Biographic - Sunday February 24, 2019 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Dwayne Johnson was born in Hayward California, on May 2, 1972, and spent time on New Zealand and Hawaii as a child before his family settled in Pennsylvania, An outstanding football prospect, he attended the University of Miami on a full football scholarship and was a member of the Miami Hurricane National Championship team in 1991 before a brief stint with the Calgary Stampede in the Canadian football league. Both Dwayne's father and grandfather were professional wrestlers as are a number of other relatives = his uncles wrestled as The wild Samoans tag team and by the mid-1990s, he had followed in the family tradition, Wrestling as Flex Kavana He won two USWA world tag team titles in tandem with Bart Sawyer. Taking the name Rocky Maivia, He made his WWF Debut in 1996. His name was soon truncated to The Rock and he quickly became one of wrestlers' biggest superstars! By the time he starred in such family-friendly fare as "Race to witch mountain" and "Tooth Fairy" He had dropped any reference to his ring name and was simply billed as Dwayne Johnson. He made his debut as agent Luke Hobbs in 20111s "fast Five" Installment of the blockbuster "Fast and Furious" franchise and has reprised the role in all the subsequent sequels the following year, he starred in "Journey 2: The mysterious island." "GI JOE RETALIATION" and "PAIN AND GAIN" were just two of the five movies in which he starred in 2013, the same year he hosted and produced the reality TV series "The Hero" He starred in "Hercules" and then in 2015, the same year he launched hos "Ballers" series on HBO< he starred in "san Andreas" Subsequent hits include "Central Intelligence" The animated "MOANA" BAY WATCH" JUMANJI: Welcome to the jungle" "Rampage and "Skyscraper" BY 2016, he was the worlds, highest-paid actor! 2019 sees him host the new obstacle - course TV show "Th titan Games" and play himself comedy-drama "Fighting with my family" DWAYNE JOHNSON

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