Omar Epps: career and filmography

A talented and hardworking actor, composer and screenwriter Omar Epps has been acting in films since 1992. His partners on the site were Tupac Shakur, Charlie Sheen, Jude Law, Bruce Willis and Meg Ryan. However, neither promising projects, nor star duets did not bring the desired recognition. The situation dramatically changed with the appearance of the actor in the television series about the brilliant diagnostician Dr. House.

Carier start

Omar Epps was born in 1973 in Brooklyn (New York). Acting career attracted the boy from the very early age. A creative and comprehensively developed child tried to realize himself. Already from the age of ten Omar writes stories, poems and even tries himself in the popular genre of comics drawing in the West. At the age of 18, he creates a hip-hop music group.

The first role of Omar was in the short film "Green Flash". A serious actor's debut is the main role in the film "Authority", where Tupac Shakur was the partner of the site at Omar.

To some extent, the film "Authority" (in some sources translated literally as "Juice"), leaves its imprint on the future work of the actor. Behind him is fixed the role of a difficult teenager. Also, Eppsu is often offered the roles of athletes and athletes.

Sports, vampires and gangsters

In 2000, on the big screens, a sports melodrama "Love and Basketball" was released. Omar Epps plays a young basketball player, striving for a sports career in the NBA. For her, he throws his beloved girl and immerses himself in the training. But, as the law of the genre requires, after some time young people again meet. And now the main character faces a serious choice - to get close to the beloved or to part, this time for good.

Although the plot is not original, but thanks to the brilliant game Epps and his partner in the film, Sanae Lathan, he takes a worthy place in the world's film distribution. And Omar is nominated for the prestigious "Best Actor" nomination according to the version of "Film Choise". This was especially important for the actor, as his previous film "Breakfast for Champions" was frankly a failure.

From this moment, the success curve begins to slowly, but surely, to aspire upwards. In the same year, the horror film "Dracula 2000" is released, in which Omar Epps plays a significant role. Films "Brother Yakuza", "Do not threaten the southern central, sipping juice in your neighborhood" and "At the bottom of the abyss" - criminal dramas in which Epps appears in the already familiar and so well-received from him the role of the bad guy.

Work in the "First Aid"

For the first time Omar Epps tried on a doctor's dressing gown in the cult series "Ambulance". There, the actor starred in several episodes of the third season, performing the role of Dennis Gant - surgeon-trainee. However, he did not stay there for long. In the middle of the season Epps's character commits suicide.

After eight years, Omar receives a similar role in the series - the role of a neurosurgeon physician. It is approved only three days before the filming began. His finest hour is coming. Because it is after participating in the popular worldwide series "Doctor House" Omar Epps is gaining real fame.

Dr. House and Eric Foreman

In the series Omar plays Dr. Foreman - one of the doctors in the team of the diagnostician Dr. House. Here the actor fully manifests himself as a true master of the psychological image. After all, Eric Foreman is not at all a simple character. He is talented and ambitious and, at the same time, stoically demolishes the headmaster's endless ridicule. He tirelessly argues with House (which rarely allows himself), but in the depths of his soul he admires his genius. Condemning the vital position of the boss, he subconsciously adopts not only his methods, but his manners. And when they point to it, he denies it first, and then, realizing the justice of the reproach, suffers from internal contradictions.