The film chronicles how Smith overcame her tempestuous personal life to become one of the most acclaimed performing and recording artists of the 1920s and ’30s, earning the nickname Empress of the Blues. Mike was seen in the HBO-Emmy Winning biopic “Bessie” based on Bessie Smith, played by Queen Latifah. In 2019, his fifth stand up special “Just One Mike” premiered on Netflixs he last fall he was seen opposite Eddie Murphy in the comedy “Dolemite is my Name” which was nominated for Golden Globe, Broadcast Film Critic Awards and a NAACP Image Award. He was recently seen in the Amazon feature “Troup Zero” starring opposite Viola Davis, Allison Janney, and Jim Gaffigan and in the A24 film “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” which both premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The book is written by Mike about his life and childhood growing up in poverty and how comedy saved his life. In 2022 his sixth stand up special will premiere on Netflix. The show is based on his life of growing up in Indiana and taken from his 2018 Harper Collins autobiography Unsuccessful Thug. Mike can be seen in the Netflix comedy “The UpShaws” which he stars in and produces.
Mike Epps is generating an extraordinary amount of buzz among his peers for being not only one of the funniest comic actors in town, but also for his burgeoning dramatic talent.
