Maxine Sneed is the former editor of the magazine, Black Radio Magazine. She is popular as the ex-wife of the actor and comedian Thomas B. Kin Chong otherwise known as Tommy Chong.

Personal Life

Maxine Sneed is an American citizen of multi-racial ethnicity, Cherokee, and Black Canadian descent. Her place of birth is Canada. Maxine and Tommy Chong got married in 1960 in Canada. Tommy is of Scotish –Irish and Chinese origin. The marriage produced two daughters, the eldest being Rae Dawn Chong born on 28 February 1961 and the youngest, Robbi Lynn Chong born on 28 May 1965.The couple divorced in the year 1970, the reason is not known.

Tommy went on to marry Shelby Fiddis in 1975, they have two sons named Paris, Gilbran and a daughter Precious. They also adopted a boy, Marcus Wyatt. Maxine’s daughter Rae Dawn Chong is a popular actress who mainly stars in Canadian movies. Her birthplace is Alberta Canada. She began her career by doing supporting roles on the small screen.

For her role in the movie titled ‘Quest for Fire’ that released in 1981 she bagged the Genie Award in 1983 in the category of ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role’. Few of Sneed’sother works include ‘The Colour Purple’, ‘Beat Street’, Commando and ‘Choose Me’. In Mick Jagger’s music video titled ‘Just Another Night,’ she appears as his love interest.

When Chong decided to make her debut as a director in a horror short film called ‘Cursed Part 3’, she cast a boy who was just nineteen years old who waited tables at a restaurant in Maui, the boy grew up to become the celebrated actor Chris Pratt.

Chong has married thrice with all the relationships ending in divorce. Maxine’s family is always under the paparazzi’s radar as the father and two daughters are members of the film industry. Her ex-husband Jimmy, is a known musician, actor, and writer. He is a strong activist for the legalization of cannabis and even released comedy albums with marijuana theme.

He voiced the character Yax in the 2016 animated movie ’Zootopia’. Some of his films are ‘The Fluffy Movie’, ‘Evil Bong’, ‘Paul Shore is Dead’ and ‘National Lampoon’s Senior Trip’. The youngest daughter, Robbi Chong is also a Canadian model turned actress. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sneed’s movies include ‘Shelter’, ‘Ellie Park’, ‘Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers’, ‘Far Out Man’ and ‘The Evil Inside Me’. She made several appearances in the small screen series such as ‘The Outer Limits’, ‘Poltergeist: The Legacy’, ‘You Bet Your Life, ‘ The Cosby Show’ and ‘Murder One’.

Career

Maxine Sneed previously worked as the editor of The Black Radio Magazine. She is a passionate writer who aims at providing her readers with good quality content. There has been news that she is working for a Corporate house as an editor. Since she leads a private life and keeps away from media after the divorce with Tommy not much information about her personal and professional life is known.