The Most Highest Paid Actor in Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson 



born May  1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor,
producer, and professional wrestler who holds both American and Canadian citizenship.
Currently signed to WWE on a part-time contract, Johnson .was a college
football player for the University of Miami, where he won a national championship
on the 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team He later played for the Calgary Stampeders
in the Canadian Football League, and was cut two months into the 1995 season. This led
him to become a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father,
 Rocky Johnson (from whom he also
inherited his Canadian citizenship

 

Early life

Johnson was born in Hayward, California, the son of Ata Johnson (née Maivia) and professional wrestler
Rocky Johnson. His maternal grandfather, "High Chief" Peter Maivia, was also a wrestler. His maternal grandmother
, Lia Maivia, was one of wrestling's few female promoters, taking over Polynesian Pacific Pro Wrestling after
 her husband's death in 1982, until 1988.[16][17] His cousin, Savelina Fanene, is also a wrestler currently
working for WWE.[18] His father is a Black Nova Scotian, and his mother is of Samoan heritage.[19][20] His
 father was part of the first black tag team to win the World Tag Team Championship in the World Wrestling
 Federation (WWF).[21] Through his mother, he is considered a non-blood relative of the Anoa'i wrestling
family.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][excessive citations]
Johnson briefly lived in the suburb of Grey Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand,
 with his mother's family.[33] He attended Richmond Road Primary School,
before returning to the United States with his parents.[33] Johnson spent 10th grade at President
William McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. As he entered 11th grade, his father's job required his
 relocation to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He began playing football at Freedom High School in the East Penn
Conference.[20] He was also a member of the school's track and field and wrestling teams

Professional wrestling career
Training 1995–1996
Like his father and grandfather, several of Johnson's other (non-blood) relatives are or were professional
wrestlers, including his uncles, Afa and Sika Anoaʻi (The Wild Samoans) and his cousins, Rodney (Yokozuna),
 Solofa (Rikishi), Matt (Rosey) and Eddie (Umaga).[33] When Johnson declared his intent to become a wrestler,
 his father initially resisted, but then agreed to train him himself, warning that he would not go
 easy on him.[20] Veteran wrestler Pat Patterson got Johnson several tryout matches with the World Wrestling
 Federation (WWF) in 1996. Under his real name, he defeated The Brooklyn Brawler at a house show,[39]
and lost the other matches to Chris Candido and Owen Hart.[33] After wrestling at Jerry Lawler's UnitedStates Wrestling Association, as "Flex Kavana",[5] and winning the USWA World Tag Team Championship twicewith Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996

Acting career

In a the May 2004 issue, Vibe magazine stated "At six-foot-four, 245 pounds, Dwayne "the Rock"
Johnson, 31, may be the biggest star to hit the big screen since Arnold Schwarzenegger." Johnson
 also continued to act on television, including in an episode of the Disney Channel show, Cory in
the House, entitled "Never the Dwayne Shall Meet".[236] While Johnson was away from WWE, the company
 continued to sell "The Rock" merchandise, and he continued to be featured prominently in the opening
montages of their television shows
Johnson broke into the mainstream with roles in the blockbuster action films The Mummy Returns
 in 2001 and The Scorpion King in 2002, the action comedy The Rundown in 2003 and the remake of
 Walking Tall in 2004. He played a supporting role in 2005's Be Cool and was the primary antagonist
 in Doom in 2006. Roles in the Gridiron Gang and Reno 911!: Miami soon followed. Johnson played against
 type with The Rundown co-star Sean William Scott in 2007's Southland Tales. Johnson played the cocky
 famous football player, Joe Kingman, in The Game Plan, and Agent 23 in Get Smart. Johnson presented
 the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 80th Academy Awards on February 2008.

He was nominated for the Favorite Movie Actor award at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for
 his role in The Game Plan, but lost out to Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's  

 

Personal life

 Johnson married Dany Garcia on May 3, 1997.[279] Their daughter,
 Simone Alexandra, was born August 14, 2001.[279] On June 1, 2007,
they announced they were splitting up amicably and intended to remain friends.
[279] Soon after the divorce, Johnson began dating Lauren Hashian, the daughter
 of Boston drummer Sib Hashian. They first met in 2006 while Johnson was filming
The Game Plan, prompting rumors he left his marriage for Hashian.[280] Their first
 child, a daughter named Jasmine, was born in December 2015.[280][281][282]

Johnson co-wrote an autobiography with Joe Layden, titled The Rock Says.... It was
 published in 2000, debuting at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list and
 remaining on the list for several weeks.[9]


Johnson is a good friend of actor and former Governor of California,
 Arnold Schwarzenegger.[283] He has two nephews who play football: Kaluka
 Maiava played at USC and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2009, and his
 brother, Kai Maiava, currently plays at UCLA.

Johnson attended the 2000 Democratic National Convention