April 3: Eddie Murphy, 60
This comic icon rose to fame onSaturday Night Liveand went on toa box-office-busting career, starting with 1982’s48 Hrs.
He earned his lone Oscar bid in a rare dramatic role as a doomed singer in the 2006 musicalDreamgirls.After a lull, Murphy came back with a bang in 2019 as blaxploitation pioneer Rudy Ray Moore inDolemite Is My Nameand reunited with Arsenio Hall for the new sequelComing 2 America.
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April 12: Shannen Doherty, 50
This actress’s first major film was 1988’s dark high school comedyHeathers, which propelled her to her signature role a few years later as Brenda Walsh in the teen dramaBeverly Hills, 90210.
Her other big project began in 1998, when she joined Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs as good-witch sisters on the hit TV seriesCharmed.
Doherty has been candid about her ongoing battle with breast cancer, which she announced had returned in February 2020, and is vocal about breast cancer awareness and supporting cancer research.
