Omar Epps
Also Known As: Omar Hashim Epps, Ομάρ Εππες, Ομάρ Επς, 오마 엡스, عمر اپس
Biography: Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor, rapper, and producer. Epps's film roles include Juice, Higher Learning, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love & Basketball. His television work includes the role of Dr Dennis Gant in the medical drama series ER, J. Martin Bellamy in Resurrection, Dr Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012, Isaac Johnson in the TV series Shooter from 2016 to 2018, and Detective Malcolm Howard on the Starz crime drama Power Book III: Raising Kanan. He has been awarded nine NAACP Image Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, one MTV Movie Award, one Black Reel Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Omar Epps, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: July 20, 1973
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Male
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Brother
Overview: A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-13
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Big Trouble
Overview: The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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Dracula 2000
Overview: When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Major League II
Overview: After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! However, they first have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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A Day in the Life
Overview: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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In Too Deep
Overview: Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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Against the Ropes
Overview: A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Alfie
Overview: A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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Love & Basketball
Overview: Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Perfume
Overview: A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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The Wood
Overview: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-16
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Juice
Overview: Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-17
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Higher Learning
Overview: African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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The Mod Squad
Overview: Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Daybreak
Overview: When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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The Program
Overview: Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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First Time Felon
Overview: Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than he thought it would be. He braves it through and comes home a better man. He then has to deal with the real world, and never gives up no matter what the odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-06
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Conviction
Overview: The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-29
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The Devil You Know
Overview: Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s failings, end up in the crosshairs of a seasoned but jaded detective.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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Deadly Voyage
Overview: When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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The Deliverance
Overview: Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-16
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Breakfast of Champions
Overview: A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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Scream 2
Overview: Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Almost Christmas
Overview: A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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House: Swan Song
Overview: A one-hour retrospective special that will look back at this groundbreaking, seminal series and feature interviews with the series' stars and producers, special original content and other surprises.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-21
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Traffik
Overview: A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Overview: When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Trick
Overview: A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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3022
Overview: A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space struggle to cope after Earth suffers an extinction-level event.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Fatal Affair
Overview: After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus. But she finds herself caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse when the encounter escalates into an obsession that jeopardizes everyone she loves.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-16
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The Green Flash
Overview: When a runaway orphan encounters a hoodlum on-the-lamb in Coney Island, their chance encounter becomes a life changing event for them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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Moses the Black
Overview: A gangster in modern day Chicago, inspired by the repentance story of the fifth-century saint of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
Overview: Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 2021
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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