Michael Jai White
His appearances in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too have made him most well-known. Michael Jai White has established himself in a number of action movies over the past few decades, in addition to Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse and its spin-off TV series. In 1997’s Spawn, a year before Wesley Snipes’ Blade, he made history by becoming the first black actor to play a prominent comic book superhero in a major motion picture.
White has been practicing jiu-jitsu since he was seven years old. He is an incredibly talented and committed martial artist, holding no less than eight black belts in shotokan, taekwondo, kobudo, goju ryu, tang soo do, wushu, and kyokushin.
Michael Jai White
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