Michael Jai White

Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White
	White in January 2016
Born	New York City, U.S.
Occupations	Actor; director; martial artist;
Years active	1989–present
Spouses	; Courtenay Chatman (m. 2005; div. 2011) ; Gillian Iliana Waters (m. 2015)
Children	7

Michael Jai White is an American martial artist and actor. He was the first Black American to portray a major comic book superhero^[1] starring as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn.^{[note 1]} White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? (2007) and Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and starred as the character on the TBS/OWN comedy-drama television series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse. White portrayed Jax Briggs in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and the Cyborg Seth in Universal Soldier: The Return, opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme. He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television film Tyson. He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film Black Dynamite (2009), as well as the animated series of the same name.

^ "Michael Jai White is first Black comic superhero to star on the movie screen in 'Spawn.'". Jet magazine. September 22, 1997. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2009.

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[jetmag_spawn-1] "Michael Jai White is first Black comic superhero to star on the movie screen in 'Spawn.'". Jet magazine. September 22, 1997. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2009.

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