Michael Jai White was born on 10th November, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York who later on shifted to Bridgeport, Connecticut as a teenager. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the African-American ethnicity. His birth sign is Scorpio. He is fifty years old as of now but still hasn’t lost his boldness and charm. A tall height of 1.85m adds to his personality. He graduated from Central High School back in 1985.

Michael Jai is an established martial artists and he holds black belts in various styles including Taekwondo, Shotokan, Goju Ryu, Wushu, Kobudo, Tang Soo Do and Kyokushin. Quite surprisingly, Michael began his martial arts training at a mere age of seven. He started with Jujitsu and gradually moved on to other forms of martial arts. Besides being a famous actor and an intrepid martial artist, Michael also used to be a teacher.

Michael Jai White was married to Courtney Chatham between the years 2005-2011 and was blessed with a beautiful daughter and two sons. In the month of February in 2014, Michael publicly announced that he was engaged to famous actress Gillian Iliana Waters whom he married in July the following year in a lavish ceremony held in Thailand. Michael Jai is an avid user of social media. His instagram handle has 637k followers wherein he posts a lot of pictures promoting his work. He has got 987k followers on twitter as well.

Career

Michael Jai White got his first lead role and big break in the 1995 film ‘Tyson’ in which he portrayed Mike Tyson, the famous heavyweight boxer. He then moved on to do another film in 1997 named ‘Spawn’ which suited his personality perfectly. By enacting in this movie, he became the first ever African American person to depict a comic book superhero in a motion picture. He got nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for the Best Male Newcomer for the movie ‘Spawn’.

White has done a variety of films in his acting career. He has starred opposite a martial artist Steven Seagal in 2001 in the movie ‘Exit Wounds’. Two years later he starred in a music video ‘I know What You Want’.

In addition to his movies, White started doing voice work for ‘Justice League’ and ‘Static Shock’. He showcased his martial arts skills in ‘Undisputed II: Last Man Standing’. He made an appearance in ‘Silver Hawk’ which was released in 2004. Another film of Michael ‘Why Did I Get Married?’ released on top of the box office in 2007.

It is clearly evident that Michael doesn’t only excel at acting. His talents include martial arts and his charming voice as well. He has done about fifty movies and spoken in several movies till date which has increased his net worth to a whopping $3.5 million.