Dwayne Johnson Biography : Dwayne Douglas Johnson, nick name is the Rock was born in Hayward, California, on May 2, 1972. He is the son of professional wrestler Rocky Johnson and Ata Johnson. His mother is Samoan, while his father is black and from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (her own father was Peter Fanene Maivia, also a professional wrestler). Dwayne spent a lot of his childhood travelling with his parents and seeing his father compete in the ring. Dwayne started playing football in high school, and the University of Miami quickly offered him a full athletic scholarship after noticing his prodigious talent. Dwayne sustained a back injury in 1995.Dwayne's back problem prevented him from playing in the NFL. The Canadian League then offered him a three-year contract, but he quit after one year to pursue a career in wrestling.
He made his professional wrestling debut in the USWA as Flex Kavanah, when he and Brett Sawyer won the tag team title. Dwayne became Rocky Maivia when he joined the WWE in 1996. There, he joined a group called "The Nation of Domination" and changed his character to a heel. Rocky soon assumed control of the "Nation" and started adopting The Rock's persona. After the "Nation" broke up, The Rock joined the "Corporation," another prestigious organisation of wrestlers, and they launched a famous rivalry with Steve Austin. The Rock was soonexpelled from the "Corporation" He made a U-turn and earned the moniker "The People's Champion." The Rock took a break from WWE in 2000 to film his part in The Mummy Returns (2001). He resurfaced in 2001 during the WCW/ECW invasion, and during The Scorpion King (2002), a precursor to The Mummy Returns, he joined a group of WWE wrestlers (2001).
With his ex-wife Dany Garcia, Dwayne has a daughter named Simone Alexandra Johnson, born in 2001, and with his wife, singer and composer Lauren Hashian, he has daughters named Jasmine, born in 2018.
The father of Johnson was a Black Nova Scotian with some Irish blood.
He has a Samoan mother. In 1983, his father and tag team partner Tony Atlas won the first ever black WWE tag team championship. His mother is Peter Maivia's adoptive child, a former professional wrestler. Johnson's maternal grandmother, was the first woman to promote pro wrestling.
after her husband's passing in 1982, she took control of Polynesian Pacific Pro Wrestling and ran it until 1988. Johnson has a non-blood connection to the Anoa'i wrestling family through his paternal grandpa Maivia. Johnson honoured his father and grandfather with WWE Hall of Fame inductions in 2008.
Prior to relocating to Hamden, Connecticut, Johnson attended Montclaire Elementary School in Charlotte, North Carolina, followed by Shepherd Glen Elementary School and Hamden Middle School.
Johnson graduated from Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township in the Lehigh Valley in 1990 after attending President William McKinley High School in Honolulu, Glencliff High School and McGavock High School in Nashville, and President William McKinley High School in Honolulu.
Johnson originally struggled at Freedom High School in the Lehigh Valley and was dragged into a conflictual and criminal culture. He was arrested numerous times before the age of 17 for fighting, theft, and check fraud. He was also suspended for two weeks for fighting.He was afterwards referred to as "a troublesome youngster with a history of run-ins with police" by the local press. However, Johnson's athletic ability caught the attention of Freedom High School football coach Jody Cwik, who invited him to join the squad where he played defensive lineman. The encounter signalled the start of Johnson's personal metamorphosis. "My way of thinking started to shift. I then began to consider my objectives and what I wanted to do, "He later spoke about his time playing football in high school.
Johnson was a football player at Freedom High School, but he alsoa student-athlete on the school's wrestling and track teams. The school's track and field, wrestling, and football teams all competed in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference (EPC), one of the top high school athletic conferences in the country. Johnson soon found himself competing against some of the top high school wrestlers in the country because the EPC's wrestling programmes have been named among the best in the country by WIN magazine for "almost three decades."
Johnson had only played high school football for two years by the time he was in his senior year at Freedom High School, but the fact that he had performed admirably on a squad in a competitive high school athletic division that was nationally recognised forNCAA Division I university teams were interested in the numerous professional and Olympic-level athletes that these programmes were generating, including future NFL stars Andre Reed, Saquon Barkley, Kyzir White, and others. Johnson was rated as one of the top ten high school defensive tackles in the country by college football recruiters. He made the decision to accept a full athletic scholarship offer from the University of Miami, which at the time had one of the greatest football programmes in the country.
Parents : His father name is Rocky Johnson also a former professional wrestler he was born on Wayde Douglas Bowles in 1944. His Mather name is Ata Johnson Fitisemanu Maivia in 1948. In 1983 his father and Tony Atlas was a tag team partner and they were 1st tag team champion in history of WWE.
Wife/Spouse : His first wife name is Dany Garcia married in 1997 and divorced in 2007.
His second wife name is Lauren Hashian her mother name is Boston Drummer Sib married in 2019.
Children : They have a 3 daughters
First is Simone Alexander Johnson from ( Dany Garcia) and second and third is Jasmine Johnson and Tiana from ( Lauren Hashian).
Personal life: Johnson first met Dany Garcia in the 1990s while both were football players and college students at the University of Miami. The ceremony took place on May 3, 1997. She is a producer, a businesswoman, and an IFBB professional bodybuilder. Simone was born to them on August 14, 2001.
Johnson and Garcia announced their amicable separation on June 1st, 2007, and their divorce was formalised in May 2008.
After that, Johnson started dating Lauren Hashian, the child of Boston percussionist Sib Hashian. When Johnson was filming The Game Plan in 2006, they got to know one another. On August 18, 2019, they got hitched in Hawaii. Jasmine, who was born on December 17, 2015, and Tiana are the couple's two daughters (born April 17, 2018).
Hashian and Johnson live
and own a farm in Virginia as well as a 2nd home in Southwest Ranches, Florida. They also reside in Los Angeles.
Johnson received the honorific title of Seiuli which translates as "the son of Malietoa from Malietoa Tanumafili II while his visit to Samoa on August 9, 2004, in appreciation for his service to the Samoan people and because he is a direct descendant of Samoan chiefs.
He obtained Canadian citizenship in 2009 as a result of his father's birth and residence in that country.
On his left side, he got a tattoo in 2003 a partial Samoan.
In 2017, he had a skull bull's tattoo of a half- sleeve placed over the little "Brahma bull" tattoo on his right arm.
WWE confirmed in February 2020 that Johnson's daughter Simone has started training.She became the first 4th generation WWE wrestler through the WWE Performance Center. Johnson revealed on May 16 that she had secured a contract with WWE and that her wrestling ring name will be Ava Raine starting in May 2022.
Wrestling career :
Johnson started his wrestling career in 1996, after Calgary cut him. Johnson participated in multiple WWF tryout matches in 1996 thanks to seasoned wrestler Pat Patterson. Johnson, who initially competed in fights using his own name. and defeated Brooklyn Brawler at a house event on March 10 but fell short against Chris Candido and Owen Hart. After participate as Flex Kavana for Jerry Lawler's United States Wrestling Association and won the tag team championship twice with teammate Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996, Johnson secured a deal with the World Wrestling Federation. In addition to Achim Albrecht and Mark Henry, he also received extra instruction from Tom Prichard.
World Wrestling Federation/ Entertainment
(WWF/ WWE):
Debut in 1996 to 1997.
Then , Domination in the nation in 1997 to 1998.
In 1998 to 2000 Jhonson entered into a tournament for WWF championship it's a very Deadly games.
The rock breaking the world record of WWF championship in 2000 to 2002. He defeated Triple H and won his 4 th WWF championship.
In 2007 to 2009 Non- Wrestling Appearance
The rock arrived after 3 years in WWE show in 2007.
In 2009, he arrived in World Xtreme Wrestling ( WXW) show.
On 4 February , 2011 the rock was announced to return in Wrestle Mania to feud with John Cena.
Acting career/ Films:In Beyond the Mat (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), Johnson played his first acting roles. In the sequel The Scorpion King, he played his first lead role (2002). Since then, he has appeared in a large number of other popular movies, such as The Rundown (2003), Welcome To The Jungle (2003), Walking Tall (2004), Southland Tales (2007), The Game Plan (2007), Get Smart (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Tooth Fairy (2010), Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Pain & Gain (2013), Hercules (2014), San Andreas (2015), Central Intelligence (2016), (2021). The Fast and the Furious franchise's Luke Hobbs has been Johnson's most lucrative on-screen role. He debuted in Fast Five as the character.(2011) and assisted in making the movie series one of the most successful film franchises in history. Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), and The Fate of the Furious were the sequels in which he appeared (2017). Due to the popularity of the character, Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off of The Fast and the Furious, was made (2019). Johnson is a well-known member of the Jumanji franchise, which includes the popular movies Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019).
Beginning in 2015, Johnson also starred in the HBO series Ballers. The five-season programme was HBO's most watched comedy in the previous six years. Dwayne Johnson most recently made an appearance in the hit videogame Fortnite Battle Royale acted as The Foundation's voice actor, and on October 20, 2022, Black Adam.
Net worth : The Rock, also known as Dwayne Johnson, is an American actor, businessman, and former professional wrestler with a net worth of $800 million.
Award and honours:
Year:1991
Award: NCAAF National Championship
Category: Sports
Year:2001
Award: Teen Choice Award
category: Choice Movie Villain
Year: 2012
Award : Cinemacon
Category: Action Star of the year
Year: 2013
Award: Kids Choice Awards
Category: Favourite Male Buttkicker
Year: 2015
Award: 1.Muscle & Fitness 2. Mr Olympia
Category: 1.Man of the Century 2. Icon Award
Year: 2016
Award: 1.People Magazine 2.Shortly Awards
Category: 1.Sexiest Man Alive 2.Best Actor
Year:2017
Award: Kids Choice Awards
Category:BFF's
Year: 2018
Award: Teen Choice Awards
Category: Choice Comedy Movie Actor
Year:2019
Award:1 Honored 2 MTV Movie and TV Awards
Category: 1.United States 1st Armored Division 2.MTV Generation Award