Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) Biography, Wrestling, Films, & Facts

 

Biography, Age, Wife, Parents, Children, Siblings, Net Worth, House, Cars, Movies, Nationality & Height

Dwayne Johnson, often known as The Rock, is a successful actor and professional wrestler from the United States. He was born on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California.

Johnson was from a wrestling-related family. In the 1960s and 1970s, "High Chief" Peter Maivia, his maternal grandpa, made his professional debut. Rocky Johnson, the father of Johnson, was known as "Soulman" and competed in boxing and American regional wrestling. 

In 1974, George Foreman used him as a sparring partner as he trained for their fight in "the Rumble in the Jungle" against Muhammad Ali. The younger Johnson, though, originally favored the mat over the gridiron. He was a star athlete in high school and participated on the University of Miami football team that won the NCAA Championship in 1991 (Bachelor of General Studies, 1995). 

He went to wrestling when injuries ended his career in the Canadian Football League. Johnson made his World Wrestling Federation (WWF) debut in 1996 as Rocky Maivia, a moniker that paid homage to both his father and his grandfather. Johnson was endowed with a unique combination of size, speed, and agility as well as great microphone abilities. After only a few months of exposure and extensive promotion as a "face" (crowd favourite), Johnson won the WWF Intercontinental championship.

The forceful push, however, resulted in popular reaction, and in succeeding storylines, The Rock, an unrepentant "heel" (evil character), took the place of Rocky Maivia. As a result of the turn, popularity increased. The Rock won the first of many world championship reigns in 1998 after engaging in a string of high-profile feuds with the WWF's best talents.

The Mummy Returns (2001) marked the beginning of a new phase in Johnson's career because of the way his abrasive charisma from his in-ring rants translated to the big screen. Johnson was undoubtedly the most successful professional wrestler Hollywood ever courted, while neither being the first nor the last to do so. The Scorpion King (2002) and The Rundown (2003) came after "The Mummy Returns" for him. He retired from fighting in 2004 to focus solely on acting.

Johnson went on to star in a number of testosterone-fueled action films, including G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Pain & Gain (2013), and four Fast and the Furious films: Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), and The Fate of the Furious (2017). The Game Plan (2007), Tooth Fairy (2010), and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) are three other family comedies in which he also made an appearance. Johnson was then chosen to play the titular Hercules in the 2014 film adaptation of the Greek story. 

In the 2015 action movie San Andreas, he portrayed a firefighter coping with a devastating earthquake. In the buddy comedy Central Intelligence, which was released in 2016, he was paired with comedian Kevin Hart.

Later, Johnson voiced a demigod in the Disney animated film Moana (2016). He starred in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which was adapted from a children's novel by Chris Van Allsburg, and Baywatch, a comedy based on the lifeguards TV series. In the action film Skyscraper the next year, Johnson played a father who risks everything to save his family from a burning skyscraper. Then he appeared in the spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

from the long-running series, and Jumanji: The Next Level, a follow-up to the 2017 movie (both 2019). He co-starred in the action comedy Jungle Cruise in 2021 alongside Emily Blunt, which was modelled on a ride in a theme park. Johnson also made an appearance in Red Notice that year as an FBI profiler pursuing art thieves. A DC Comics superhero movie called Black Adam was among his 2022 accomplishments.

Johnson made several television appearances. He served as the host of the reality television programme The Hero in 2013, and from 2015 to 2019 he played in the HBO comedy series Ballers, which follows a former football player who works as a financial advisor to other athletes. 

The Titan Games (2019-), a reality TV series Johnson created and hosted, featuring a range of athletic activities. A comedy series based on his life, Young Rock (2021-), included him afterwards.

Johnson made his return to the ring in 2011 after a seven-year absence, setting off a feud with WWE superstar John Cena that resulted in the main event fight at WrestleMania XXVIII in April 2012. His presence helped the event achieve unprecedented success: WrestleMania XXVIII was WWE's highest-grossing pay-per-view broadcast, with more than 1.3 million pay-per-view orders and $67 million in global sales.

Johnson won his ninth professional wrestling championship in January 2013, but he gave it up less than three months later after falling to Cena in yet another well covered match.

Wife and Children

Early in the 1990s, Johnson met his first wife, Dany Garcia, at the University of Miami. They were both there as students. Garcia is a producer, businesswoman, and IFBB professional bodybuilder. On May 3, 1997, the couple exchanged vows, and they later amicably split apart. In May 2008, their divorce was legally finalised.

In 2007, Johnson started dating Lauren Hashian, the child of Boston percussionist Sib Hashian. In 2006, they first connected while he was filming "The Game Plan." The union took place on August 18, 2019, in Hawaii.

Three of Dwayne Johnson's kids exist. Simone Garcia Johnson, also known as Ava Raine, is one of them. She presently has a WWE contract and is a professional wrestler from the United States. On the NXT roster, Simone goes by the ring name Ava Raine. Jasmine (born December 17, 2015) and Tiana (born April 17, 2018) are his additional daughters.

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