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Eric "E" Murphy (Kevin Connolly)

Gender: Male
Occupation: Talent Manager / Talent Agent
* First appeared on July 18, 2004.

Eric, Vince's best friend since they were both six, works as Vincent's manager. Vincent credits Eric for pushing him to become an actor when they were in the third grade. At Vincent's request, Eric moved to Los Angeles from Queens, where he was working as a night manager at a Sbarro pizzeria. (When asked what he used to do before coming to Los Angeles, Eric often euphemistically replies that he "managed an Italian restaurant.") Feeling the increasing pressures outside of just acting, Vincent wanted his best friend to help him with business and logistical decisions. Vince often says that Eric knows him better than anyone else; Rita Chase becomes known as Eric's "other mother". Eric is of Irish descent

In season one, Eric serves informally as Vince's manager. In the first season finale, Eric insists on formalizing the relationship; Vince gives E a ten percent commission, plus health benefits. While this new financial bias could potentially skew Eric's actions, his devotion to his best friend transcends the money. This often puts him at odds with Vincent's more avaricious agent, Ari Gold, but the two of them are willing to co-exist for Vince's sake. Although not a Hollywood insider, Eric strives to become a seasoned manager. Eric hates being referred to as a "Suit" especially by Billy Walsh, Ari and Eric are capable of seeing eye to eye on issues like Vince doing "Aquaman" and keeping his behaviour from ruining the film.

Season 4 saw Eric achieve more character development than ever, as he made the leap from manager to movie producer when he was tapped by Vince to co-produce Medellin, the story of real-life Colombian drug dealer Pablo Escobar, in which Vince is in the lead role. However, after producing the movie, Eric decides that he can't stand the attitude of the director Billy Walsh to produce on another movie and goes back to being a manager. Not only that, Eric felt that Walsh had "fucked up Medellin," especially after Eric attempted to suggest changes to the film, only to be rejected before even getting a sentence out since Walsh has final cut. In the final episode of Season 4, The Cannes Kids, the guys arrive at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Medellin. Eric seemed to be in full support of the film, even though, somewhere deep in the back of his head, he knew it would bomb, and indeed it did.

Unlike the rest of the entourage, Eric tends to pursue lasting relationships with women, although he is not above the occasional one night stand. He briefly dated Ari's assistant, Emily. He spent much of season one and part of season two working through a relationship with his girlfriend, Kristen, that ended after she admitted that she cheated while he was in New York filming Queens Boulevard. In season two and three, Eric dated Sloan, the daughter of Ari's former partner at the agency. At the beginning of season four, Eric said that he and Sloan are "on a break", however it is revealed later in the season that they have indeed broken up and that Sloan has moved on.

Since then, Eric has been busy in expanding his job function, getting an office and even starting "The Murphy Group". He has also finally been recognized as Vincent Chase's manager, thanks to an expose on him in the Daily Variety. He briefly signed Anna Faris as a client before being fired for a conflict of interests regarding Billy and Vince's third movie. In the Season 4 season finale, Eric ends up correct about Medellin. With Yair backing out after seeing how poorly it was received by the viewers at the screening, the film is ultimately sold to Harvey Weingard for back-door price of one dollar. Noticing the gang's disappointment walking out of the theater, Ari does his best to lighten the mood by saying Harvey is the man they want to pull them out of the hole, adding: "You should've seen Shakespeare in Love before he put his scissorhands on it."

In Season 5, Eric and his company The Murphy Group took on a lot more clients including two writers and a former stand-up comedian. One of Eric's newest clients is Charlie Williams, an up and coming stand-up comedian turned actor, who is played by hip-hop/R&B singer turned actor Shad Moss. During season 5 Eric helped land Charlie a spot on a new T.V series called Venice about skateboarders living around Venice Beach, California.