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Omar Hashim Epps is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and record producer with a net worth of $15 million. His film roles include The Wood, Juice, Higher Learning, Love and Basketball, and In Too Deep. His TV work includes the role of Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012, Dr. Dennis Gant on the medical drama series ER and J. Martin Bellamy in Resurrection.
Epps was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents divorced, and his mother, Bonnie Maria Epps, an elementary school principal, raised him. He lived in different neighborhoods as he grew up (Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, and East Flatbush ). He became a member of a rap group called Wolfpack before he started acting. When he was ten, he began writing poetry, short stories and songs. He came from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Epps got a role on the hit television drama ER and played Dr. Dennis Gant, a troubled surgical intern. After working on ER, Epps returned to the big screen in 1997 as a moviegoer on a date with a lady played by Jada Pinkett. She ends up an early victim of a psycho slasher in the blockbuster sequel Scream 2. In 1997 Epps became the star of the HBO fact-based movie First Time Felon. He played the role of a small-time criminal who goes through Chicago's boot camp reform system. Afterward, he undertook a heroic flood rescue and adjusted to the re-entering society with the mark of an ex-con.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2018 |
Others |
Sales of the video Traffik as John |
$1,320,000 |
|
2018 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Traffik as John |
$9,560,000 |
|
2016 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Almost Christmas as Malachi |
$42,490,000 |
|
2011 |
Salary |
Salary for every episode of the television show House as Dr. Eric Foreman |
$175,000 |
|
2010 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Conviction as Carl Upchurch |
$6,780,000 |
|
2007 |
Asset |
Purchase value of Omar Epps' six-bedroom, grand Mediterranean-style house at 5335 Leghorn Avenue |
$2,200,000 |
|
2005 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Daybreak as Hunter |
$7,000 |
|
2004 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movies Alfie as Marlon and Against the Ropes as Luther Shaw |
$41,750,000 |
|
2002 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Big Trouble as FBI Agent Alan Seitz |
$7,270,000 |
|
2001 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Brother as Denny |
$450,590 |
|
2000 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Love & Basketball as Quincy McCall and box office sales of the movie Dracula 2000 as Marcus |
$60,730,000 |
|
1999 |
Salary |
Salary from the movie Love & Basketball as Quincy McCall |
$700,000 |
|
1999 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movies The Wood as Mike, In Too Deep as Jeff Cole or J. Reid and The Mod Squad as Linc |
$39,000,000 |
|
1998 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Breakfast of Champions as Wayne Hoobler |
$178,280 |
|
1997 |
Box Office Sales |
Worldwide box office sales of the movie Scream 2 as Phil |
$172,360,000 |
|
1996 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as Malik |
$20,110,000 |
|
1995 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Higher Learning as Malik Williams |
$38,290,000 |
|
1994 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Major League II as Willie Mays Hayes |
$30,630,000 |
|
1993 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie The Program as Darnell Jefferson |
$23,000,000 |
|
1992 |
Box Office Sales |
Box office sales of the movie Juice as Q |
$20,150,000 |