Dwayne Johnson Biography:
Born: 2 May 1972
Age : 47 years
Birthplace : Hayward, California, United States
Height: 1.96 m
Partner: Lauren Hashian (2007–)
Spouse: Dany Garcia (m. 1997–2008)
Upcoming movies: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Jumanji 3, Jungle Cruise, Fast & Furious 10
Dwayne Douglas Johnson Not to be confused with Duane Johnson (basketball) was born on May 2, 1972 also known by his ring name (The Rock) is an American actor, producer, and semi-retired professional wrestler. Johnson was a professional wrestler in the WWE for eight years prior to becoming a full-time actor in 2005. Since then, he has become one of the top-grossing and highest-paid actors in the world.
Early Life:
Johnson was born in Hayward, California, to Ata Johnson (née Maivia) and former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles) Growing up, Johnson briefly lived in New Zealand with his mother’s family, where he attended Richmond Road Primary School in Grey Lynn before returning to the United States. He then attended Montclair Elementary School in Charlotte, North Carolina before moving to Hamden, Connecticut where he spent a couple years at Shepherd Glen Elementary School and Hamden Middle School. Johnson spent his high school years in Honolulu, Hawaii at President William McKinley High School, in Nashville, Tennessee at Glen cliff High School and McGavock High School, and in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Freedom High School. He was arrested multiple times for fighting, theft, and check fraud before the age of 17. Johnson also began playing sports, joining his high schools’ gridiron football, track and field and wrestling teams.
Education:
Dwayne attended Richmond Road Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand. After that, he returned to U.S. with his parents and finished 10th grade from President William McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. Johnson also went to the University of Miami to earn a degree in criminology.
Career:
Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, with whom he won a national championship in 1991. He initially aspired for a professional career in football and entered the 1995 NFL Draft but went undrafted. Johnson then signed with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) but was cut from the team in the middle of his first season there. Shortly after, he began training as a professional wrestler.
In 1996, Johnson secured a contract with the WWE when it was known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was promoted as the first third-generation wrestler in the company’s history as he is the son of Rocky Johnson and grandson of Peter Maivia. He rose to prominence after developing a charismatic persona of a boastful trash-talking wrestler named The Rock. He subsequently won his first WWF Championship in 1998 and helped usher the WWF into the “Attitude Era”, a boom period in the company’s business in the latter 1990s and early 2000s which still hold professional wrestling records for television ratings. In 2004, he left the WWE to pursue an acting career and went on a seven-year hiatus before returning in 2011 as a part-time performer until 2013.
Considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers and biggest draws of all-time,The Rock headlined the most bought professional wrestling pay-per-view event, WrestleMania XXVIII, and was featured in some of the most watched WWE Raw and WWE Smack Down television episodes ever. He has won several championships, being a two-time Intercontinental Champion, a five-time tag team champion, and a ten-time world champion. He was also a Royal Rumble match winner and WWE’s sixth Triple Crown champion.
Johnson had his first theatrical acting role in The Mummy Returns (2001) and played his first lead role in the spin-off The Scorpion King (2002). He went on to star in numerous other films, including The Rundown (2003), The Other Guys (2010), Moana (2016), and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). Johnson’s most successful box office role has been a recurring role as Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious movies. He first appeared as the character in Fast Five (2011) and helped catapult the film series into one of the top-grossing movie franchises in history. Johnson has also attained success as an author and produce. In 2000, he released an autobiography titled The Rock Says… which debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. In 2012, he founded his production company, Seven Bucks Productions, which has since produced several films. Consistently ranked among the world’s highest paid actors, Johnson made the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list in both 2016 and 2019.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has shared a first look at the cast of the upcoming sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, slated for a December 2019 release.
In an Instagram post, Johnson informed fans that their “favorite band is back”—and that “things may not be what they seem.”
Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, and Johnson are all featured in the photo, reprising their roles as video game characters Franklin Finbar, Ruby Roundhouse, Professor Oberon, and Dr Bravestone. As in 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome To the Jungle (which was itself a sequel to the 1995 classic), each of these characters is an avatar for a teenager who is playing the game in real life.
Personal Life:
Johnson married Dany Garcia on May 3, 1997.Their only child together, a daughter named Simone, was born in August 2001. On June 1, 2007, they announced they were splitting up amicably. Johnson then began dating Lauren Hashian, daughter of Boston drummer Sib Hashian. They first met in 2006 while Johnson was filming The Game Plan. Their first child together, Jasmine, was born in December 2015; their second child, Tiana, was born in April 2018.
As of 2014, Johnson has a home in Southwest Ranches, Florida, as well as Los Angeles, California. He also owns a farm in Virginia. In 2009, Johnson gained citizenship in Canada in honor of his father’s background. Though Johnson was previously registered as a Republican, he voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 United States presidential elections and is now an independent voter.He stated he did not vote in the 2016 U.S. election.
In recognition of his service to the Samoan people, and because he is a descendant of Samoan chiefs, Johnson had the noble title of Seiuli bestowed upon him by Malietoa Tanumafili II during his visit there in July 2004. He received a partial Samoan pe’a tattoo on his left side in 2003,[287] and, in 2017, had the small “Brahma bull” tattoo on his right arm covered with a larger half-sleeve tattoo of a bull’s skull.
Body Statistics:
The Rock as on 2019 is 47 years old and his sun sign is Taurus. Johnson is 6 feet 2 ½ inches (189 cm ) Tall and weighs around 119 kg (262 lbs.) . He has Dark brown eyes and bald head. One of Johnson distinctive.
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