday After Next, All About the Benjamins, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, etc.
Quick Bio
Mike Epps ended up on the Def Comedy Jam tour and starred in two of HBO's Def Comedy Jam broadcasts in 1995. He appeared in an episode of The Sopranos in 1999, the same year the comedian was cast as Ice Cube's co-star (effectively, Chris Tucker's replacement) in the Friday sequel Next Friday. Later that year, he had a cameo in DJ Pooh's 3 Strikes and supported Jamie Foxx in the action comedy Bait. Epps played the bumbling thief to Ice Cube's bounty hunter in the action comedy All about the Benjamins and again re-teamed with the rapper-actor-filmmaker in the continuing Friday saga's latest entry Friday After Next (both 2002).