Omar Epps is cast on the role of Dr Eric Foreman in the David Shore penned drama House M.D. The african american Dr Foreman is an expert neurologist chosen by Dr Gregory Houseas part of his team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital's Diagnostic Medicine Department. In the first season Foreman is the target of House's barbed wit, mainly around his supposed time in "The Hood" and his ability to steal cars and break into houses.
Dr Eric Foreman is the most qualifies and the oldest and most experienced of the original 'team of three" and is able to stand up to House when the going gets tough. For a short time Forman is put in a supervisory position over House which only leads to him having to do the back log of paperwork House has built up as Head of department. After leaving House's team for a short while he returns as a sort of partner to House in the diagnostics department, at least that is Cuddy's idea. Over the seasons Dr Eric Foreman's character evolves, he becomes more cynical, harder, more unorthodox less caring in fact he starts to become a little bit like House!
Omar Epps was born in July 1973 in Brooklyn and like one of the kids from Fame attended a theatrical schiool from the age of ten. Omar Epps was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Actor for his performance ias Carl Upchurch n the movie "Conviction," he played a hardened criminal from South Philadelphia who spent most of his adult life in prison. Epps formed a production company, Brooklyn Works Films, which is producing the films "Love Can't Hide" and "Serenity Falls," and is in development on the film "The Other Side of the Truth." Epps is serving as writer, producer and star of these films.
Omar Epps has starred in two cable original movies based on true stories: "First Time Felon," directed by Charles "Roc" Dutton, in which he played a streetwise drug dealer and gang member in Chicago; and "Deadly Voyage," produced by Danny Glover, in which he portrayed Kingsley Ofusu, the sole survivor of a group of nine African stowaways who fled Ghana on a Ukrainian cargo ship. The New York Times noted that Epps "played superbly" in the role of Ofusu, whom he was honored to meet prior to filming.
Ironically Dr Foreman isn't Omar Epps' first foray into the world of medecine he also played "Dr. Dennis Gant" on the Emmy Award-winning drama "ER." In one of the most talked-about series departures, Omar Epps left audiences wondering whether his character had committed suicide.
Omar Epps is also no stranger to the big screen, Epps has appeared in lead roles in feature films including "Against the Ropes" opposite Meg Ryan, "Alfie" opposite Jude Law and Susan Sarandon, "The Wood," "In Too Deep," John Singleton's "Higher Learning," "Juice" and "Daybreak." His supporting roles include "Breakfast of Champions" opposite Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte, "Major League II" with Charlie Sheen and "The Program" with Craig Sheffer. He was also seen in "Scream 2," the film version of the television series "The Mod Squad" with Claire Danes, "DK2," "Love & Basketball" and Takeshi Kitano's "Brother," the story of a displaced Yakuza gangster who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a black hustler. Epps also appeared in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Big Trouble," in which he plays an FBI agent with Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Tom Sizemore and Jason Lee.
His next project is the Sticky Fingaz written and directed project A Day in The Life in which he plays the character "O" - for Omar one suspects.
Omar Epps says of his career "I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs."
Epps is single and lives in Los Angeles.
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