Datari Turner was born in 1979, April 2 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a single child in his family and his parents gave him all their attention. The boy was a good kid growing up and he attended Blue Chip Illustrated High School in which he was one of the better football players of the school. After being done with high school Datari was wondering what would be the next step in his career. At first, he contemplated joining university or college so he applied for quite a few schools. He was accepted in one of them but decided not to attend because his career as a model was taking too much time and he would simply not be able to do studies and be a model at the same time.
Career
Turner is mostly known for his work as a producer but he has done some other things as well. Like previously mention he was working as a model before beginning a career in the entertainment world. As an actor, he could be credited with almost 20 different projects including Trey Haley's 2008 drama American Dream and Ty Hodges' drama Video Girl which was first shown in theaters in 2011. Regarding his career as a writer, Datari has written scripts for TV series Love Thy Sisters as well as I Married a Baller. However, it is certain that when people see Turner's name they immediately think of someone who is a famous producer. The guy has more than 15 years of experience in the industry and has worked alongside Jay-Z, Sean Combs and other titans of the entertainment industry. Since 2011, he was a producer or an executive producer of over 20 different projects and his work was featured in different film festivals grabbing public's attention and winning Turner awards and nominations. His most recent work include Growing Up Hip Hop, Lucky Girl, A Girl Like Grace, Some Velvet Morning and others. In 2016, Turner was working as a producer for Matthew A. Cherry's drama 9 Rides and Shawn Baker's drama Supermodel, both movies set to appear on the screen in 2016.
His television work can be summed up as a good one, just like most of the movies he was a part of.
Datari is the owner of a TV and film production company and the movies it produced got a lot of recognition.
Personal life
The producer does not have his own wiki page but there is some information about him from various sources on the internet. Datari was married to Claudia Jordan in 2009 but the two got a divorce and he was left without a wife. It is estimated that Turner's net worth is about 50 million dollars.
Trivia
After applying for various universities and colleges he was accepted at Yale's School of Drama but refused to become a student there because of his work as a model.
Had an exclusive contract with Ford Modeling agency.
Datari Turner is one of the biggest names in the world of producers. The most surprising thing is that his career in this kind of work has only just begun and it is only a matter of time before he starts producing stuff that is worthy of Oscars.
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
