Birth Name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Nationality: American
Date: October 17, 1973
Birth Place: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Occupation: singer, songwriter, actor
Education: Lincoln High School in Warren (1986-1989)
Osbourne High School
Wife: Kimberly Scott (separated on August 29, 2000; reunited again on December 15, 2000; filed for divorce on March 1, 2001)
Daughter: Haile Jade Scott (born December 25, 1995)
Claim to fame: The Slim Shady EP (1999)

Facts about Eminem:

Eminem wants a Michigan judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a playground peer who allegedly taunted and terrorized him back when the two were in grade school – The rapper is expected to appear in Macomb County Circuit Court before Judge Deborah Servitto on August 18 to ask her to toss the suit filed in 2001 by DeAngelo Bailey. (August 5, 2003)

Eminem and Cypress Hill's B-Real have recorded the song 911 with veteran rap outfit Boo Yaa Tribe which will appear on the latter's upcoming album, West Kosta Nostra. (July 17, 2003)

Eminem is presently facing a lawsuit from a Nevada-based sports apparel company over the usage of the name Shady Ltd. for his new clothing line -- Eminem's lawyer, Manny Pokotilow, believes Eminem will prevail in court because the rapper has been using the Shady name since 1996 and in 1999 the rapper registered the Slim Shady trademark. (July 16, 2003)

Eminem has purchased a 15,000-square-foot mansion located about 20 miles from Detroit that was last owned by former Kmart Corp. chairman Chuck Conaway – He reportedly paid $4.8 million for the home. (July 10, 2003)

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, praised Eminem on Monday when he was speaking before the start of the Prince of Wales' Educational Summer School in Norwich, calling the rapper as influential in popular culture as Bob Dylan and John Lennon had been in their heydays. (July 1, 2003)

Eminem managed to spin the rap star rags-to-riches yarn to great success in 8 MILE and he has now opened the flood gates for a torrent of imitations -- Rapper du jour, 50 Cent, has declared himself the first to repeat the formula and, along with Sopranos writer Terry Winter, plans to bring his life story to the movies. (June 26, 2003)

Eminem stunned tens of thousands of people attending a concert in England by giving a necklace estimated at $450,000 to one of his fans -- I'm going to give this to the sexiest woman I see, Eminem said from the stage of the concert attended by 65,000 fans in Milton Keynes city on Monday night. (June 25, 2003)

Eminem and Dr. Dre take the number 2 slot at this year's Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List, earning $35 million, but with nearly 2 million web hits. (June 20, 2003)

Eminem has his sights set on video games -- The first title from his deal with Conspiracy Entertainment, Mix TV Presents: Eminem, debuts Wednesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. (May 15, 2003)

Eminem's 8 MILE is poised to become a stage musical – He has given his approval for the film to be turned into a musical production, although there are no plans for him to take to the stage himself, but the singer will be bestowed with the title of executive producer. (May 9, 2003)

Eminem, together with 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes, has released a remake of Tupac Shakur's Hail Mary as a response to Ja Rule's dis record, Warrior's Song (Loose Change) -- The Hail Mary remake features an intro by Chris Lighty of Violator Records & Management, who manages 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes. (April 15, 2003)

Dr. Dre, Eminem, Interscope Records, and Universal Music And Video Distribution were hit with an amended copyright-infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles District Court last week by Minder Music Ltd., a London-based music publisher -- Minder alleges that Dr. Dre's Let's Get High, which was co-written by Eminem, illegally used segments of the 1980 tune Backstrokin'. (April 11, 2003)

Eminem is due in Michigan's Court next month to defend himself against lawsuit filed in December of 2001 by DeAngelo Bailey, who maintains that Eminem defamed him and damaged his career as an aspiring rapper when he depicted Bailey as a bully and his nemesis in junior high school. (April 10, 2003)

Even before Eminem's Lose Yourself won the Oscar for best song Sunday night, the 8 MILE DVD was selling and renting at a record pace -- Consumers spent more than $75 million on the Universal Studios Home Video release, the most ever for an R-rated movie in the first week and among the top 10 overall, according to the studio. (March 26, 2003)

Eminem issued thankful statement after failing to show up to collect his best song Oscar – It was his cowriter Luis Resto who did the speechifying, taking the stage dressed in very un-celebrity-like attire (a red-and-blue Detroit Pistons jersey with a gray overcoat instead of traditional black-tie) to accept the first Oscar ever bestowed on a hip-hop artist. (March 26, 2003)

Eminem has set a new record, after sales of his 8 Mile DVD generated a whopping $40 million on its very first day of release -- The DVD, which was released on Tuesday, set a record for an R- rated film as more than 2 million DVDs were sold in a single day. (March 22, 2003)

Eminem won two honors at the Brit Awards 2003: best international album for The Eminem Show and best international male solo artist.

An automobile dealership is offering a find for Eminem fans: a chance to buy a Chevrolet Camaro he once owned -- A portion of the sale price will be donated to the Marshall Mathers Foundation, which helps troubled kids. (February 8, 2003)

Brave enough to try out his acting chops for director Curtis Hanson, Eminem has beaten even the dark power of Mordor by toppling LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS off the top spot in the UK box office charts -- 8 MILE took £4 million in its opening weekend plus a not unsubstantial £500,000 from paid preview screenings. (January 22, 2003)

Eminem was honored for Best Song for 8 MILE's Lose Yourself at the 2003 Critics' Choice Awards held Friday at the Beverly Hills Hilton, in Beverly Hills. (January 20, 2003)

Eminem swept the 30th annual American Music Awards Monday, winning all four categories in which he was nominated: Favorite Artist and Album in Pop/Rock and Hip-Hop/R&B -- but he was one of several key winners who did not appear at the Shrine Auditorium event. (January 15, 2003)

Eminem owned 2002, so why wouldn't his soundtrack finish the year on top? -- the rapper, whose film, and two albums topped $300 million in combined sales for 2002, dethroned last week's chart champ Shania Twain with his 8 Mile soundtrack, but Shania's five-week rule was an impressive feat since the country-pop star never had a number one album until this latest release. (January 3, 2003)

Kim Basinger has incurred the wrath of 8 MILE co-star Eminem's mother because Debbie Mathers claims she portrays her falsely – Debbie is upset after watching the film, partly because Kim has a beer in her hand in the film but Debbie hardly drinks (January 2, 2003)

His The Eminem Show is the year’s top-selling album – the album, featuring Without Me and Cleanin' Out My Closet sold far more than any other according to year-end figures this week from Nielsen SoundScan: more than 7.4 million copies. (December 28, 2002)

Eminem, who returned with this year's The Eminem Show, and hip-hop star Nelly -- back on top with his disc, Nellyville – led the 30th American Music Awards as both artists scored four nominations apiece. (November 20, 2002)

The soundtrack to Eminem's blockbuster film debut, 8 MILE, remained eight miles high on the album chart this week, fighting off strong challenges from the solo debut of Justin Timberlake and a two-CD hits collection from U2 (November 15, 2002)

Eminem swept the board at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday night, landing three of the coveted awards before a global television audience of more than one billion people -- Best Male, Best Hip Hop and Best Album. (November 15, 2002)

Eminem has proved to be such a success with his new film 8 MILE, movie bosses are now hoping that he'll return for a sequel. (November 14, 2002)

Eminem grabbed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office on Sunday as his feature film debut 8 MILE sold $54.5 million worth of tickets in its first three days -- in addition to that, Eminem is also king of the U.S. pop charts with the 8 MILE soundtrack. (November 11, 2002)

“Cleaning Out My Closet, a new tell-all book by Michigan secretary J.R. Watkins, Eminem’s former female friend of who claims to be the performer's closest confidante, will go on sale Tuesday, just days before the opening of Eminem's semiautobiographical flick 8 MILE -- the unauthorized biography details what Watkins alleges were Eminem's affairs with pop diva Mariah Carey and his 8 MILE co-star Brittany Murphy, as well as his ex-wife Kim's drug problem and open sexual lifestyle. (November 4, 2002)

Eminem turned into a demanding star on the set of his new movie 8 MILE -- according to British newspaper The Sun, the rap star repeatedly threw fits on the set of the flick, insisted on having three personal trailers and never showed up on time. (November 2, 2002)

Eminem put in a surprise personal appearance at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Mich., late last week, following an advance screening of his upcoming film, 8 MILE. (October 17, 2002)

After two months out of the top slot, Eminem rose back into the number one position on the charts, a place THE EMINEM SHOW originally held for its first five weeks out and nearly missed doing in the mid of August 2002.
The rapper benefits from a new music video, theatrical trailers for his upcoming feature film 8 MILE and promo hype for the MTV Music Video Awards in August 28th 2002.

He produces and raps in his own band called D12.

D12 are 6 black men who EMINEM used to compete against in local Detroit rapping contests.

Marshall was regularly bullied at school and at the age of 8 he was put into intensive care for 10 days after being beaten so badly by a fellow school mate.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (aka Eminem) has a brother who is 15 years old and he is called Nathan
Eminem is left handed.

Eminem is is among more than 90 artists of every genre, including Madonna, Britney Spears, Nelly, Missy Elliott, Dixie Chicks, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Luciano Pavarotti, Brian Wilson and Natalie Cole that are participating in an aggressive educational campaign organized by the Music United For Strong Internet Copyright Coalition (MUSIC) to combat the epidemic of illegal music downloading. (September 27, 2002)

Personal quotes
Asked if his audience demographic has shifted, Eminem, who reportedly loathes being compared to Elvis, responded: "It used to range from 10 years old to 25. Now it seems to be from 5 years old to 55."

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who took up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."

"Every now and then one motherf***er comes along and now that motherf***er happens to be me."

“Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.”

Awards
Won best video from a film at 2003 MTV Awards for Lose Yourself.
Won Breakthrough Male for his starring role in 8 MILE and the Best Male Performance awards at MTV Movie Awards (June 2003)
Won an Oscar in 2003 for best movie theme song for Lose Yourself from his semi-autobiographical film 8 MILE.
Won two Grammy Awards in 2003: Best Rap Album for The Eminem Show and Best Short Form Music Video for “Without Me.”.
Won best international album for The Eminem Show and best international male solo artist at the 2003 Brit Awards.
Honored for Best Song for 8 MILE's Lose Yourself at the 2003 Critics' Choice Awards