Dwayne Johnson Biography Athlete, Actor, Film Actor

Biography of Dwayne Johnson
Athlete, Actor, Movie Actor (1972-)Dwayne Johnson came to fame as "The Rock", a popular fighting personality. He then became a box office star, appearing in films like 'The Scorpion King', 'Hercules' and the franchise 'The Fast and the Furious'.
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was born into a family of professional wrestlers in 1972. An injury ended his career in college football, so he entered the ring with the Word Wrestling Federation. As "The Rock," he fought wrestler Steve Austin and won the WWF / WWE heavyweight title several times. Johnson then turned his fighter reputation into a film career, appearing in projects like The Mummy Returns of 2001 and Tooth Fairy of 2010. His rejected projects include the HBO Ballers series (2015) and a series of features from 2017, The Fate of the Furious, Baywatch and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Wife and daughters
Johnson has a daughter, Simone Alexandra, from her first marriage. He and his high school sweetheart, Dany Garcia, got married in 1997 and separated a decade later, although she is still his manager.

Johnson has entered into a long-term relationship with musician Lauren Hashian, with whom he had his daughter Jasmine Lia in December 2015. In April 2018, the couple received their second daughter, Tiana Gia.


Movies and TV
'Scorpion King'
Outside the wrestling ring, The Rock launched a successful career as an actor, dropping the stage name and simply going for Dwayne Johnson. First he made a big splash like the Scorpion King, a supernatural bad guy, in The Mummy Returns of 2001. Johnson returned to this role the following year for The Scorpion King. Trying in comedy, he appeared in Be Cool with John Travolta and Uma Thurman in 2005 and The Game Plan in 2007.

'Driver', 'Fast & Furious' Franchise
Johnson's acting career continued to thrive through his appearances in films such as Driver (2010) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013). In 2014, he starred as the titular strongman in Hercules. Johnson also returned to the fight from time to time, including an appearance in 2014 with Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 30.

'Ballers' by HBO
In 2015, Johnson dominated the big screen with two great action movies. He appeared in Furious Seven and starred in San Andreas. Johnson also debuted his first drama series that same year, playing Spencer Strasmore, a retired professional footballer and financial planner, at Ballers.


'Central Intelligence', 'Moana'
In 2016, after partnering with Kevin Hart for the action comedy Central Intelligence, Johnson expressed the demigod Maui for the animated success of Disney Moana. He was a busy man in 2017, assuming starring roles in The Fate of the Furious, a screen adaptation of Baywatch and Jumanji's series of lifeguards of the 90s: Welcome to the Jungle.

'Jumanji', 'Skyscraper'
The good vibes continued in 2018, with Jumanji accumulating ticket sales on the way to becoming the actor's highest grossing film to date. He also managed to excel during the advertising campaign that accompanied the Super Bowl in February, and debuted with a trailer of the film, Skyscraper, in which he participates in tricks that defy death with a prosthetic leg. That same day, Johnson announced that he would host a 10-episode non-scripted contest program, The Titan Games, to "create a platform that would give ordinary people the opportunity to change their lives and do something extraordinary."

The next step for the action star was Rampage, based on a popular arcade game from the 1980s in which giant animals destroy a city. Later that year, the talks about a split of Fast & Furious came true, and Vanessa Kirby of The Crown joined the duo of Johnson and Jason Statham in Hobbs and Shaw.

Off-screen
In 2017, the rumor began to build on Johnson's rumored plan to run for president in 2020. After being shy for much of the year, the actor-turned-wrestler finally confirmed the rumors in December, and told Ellen DeGeneres : "I'm seriously considering it.

Johnson also spoke about some of his problems in early life, including the eviction of his family from his home in Hawaii when he was only 14 years old. He told the UK publication The Express that his mother tried to commit suicide by walking into traffic the following year. An incident that left him struggling with depression.

Early life and career
Professional wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. The grandson of professional wrestler Peter "High Chief" Fanene Maivia and son of wrestler Rocky Johnson, young Johnson grew up watching his father perform in the ring. Without plan