- Omar was one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, 2006. He was named "Sexiest TV Neurologist"
- Omar Epps' Salary: Love & Basketball (2000) $700,000
- Omar claims he goes to strip clubs with his wife.
- Omar was a backup dancer for Queen Latifah when he was 17 years old.
- Omar won the 2005 NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
- Omar would like to see his character Foreman on House go on a date.
- Omar excelled in a brief recurring role as an emotionally stressed intern on E.R.
- Omar has starred in two HBO Original movies First-Time Felon directed by Charles Roc Dutton and Deadly Voyage produced by Danny Glover.
- It has been announced that Omar will be running as an independent in the 2008 presidential election.
- Omar produced the movie First Time Felon.
- Omar's mother raised him and his sister as a single parent after she separated from his father.
- In the beginning of his career, Omar was frequently cast as sports heroes and troubled teenagers.
- Omar's mother was an elementary school principal.
- Omar's astrological sign is Leo.
- Omar isn't a fan of the House scenes with blood in them. He is finding the sight of blood extremely nauseating - even though he knows it's fake.
- Omar has his own record label named BKNYC Records.
- Omar never did any boxing before the movie Against the Ropes (2004), where he played Luther Shaw (a raw street brute).
- Omar's birthday is at the same day as Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern, and Nomar Garciaparra the baseball player.
- Omar has two children with Keisha Spivey.
- Omar is left-handed.
- Omar belongs to a rap group called Wolfpack. He formed it with his brother in 1991.
- Omar appeared in Deborah Cox's music video for her song, Sentimental in 1995.
- Omar attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts in New York, New York.
- Omar has directed music videos for rappers Heather B. and Special Ed.
- Omar dated Sanaa Lathanin 2001.
- Omar appears in Blackstreet's video, Before I Let You Go.
- Omar's fiance, Keisha Spivey, gave birth to their first child in July 2004. Her name is K'mari Mae.
- Omar was only seventeen when filming the movie Juice.
- Omar co-starred with his ex-girlfriend, Sanaa Lathan in Love and Basketball.
- Omar is 5'10" (177,5 cm).
- Omar's childhood friend was actor Marlon Wayans. They are still friends.
- Omar was featured in the video game: Def Jam Fight For New York.
- Omar currently stars in the hit FOX show: House.
- Omar began writing screenplays at the age of ten. But before that (at seven or eight) he was writing poetry, short stories.
- Omar Epps: (On impressing his wife) I like catching her off guard. Last year for her birthday I gave her a five-figure shopping spree.
- Omar Epps: Before ER a lot of people knew my name and some people knew my face. I saw big difference after ER, like, wow, I didn't know television was that powerful.
- Omar Epps: The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.
- Omar Epps: The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.
- Omar Epps: People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
- Omar Epps: I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It just came naturally. So it's coming full circle.
- Omar Epps: (Newsday, 1999) I'm going to be the first black President of the United States. If Reagan can do it, I know I can.
- Omar Epps: I'm an avid fan of boxing, so the eagerness was there, the desirewas there but I dunno...physically, this was the most I ever put my body through.
- Omar Epps: I believe sucess is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
