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April 3: Eddie Murphy, 60
This comic icon rose to fame on Saturday Night Live and went on to a box-office-busting career, starting with 1982's 48 Hrs. He earned his lone Oscar bid in a rare dramatic role as a doomed singer in the 2006 musical Dreamgirls. After a lull, Murphy came back with a bang in 2019 as blaxploitation pioneer Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name and reunited with Arsenio Hall for the new sequel Coming 2 America.
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April 12: Shannen Doherty, 50
This actress's first major film was 1988's dark high school comedy Heathers, which propelled her to her signature role a few years later as Brenda Walsh in the teen drama Beverly 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 series Charmed. 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.