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October 17, 1972

Marshall Bruce Mathers III

Kimberly Anne Scott (14 January 2006 - 19 December 2006) (divorced)

Kimberly Anne Scott (14 June 1999 - 11 October 2001) (divorced) 1 child

1996: Infinite

1997: The Slim Shady EP

1999: The Slim Shady LP

2000: The Marshall Mathers LP

2002: The Eminem Show

2004: Encore

2008: King Mathers

2009: Relapse

2010: Relapse 2

Actor:

Crank Yankers (1 episode, 2004)

8 Mile (2002)

The Wash (2001) (uncredited)

The Slim Shady Show (2001)

Producer:

Eminem: Live from New York City (2005) (TV) (executive producer)

50 Cent: The Massacre - Special Edition (2005) (executive producer)

Eminem Presents: The Anger Management Tour (2005) (executive producer)

50 Cent: The New Breed (2003) (executive producer)

Eminem: All Access Europe (2002) (executive producer)

Appearances

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards 2010 (TV)

"Nyhetsmorgon" (1 episode, 2009)

2009 American Music Awards (2009) (TV)

MTV Video Music Awards 2009 (2009) (TV)

Funny People (2009)

"Punkt 12" (1 episode, 2009)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (3 episodes, 2006-2009)

"Le grand journal de Canal+" (1 episode, 2009)

Eminem, Where Have You Been? (2009)

2009 MTV Movie Awards 2009 (TV)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (1 episode, 2009)

TV total (3 episodes, 2004-2009)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2009) (TV)

"Howard Stern on Demand" (1 episode, 2007)

"Planet Voice" (1 episode, 2006)

Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops (2006)

BET Awards 2006 (2006) (TV)

Eminem: Live from New York City (2005) (TV)

"HeatMeter" (1 episode, 2005)

"Video on Trial" (1 episode, 2005)

50 Cent: The Massacre - Special Edition (2005) (segment "Gatman and Robbin'")

Eminem Presents: The Anger Management Tour (2005)

Eminem's Making the Ass (2005) (TV)

MTV Movie Awards 2005 Pre-Show (2005) (TV)

2005 MTV Movie Awards 2005 (TV)

Brit Awards 2005 (2005) (TV)

"The Best Hit USA" (1 episode, 2004)

MTV Europe Music Awards 2004 (2004) (TV)

The Evolution of Eminem (2004) (TV)

The Shady National Convention (2004) (TV)

Saturday Night Live (4 episodes, 1999-2004)

"And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop" (2004) TV mini-series

"Making the Video" (5 episodes, 2000-2004)

2004 MTV Movie Awards 2004 (TV)

Top of the Pops (3 episodes, 2001-2004)

Fromage 2003 (2003) (TV) (segment "Got Some Teeth")

MTV Europe Music Awards 2003 (2003) (TV)

"Interscope Presents 'The Next Episode'" (1 episode, 2003)

2003 Radio Music Awards (2003) (TV)

MTV Movie Special: Tupac Resurrection (2003) (TV)

MTV Bash: Carson Daly (2003) (TV)

2003 MTV Movie Awards 2003 (TV)

50 Cent: The New Breed (2003) (segments "The Detroit Show" and "In Da Club")

Hardware: Uncensored Music Videos - Hip Hop Volume 1 (2003) (segments "Just Don't Give a F**k" and "S**t on You")

The Making of '8 Mile' (2003) (TV)

The 45th Annual Grammy Awards 2003 (TV)

Brit Awards 2003 (2003) (TV)

Battle Rhyme for Reel Time (2003)

"MTV Jammed" (1 episode, 2002)

Guns, God and Government World Tour (2002)

MTV Video Music Awards 2002 (2002) (TV)

Diary Presents: VMA Superstars (2002) (TV)

Eminem: All Access Europe (2002)

2002 MTV Movie Awards 2002 (TV)

"The O'Reilly Factor" (1 episode, 2002)

Hip Hop Uncensored Vol. 3: Hustlemania (2002)

MTV Europe Music Awards 2002 (2002) (TV)

Eminem: Behind the Mask (2001)

Xzibit: Restless Xposed (2001)

The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2001 (2001) (TV)

Source Awards 2001 (2001) (TV)

The Making of Slim Shady's World (2001)

Public Eminem #1 (2001) (TV)

Brit Awards 2001 (2001) (TV)

The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards 2001 (TV)

Eminem: E (2000)

The Up in Smoke Tour (2000)

Da Hip Hop Witch (2000)

Journey of Dr. Dre (2000) (TV)

Eminem: Hitz & Disses (2000)

The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards 2000 (2000) (TV)

MTV Fashionably Loud: Spring Break, Cancun 2000 (2000) (TV)

MTV Video Music Awards 2000 (2000) (TV)

EminemTV (2000) (TV)

MTV Europe Music Awards 1999 (1999) (TV)

"Behind the Music" (1 episode, 1999)

MTV Video Music Awards 1999 (1999) (TV)

The 1999 Source Hip-Hop Music Awards (1999) (TV)

"The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1 episode, 1999)

"Flava" (1 episode, 1999)

Torrance Rises (1999)

Academy Awards

2002 "Lose Yourself" Best Original song Won

American Music Awards

2001 Eminem Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Nominated

2001 Eminem Favorite Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Nominated

2003 Eminem Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist Won

2003 The Eminem Show Favorite Pop/Rock Album Won

2003 Eminem Favorite Hip-Hop/R&B Male Artist Won

2003 The Eminem Show Favorite Hip-Hop/R&B Album Won

2003 Eminem Fan Choice's Award Nominated

2003 Eminem Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Nominated

2005 Eminem Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Won

2005 Encore Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album Won

2006 Eminem Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Won

2006 Curtain Call: the Hits Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album Nominated

2009 Eminem Rap/Hip-Hop Artist of The Year Nominated

2009 Eminem Favorite Male Artist (General Field) Nominated

2009 Eminem Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist Nominated

2009 Relapse Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album Nominated

ASCAP Pop Music Awards

2004 "Lose Yourself" Most Performed Song Won

The Source Hip Hop Music Awards

Lyricist Of The Year - 2000

Music Video Of The Year (Guilty Conscience) - 2000

Best Video of the Year (Stan) - 2001

Lyricist Of The Year - 2002

Lyricist Of The Year - 2005

Online Hip Hop Awards

Best Artist Website (Eminem.com) - 2000

Hottest Music Video (Guilty Conscience) - 2000

Best New Artist (Hot 97 Picks) - 2000

Brit Awards

International male - 2001

International Male Solo Artist - 2003

International Album (The Eminem Show) - 2003

International male - 2004

International male - 2005

International male - 2009 (nominated)

Billboard Music Awards

2001 Maximum Vision Award: "The Real Slim Shady"

2001 Best Rap Hip Hop Clip: "The Real Slim Shady"

2002 Album of the Year: The Eminem Show

2002 R&B/Hip Hop Album of the Year: The Eminem Show

2002 Best Album: The Eminem Show

2003 Best Rap Album: The Eminem Show

2003 Best Album - "The Eminem Show"

2003 Best R&B/Hip Hop Album (The Eminem Show)

2003 Best Album's Artist

2009 Billboard's Artist of the Decade

2009 Billboard's 200 Artist of the Decade

Detroit Music Awards

2001 Outstanding National Major Label Recording: The Marshall Mathers LP

2001 Outstanding National Single: "The Real Slim Shady"

2003 Outstanding National Single: "Lose Yourself"

2005 Outstanding National Major Label Recording: Encore

2006 Outstanding Video / Major Budget: "When I'm Gone"

Grammy Awards

2000 Best Rap Solo Performance: "My Name Is"

2000 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Guilty Conscience" (with Dr. Dre) (nominated)

2000 Best Rap Album: The Slim Shady LP

2001 Best Rap Solo Performance: "The Real Slim Shady"

2001 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Forgot About Dre" (with Dr. Dre)

2001 Best Rap Album: The Marshall Mathers LP

2001 Album of the Year: The Marshall Mathers LP (nominated)

2003 Best Short Form Music Video: "Without Me" (directed by Joseph Kahn)

2003 Best Rap Solo Performance: "Without Me" (nominated)

2003 Record of the Year: "Without Me" (nominated)

2003 Best Rap Album: The Eminem Show

2003 Album of the Year: The Eminem Show (nominated)

2004 Best Rap Solo Performance: "Lose Yourself"

2004 Best Rap song: "Lose Yourself"

2004 Record of the Year: "Lose Yourself" (nominated)

2004 Song of the Year: "Lose Yourself" (nominated)

2004 Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: "Lose Yourself" (nominated)

2005 Best Rap Solo Performance: Just Lose It (nominated)

2006 Best Rap Album: Encore (nominated)

2006 Best Rap Solo Performance: Mockingbird (nominated)

2006 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Encore/Curtains Down" (with Dr. Dre & 50 Cent) (nominated)

2007 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Smack That" (with Akon) (nominated)

2007 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Shake That" (with Nate Dogg) (nominated)

2010 Best Rap Solo Performance: "Beautiful" (nominated)

2010 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Crack A Bottle" (with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent) (won)

2010 Best Rap Album: Relapse (won)

Juno Awards

2001 Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic): The Marshall Mathers LP

2003 International Album of the Year: The Eminem Show

MTV Europe Music Awards

1999 Best Hip-hop Act

2000 Best Hip-hop Act

2000 Best Album: The Marshall Mathers LP

2001 Best Hip-hop Act

2002 Best Male Act

2002 Best Hip-hop Act

2002 Best Album: The Eminem Show

2003 Best Hip-hop Act

2004 Best Hip-hop Act: D12

2009 Best Male Act

MTV Movie Awards

2003 Best Male Performance: 8 Mile

2003 Breakthrough Male: 8 Mile

MTV Video Music Awards

1999 Best New Artist: "My Name Is"

2000 Best Video: "The Real Slim Shady"

2000 Best Male Video: "The Real Slim Shady"

2000 Best Rap Video: "Forgot About Dre" (with Dr. Dre)

2002 Best Video: "Without Me"

2002 Best Male Video: "Without Me"

2002 Best Rap Video: "Without Me"

2002 Best Direction: "Without Me"

2003 Best Video From a Film: "Lose Yourself"

2009 Best Hip Hop Video: "We Made You"

Teen Choice Awards

2005 Choice Music Rap Artist

2005 Choice Music Rap Track: "Mockingbird"

2003 Choice Movie Breakout Star - Male for 8 Mile

2003 Choice Movie Actor - Drama/Action Adventure for 8 Mile

2009 Choice Favourite Album - Relapse (Nominated)

Much Music Video Awards

Favourite International Artist 2001- "The Real Slim Shady"

Best International Artist Video 2001 - "Stan"

People's Choice: Favourite International Artist 2003 - (Lose Yourself)

MOBO Awards

2009, Best Hip-Hop Act: (Nominated)

2009, Best International Act: (Nominated)

People's Choice Awards

Favorite Male Musical Performer - 2003 and 2005

Favorite Male Performer - 2003

Favorite Hip Hop Song - 2007 "Smack That"

Favorite Hip Hop artist - 2010

NRJ Radio Award

Best International Male Artist - 2005

Best International Song for "Without Me" (2003)

Vibe Magazine

Best Rapper Alive (2008)

Best Rapper Ever (2009)

Tattoo Awards

Best Artist 2009 (Nominated)

World Music Awards

World's Best Selling Rap Artist (2001)

World's Best Selling Pop/Rock Artist (2005)

World's Best Selling Rap/Hip-hop Artist (2005)

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From Elvis Presley to N.W.A. to Marilyn Manson, many a rock and rap artist has flirted with and even flaunted controversy - but never with the uniform gusto and unapologetic panache of Eminem. On his 1999 major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP (#2 pop, #1 R&B), the Detroit-based white rapper spared nobody his verbal crosshairs, including not only his detractors but himself; Kim, his wife and the mother of his daughter; and his own mother (who later ended up filing a defamation of character lawsuit against him). The following year's doubly venomous The Marshall Mathers LP (#1 pop, #1 R&B) raised/lowered the bar even more, drawing intense protest from gay, lesbian, religious, and women's groups, even as it became the fastest-selling rap album of all time and topped many critics' year-end-best-of lists.

Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. He never knew his father and was raised along with a younger half-brother by his mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, who moved the family to a predominately black neighborhood on the East side of Detroit when Mathers was 11. Although he was bullied and harassed by other kids on a regular basis, Mathers found a handful of friends who recognized his rhyming skills, and after failing ninth grade three years in a row, he dropped out of school and began competing in local freestyle throw-downs with his crew, the Dirty Dozen.

He released his first solo album, Infinite, on the local Web Entertainment label in 1996. It failed to garner much attention, but the followup, 1998's The Slim Shady EP, so impressed N.W.A. alum and rap icon Dr. Dre that he signed Eminem to his Interscope imprint, Aftermath. The EP was expanded into the Dre-coproduced The Slim Shady LP, which debuted on the pop chart at #3 in February 1999 and went on to sell 3 million copies and win Eminem a Grammy for Best Rap Album. Like the EP before it, the album showcased Eminem's maniacal double ego Slim Shady - a homicidal comedian through whom Mathers enacted his most outrageous and perverse revenge fantasies. The catchy lead single "My Name Is" (#18 R&B) was a huge crossover success, climbing to #36 on the Hot 100 and eventually winning a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. Meanwhile, moral watchdogs loudly protested darker fare on the album like "'97 Bonnie And Clyde," in which Eminem sings lovingly to his baby daughter while enroute to dump her murdered mother in a body of water.

The combination of Eminem's unique, behind-the-beat nasal flow (many critics and artists, both black and white, hailed him as one of the best MCs in the world), crossover appeal, and willingness to attack and offend anything in his way without prejudice quickly established the young rapper as a seemingly unstoppable phenomenon - a fact further proven when The Marshall Mathers LP debuted at the top of the chart in 2000 with close to 1.7 million copies sold its first week in stores.

The monster crossover hit came with "The Real Slim Shady" (#4 pop, #11 R&B, 2000), while the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) led the protest charge, extremely alarmed over a recurring theme of hateful homophobia throughout the album. The debate peaked when openly gay rocker - and outspoken Eminem fan - Elton John performed with the rapper at the 2001 Grammy Awards ceremony (where Eminem won his second Best Rap Album but lost Album of the Year to Steely Dan). Together, Eminem and John performed the song "Stan," a cautionary tale about a disturbed fan taking Eminem's violent Slim Shady fantasies too seriously. The album version of "Stan" drew its disarmingly pretty chorus from the song "Thank You" by English singer/songwrite Dido, whose own career subsequently took off due to the exposure.

In the midst of all his critical and commercial success and the controversy stirred up over his lyrics, Eminem was besieged by lawsuits and run-ins with the law. In addition to his mother's defamation suit, Mathers was also sued by his estranged wife (the girlfriend he "killed" in "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" and again in "Kim" from the Marshall Mathers LP). The couple later reconciled and his wife dropped the suit, but, the pair eventually divorced in 2001. Meanwhile, Mathers pleaded guilty to charges of carrying a concealed weapon in a criminal case stemming from a June 2000 incident in which he allegedly assaulted a man outside of a nightclub for kissing his wife. He received two years' probation.

The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers).

Favorite movie of all time is Scarface (1983).