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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Friday, April 2, 2004

Chips of The Rock

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By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

• Real name: Dwayne Douglas Johnson

• Other names: The Rock, The People's Champion, The Great One, The Brahma Bull

• Born: May 2, 1972

• Age: 31

• Ethnicity: Samoan-African American

• Local schools: Washington Intermediate, McKinley High

• Married to: The former Dany Garcia

• Children: Simone Alexandra Johnson, born Aug. 14, 2001

• Height: 6-feet-6

• Weight: 245 pounds

• Wrestling links: Father Rocky Johnson and maternal grandfather Chief Peter Fanene Maivia were professional wrestlers in th World Wrestling Federation

• Trivia notes:

  • First-ever seven-time WWE world champion
  • Once appeared with Martha Stewart Living to share a family recipe
  • Favorite eyebrows not his own: Groucho Marx's
  • Previously wrestled under the names of Rocky Maivia and Flex Kavana
  • Once offered a Dunkin' Donuts promotional deal, where a donut was going to be named after him — but declined to nibble
  • Played football at the University of Miami
  • The Rock action figure is one of the most popular WWE dolls
  • Stands tall as a wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum
  • His reported $5.5 million paycheck for "The Scorpion King" (2002) earned him a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actor receiving top billing for the first time.