Martin Lawrence's Lifestyle & Net Worth 2022 - YouTube

martin lawrence is an american comedian actor  screenwriter film director and producer he came  

to fame during the 1990s establishing  a hollywood career as a leading actor  

he got his start playing maurice warfield and  what's happening now from 1987 to 1988. he was a  

leading actor in the fox television sitcom martin  the bad boys franchise boomerang house party  

wild hogs blue streak nothing to lose life big  mama's house and a thin line between love and hate  

martin lawrence has an estimated net worth of  110 million u.s dollars about martin lawrence's  

early life martin fitzgerald lawrence was born on  april 16 1965 in frankfurt west germany his father  

john lawrence was serving in the u.s military at  the time of his birth his mother clara lawrence  

was born in 1930 and died in 2008. martin lawrence  is the fourth of six siblings martin fitzgerald  

lawrence's first and middle names were named after  civil rights leader martin luther king jr and u.s  

president john f kennedy respectively when he  was seven years old his father left the military  

and the family moved from west germany back to the  united states settling in landover maryland in the  

washington dc area following his parents divorce  when he was eight years old martin lawrence rarely  

saw his father who was a police officer his  mother clara lawrence worked several jobs  

including as a sales representative and cashier  at various department stores to support her family  

during his teen years martin lawrence excelled  at boxing while living in maryland he attended  

eleanor roosevelt high school and friendly high  school and he lived in apple grove becoming a  

mid-atlantic golden gloves boxing contender martin  lawrence is five foot seven inches tall or 1.71  

meters tall about martin lawrence's personal  life martin lawrence was engaged to actress  

lark voorhees in 1993 in 1995 he married miss  virginia usa patricia southall martin lawrence and  

patricia southall have a daughter jasmine paige  lawrence who was born in 1996. in 1997 martin  

lawrence began a relationship with shamika gibbs  they married on july 10 2010 at martin lawrence's  

beverly hills home actors eddie murphy and denzel  washington were among the 120 wedding guests  

martin lawrence and shamika gibbs have two  daughters iana faith who was born in 2000  

and amara trinity who was born in 2002 martin  lawrence filed for divorce from shamika gibbs on  

april 25th 2012 citing irreconcilable differences  and asking for joint legal and physical custody of  

the children in july 1995 while on the set  filming a thin line between love and hate  

lawrence lashed out in a violent rage and was  then hospitalized at cedars-sinai medical center  

on may 8 1996 he became increasingly erratic and  was arrested after he brandished a pistol in the  

middle of an intersection on ventura boulevard in  los angeles screaming they're trying to kill me he  

was again hospitalized with his public relations  agent citing exhaustion and dehydration as the  

reasons for this episode on july 29th 1996 he  tried to take a nine millimeter gun onto a plane  

and received two years probation and a fine  in january 1997 lawrence's martin co-star  

tisha campbell martin found a lawsuit against  him alleging sexual harassment and abuse  

both on and off the set by april 1997 tasha  campbell had settled the lawsuit and returned  

to appear in the last two episodes of the series  in march 1997 martin lawrence was arrested after  

punching a man in a hollywood nightclub during  1999 martin lawrence slipped into a three-day coma  

after collapsing from heat exhaustion while  jogging in a hundred degree fahrenheit heat  

in preparation for big mama's house while  wearing heavy clothing and a plastic suit  

he recovered in the hospital after entering  a near fatal coma due to a body temperature  

of 107 degrees his breathing was assisted by a  ventilator about martin lawrence's career in his  

early days martin lawrence did comedy shows in the  washington dc area and supported himself through  

odd jobs comedian rich schneider saw his act and  suggested martin lawrence make connections in  

new york martin lawrence ended up moving to new  york city and found his way to the comedy club  

the improv shortly after appearing at the  improv martin lawrence won a performance  

spot on star search he did well on the show and  made it to the final round but he didn't win  

however executives at columbia pictures television  saw martin lawrence's performance and offered him  

the role of maurice warfield in what's happening  now this was his first acting job his breakthrough  

role was as see and do the right thing other roles  followed in films such as the house party series  

talking dirty after dark and the eddie murphy  vehicle boomerang during this period entertainment  

mogul russell simmons selected martin lawrence to  host the groundbreaking series deaf comedy jam on  

hbo during his stint with deaf comedy jam martin  lawrence appeared in his own hit series martin  

which aired on fox the show ran from 1992 to  1997 and was an enormous success martin was  

the flagship of fox's thursday night lineup which  drew millions of viewers away from nbc's must-see  

tv lineup on february 19 1994 he hosted saturday  night live the series martin's ratings continued  

to skyrocket so much that fox became more of a  contender against nbc and came closer to being  

considered among the top television networks in  1995 martin lawrence acted alongside will smith  

and bad boys with wide success after the series  martin ended its run in 1997 martin lawrence  

found work in comedy films he often starred as the  second lead opposite actors including eddie murphy  

danny devito and tim robbins many of his  films were blockbusters at the box office  

including nothing to lose life blue streak and  big mama's house he also starred in critical and  

box office failures including black knight and  national security regardless his salary steadily  

increased to over 10 million dollars per film role  he continues to work in film with such films as  

big mama's house 2 which opened at number one at  north american box offices and grossed almost 29  

million dollars its first weekend and wild hogs  in 2007 in which he played a board suburbanite  

seeking adventure on the open road in a biker  comedy alongside tim allen john travolta and  

william h macy in 2006 martin lawrence appeared on  inside the actor's studio during which he briefly  

brought back to life some of the characters he had  portrayed on the sitcom martin he also appeared  

in open season as boog one of the main characters  of the film the movie also starred ashton kutcher  

deborah messing and gary sinise in 2008 martin  lawrence starred in walt disney pictures college  

road trip co-starring with raven simone it was his  first g-rated film but not his first appearance  

in a children's film he supplied a voice for open  season in 2006 opposite ashton kutcher in 2011  

martin lawrence reprised his role as fbi agent  malcolm turner and big mama's like father-like  

son the third film in the big mama series in 2020  martin lawrence reprised his role as detective  

marcus burnett in the third installments  of the bad boys franchise bad boys for life  

again alongside will smith the film was considered  a financial success grossing 113 million dollars  

in its first four days of release about martin  lawrence's real estate for several years martin  

lawrence owned a large mansion in the beverly park  community in beverly hills where he wedded shamika  

gibbs however following their divorce the property  was available for lease at two hundred thousand  

dollars per month in june 2012. in 2013 the  property was up for sale for 26.5 million dollars  

and eventually he sold it for 17.2 million dollars  to bruce mikowski martin lawrence then bought  

a home in encino los angeles for 6.63 million  dollars he also owns a farm near personalville  

virginia about martin lawrence's car collections  martin lawrence owns or has owned a ferrari 458  

italia a 1967 plymouth barracuda and an aston  martin v12 zagato thanks so much for watching  

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