William James Murray is an American actor and comedian, known for his deadpan delivery.
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Bill Murray rose to fame on The National Lampoon Radio Hour before becoming a national presence on Saturday Night Live from 1977 to 1980, where he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.
Bill Murray starred in comedy films such as:
- Meatballs (1979),
- Caddyshack (1980),
- Stripes (1981),
- Tootsie (1982),
- Ghostbusters (1984),
- Scrooged (1988),
- Ghostbusters II (1989),
- What About Bob? (1991),
- Groundhog Day (1993),
- Kingpin (1996),
- The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) and
- Osmosis Jones (2001).
Bill Murray’s performance in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) earned him a Golden Globe and a British Academy Film Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Bill Murray has frequently collaborated with directors Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, John McNaughton and the Farrelly brothers.
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Bill Murray received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in Ghostbusters, Rushmore (1998), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), St. Vincent (2014) and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), for which he later won his second Primetime Emmy Award.
Bill Murray received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2016.
Bill Murray is also known for voicing Garfield in the family comedy film Garfield: The Movie (2004) and its sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), Clive Badger in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Baloo in the live action adaptation of Disney’s The Jungle Book (2016) and Boss in Isle of Dogs (2018).
For his personal life, Bill Murray has had 6 children with two ladies.
Bill Murray married Margaret Kelly on January 25, 1981 and the couple gave birth to two sons, Homer and Luke.
However, following Bill Murray’s affair with Jennifer Butler, Murray and Kelly divorced in 1996.
In 1997, Bill Murray married Butler and together, they have four sons: Caleb, Jackson, Cooper, and Lincoln.
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