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Date of Birth

31 August 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Birth Name

Christopher Tucker

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m)

Trade Mark

Motormouth talker

Trivia

Stand-up comic.

Well known for parodying the Cuban accent of the Tony Montana character from Scarface (1983).

His breakout role was that of "Smokey" in Friday (1995).

In 1999, he signed a two-picture $45 million deal with New Line Cinema - including $20 million to co-star in Rush Hour 2 (2001) - other deal unknown.

Graduate of Columbia High School.

He has a son named Destin Christopher Tucker.

On April 17, 2005, he was arrested in Georgia for reckless driving and fleeing to elude after he did not pull over right away. Sheriffs claimed he was driving 109 mph in his 2005 Bentley.

On May 25, 2005 he testified in defense of Michael Jackson during Jackson's trial on charges of child molestation.

Appears occasionally at charity concerts and functions and is dedicated to helping bring attention to African poverty and hunger issues in America.

Has Native American ancestry.

Images of him were edited out from stock footage, in the "Next Friday" (2000) DVD bonus material.

Personal Quotes

"When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through."

"I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life."

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

Traveling - even to Los Angeles - it was big... When I went out there with my country accent, people would laugh at the way I talk. They'd be like, "Say 'orange' again." I'd be like, "'Orange.' What?" Now, going around the world, it's such a great experience, I feel so blessed, because I get to see the world. I get a broad perspective of the world, and we've got so much here in America - and in Africa, there are places with no clean water, places with no schools, no hospitals. That really took me by surprise - well, educated me a lot. I would say in the last six years I've been doing a lot of educating myself about what's been going on in the world... Yeah, I just enjoy traveling, because that's how I educate myself, and there's nothing better than traveling to a place [to learn] about it.

Salary

Rush Hour 3 (2007)	$25,000,000 + 20% back end gross
Rush Hour 2 (2001)	$20,000,000
Rush Hour (1998)	$3,000,000
Money Talks (1997)	$2,000,000

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