Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is as American comedian, screenwriter, musician, film producer, TV producer and director whose estimated net worth is as amazingly high as $120 million. He is best known for appearances in movies which helped to increase Martin’s net worth: for “Bad Boys II” he was paid $20,000, and the same amount of money Lawrence was given after appearing in the movie entitled “National Security”. Furthermore, Martin Lawrence was paid more than $16 million after he played in “Black Knight”, and this is the reason why today Lawrence is considered to be one of the richest comedians and actors in the United States.
Martin Lawrence Net Worth $120 Million
Martin Fidzgerald Lawrence was born on April 16, 1965, in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. However, his parents were Americans. They divorced when the young Martin was only eight years old and after that Martin saw little of his father. In order to support herself and her son Martin’s mother worked at several jobs at once, while her son attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School. At that young age Martin didn’t think about increasing his net worth as an actor, as actually he was interested in boxing and was seriously thinking about a professional sports career, but couldn’t do it because of a black eye on him.
Martin Lawrence made his debut in a filmography in 1989, when he played Cee in “Do The Right Thing”. One year later he appeared in a “House Party” and then in a “House Party 2”. One of the greatest breakthroughs Martin made was because of the movie “Bad Boys” directed by Michael Bay – this movie was released in 1995 with Lawrence in the main role. There he filmed together with the famous Will Smith. In 1996 “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate” was released, and Martin not only played Darnell Wright, but was also the director, narrator and executive producer, and this great movie only increased Lawrence’s net worth even more. One of his most recent appearances was in his role in “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son”, where he played Malcolm Turner, and was an executive producer.
However, despite his great talent as an actor, comedian and producer, Lawrence has some serious problems with his health. Everything started in 1995, when “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate” was being filmed. Then M. Lawrence suddenly showed extremely violent behaviour and was immediately hospitalized. One year afterwards, this story was repeated one more time, but now police were also involved as Lawrence had a pistol with him. After the second hospitalization his behaviour didn’t change, and of course, it wasn’t very good for the net worth of Martin Lawrence. In the next two years he was arrested twice – once for carrying a gun in an airport and once for injuring a man in a nightclub. In 1999 Lawrence was even in a coma for three days, and this is the reason why his net worth wasn’t growing as fast as it could.
So now you know how rich is Martin Lawrence.
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