Martin Lawrence Biography
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Salary
Bad Boys II (2003): $20,000,000
National Security (2003): $20,000,000
Black Knight (2001): $16,500,000
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001): $13,000,000
Nothing to Lose (1997): $6,000,000
Trivia

Lapses into a coma after collapsing from heat exhaustion while jogging. Recovered in hospital. [25 August 1999]

Ordered to perform community service after incident in March. [17 September 1997]

Arrested outside a Hollywood nightclub after police called by a man claiming Lawrence had punched him. [28 March 1997]

Arrested at Burbank Airport for carrying a loaded gun in his suitcase. [August 1996]

His ex-wife, Patricia, was Miss Virginia.

Graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Maryland.

Was a Mid-Atlantic Golden Gloves boxing contender in his teens.

Brother of
Robert Lawrence

Claims he got his start as a comedian by cheering up his mother, who was forced to support her six children by cashiering in various department stores.

His teachers used to give him the last few minutes of class to make his classmates laugh.

Brother of
Rae Proctor

Was once engaged to
Saved by the Bell actress
Lark Voorhies.

Is from the same Metro Area as
Sandra Bullock,
Dave Chappelle,
Mya,
Alan Heitz,
Regina Hall and
Dwayne Winstead.

His mother was in her mid-40s when she gave birth to him.

Agents discovered him on
Star Search.

Lived in Maryland.

His ex-wife, Patricia Southall, is married to retired pro football star Emmitt Smith.

Is the second youngest of six children.

As told to the host of Bravo's show The Actor's Studio Martin told him his mother got his first name from slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his middle name from president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He attended and graduated from Elenor Roosevelt High School
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