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Tommy Davidson

Tommy Davidson is a television and film actor and a stand up comedian of American nationality who was born in 1963. He was born in Mississippi and he was abandoned at 18 months in the trash and he was rescued by the adoptive parents. He was in the interracial adoption since he was adopted by the Caucasian parents and he is of African-American ethnicity. The family moved to live in Colorado in Wyoming of Oregon when he was 5 years old. They also settled in Maryland and there, he attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School of Maryland. After the graduation in the year 1982, he did communication and he was intern in University of The District of Columbian for a semester. He was working in a kitchen of hospital and a storeroom of the Hechinger in Maryland.

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From his biography, Tommy Davidson started to perform like a stand-up comedian after a friend convinced him in performing on the Penthouse strip club of Park View Washington. Afterwards, he continued to perform at many clubs around Washington metropolitan region of Baltimore and in Philadelphia. He was opening the concert of Kenny G, Starpoint and Patti Labelle. He was in the fundraising telethon for WHMM in the year 1987.

Tommy Davidson got the award for the amateur standup competition from Apollo Theater. Afterwards, he moved to go to live in California and he got to know Martin Lawrence. He started to perform on the Comedy Store and Robert Towsend heard about him and he asked him to be the warm-up for the HBO special. He performed on Anita Baker and Luther Vandross shows and then appeared on Arsenio Hall Show.

His first exposu8re to the show was In the Living Color and he was playing in many characters where he was the impersonation of Sugar Ray Leonard and Sammy Davis Jr and also the child victim called Homey D Clown. He released the standup performance for his comedy on the VHS tape under the name Illin in Philly and it was aired on regular basis on the Comedy Central called On Strength. He played the role in Black Dynamite as Cream Corn. He was in the TV show called Martin where he was playing in the Role of Varnell. Tommy Davidson with his fiancée was in the episode 11 of season 4 for the Celebrity Wife Swap and she swapped with the girlfriend of Corey Feldman called Courtney. When it comes to his height, he is not that tall since he has 5 feet with 6 inches and it is around 1.67 meters. He is a popular person on twitter and he has over 22 thousand followers on the website and this shows how a super star he is. He had tweeted over 2700 thousands. He has two children with his wife Arleen Davidson and his net worth is 2 million dollars.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 10 Nov, 1963
Age: 56 yrs
Occupations: Television actor
Film actor
Voice actor
Screenwriter
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Washington, D.C.
Education: Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Gender: Male
Description: Actor
Net Worth 2021: 2 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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