Chris Tucker

Online info:Chris(Christopher) Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Mary, who was involved in church work, and Norris Tucker, who owned a janitorial service.Tucker was raised in Decatur, Georgia. After graduating from Columbia High School, he moved to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in comedy but he knew he had to get producers to put him in a movie so he did it to get a movie career.Through DNA tests (as aired on the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives), his paternal ancestry was traced back to the Mbundu ethnic group of Angola and his mother's to Cameroon; Tucker has also managed to trace his family tree back to the 1830s. The test also showed that Tucker's ancestry is 83 percent Sub-Saharan African, 10 percent Native American, and 7 percent European. Tucker traveled to Angola and Cameroon, the birthplace of his ancestors, with the program's host, Henry Louis Gates.Tucker is real life friends with Rush Hour co-star Jackie Chan, as well as singer Michael Jackson, and appeared in Jackson's video "You Rock My World" (2001) and on the intro of the track on the album Invincible. He also appeared at the beginning of the music video for "California Love" by Tupac Shakur. A friend of Bill Clinton, Tucker has travelled with the former President overseas, though he endorsed Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries. (Hell Yea)He also has a son named Destin Christopher Tucker, who is 8 years old and lives with his mother in Los Angeles (This is a fan based profile by Jeremy Smith)