Chris Tucker

Chris Tucker was born on Aug 31, 1971 in USA. Chris Tucker's big-screen debut came with The Meteor Man directed by Robert Townsend in 1993, strarring MC in Mall (uncredited). Chris Tucker is known for Air directed by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon stars as Sonny Vaccaro and Jason Bateman as Rob Strasser. Chris Tucker has got 8 awards and 25 nominations so far. The most recent award Chris Tucker achieved is Gold Derby Awards. The upcoming new movie Chris Tucker plays is Air which will be released on Apr 05, 2023.

At one point in time, Chris Tucker was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Louise (Bryant) and Norris Tucker, who owned a janitorial service. After graduating from high school, Tucker made a change to move to Hollywood from Georgia to pursue a career in show business. He found himself a frequent guest on the Def Comedy Jam (1992). Tucker was noted for doing exceptionally "clean", non-vulgar stand-up comedy routines. Tucker states his inspirations for comedy are Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor.Tucker made his film debut in House Party 3 (1994), along side stars such as Bernie Mac, Marques Houston, and Khandi Alexander. In 1995 Tucker appeared in one of his most notable and hilarious films, Friday (1995), alongside Ice Cube. Tucker's character, Smokey, was a drug addict who was an energetic and outlandish person. Films such as Friday (1995) showed Tucker's television-comedy styling was very different from his stand-up. In 1995, Tucker also appeared in in another film, Génération sacrifiée (1995).In 1997 was the busiest year of Tucker's career. He starred in three hit movies all in the same year: Le cinquième élément (1997), Argent comptant (1997), and Jackie Brown (1997).In 1998, Tucker got a role to star along-side Jackie Chan. The movie was Rush Hour (1998) and it grossed more than $200 million worldwide. This resulted in two additional sequels, Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 3 (2007). In 2006, Tucker got a deal on his Rush Hour 3 (2007) contract that paid $25 million, making him the highest-paid actor in Hollywood at that time.In 2001, Tucker also was in a music video with friend, pop legend Michael Jackson, in the music video, "You Rock My World."