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American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter Donnie Wayne Johnson was born
December 15, 1949, in Flat Creek, Missouri, United States. Johnson became a household name
when he starred as James "Sonny" Crockett on the popular NBC television series "Miami Vice"
(1984-1990), winning a Golden Globe for his work in the role. The actor has also
appeared in dozens of films Born Yesterday, Tin Cup, Django Unchained and Knives Out.
Donnie Wayne Johnson was born to Wayne Fred Johnson, a farmer and Nell Johnson,
a beautician. At the time of his birth, Johnson's mother and father were 17 and 19 years old,
respectively. He grew up in poverty with 3 siblings, Casey, Linda, and Greg.
Don attended Wichita South High School, where he played Tony in a school production of "West
Side Story." He graduated in 1967 and dropped out of college a year after enrolling as a
theater major at the University of Kansas. Johnson then moved to San Francisco to
study at the American Conservatory Theater.
Don Johnson has been married 5 times,
and his first 2 marriages were quickly annulled within a matter of days. The names of Johnson's
first two wives have not been made public. During the first half of 1972, Johnson met
the 14-year-old Melanie Griffith. When Griffith was 15, she and Johnson began living together
and on her 18th birthday they became engaged. The couple were married in January 1976 and
divorced in November. They reunited close to the start of 1989, and gave birth to a daughter,
actress Dakota Johnson and were married again from that year until 1996.
Johnson next had relationships with Barbra Streisand,
then 18-year-old Uma Thurman and 18-year-old Jodi Lyn O'Keefe.
On April 29, 1999, Johnson married San Francisco socialite and Montessori nursery school teacher
Kelley Phleger. Johnson and Phleger have three children together: a daughter, Atherton Grace,
and two sons, Jasper Breckinridge, and Deacon.
The actor also has another son, actor Jesse Wayne Johnson,
to former Warhol model Patti D'Arbanville, whom he lived with from 1981 to 1985.
Johnson spent the first years of his career the way most actors do, trying out for parts and
struggling to make it. His first major role was in the 1969 Los Angeles stage production of "Fortune
and Men's Eyes", which led to his big screen debut in 1970's "The Magic Garden of Stanley
Sweetheart." Johnson continued to work on stage, film and television without breaking into stardom.
He had the dream come true when he achieved massive success as undercover police detective
Sonny Crockett in the Michael Mann/Universal Television cop series, "Miami Vice".
The show ran from 1984 to 1990. "Miami Vice" made Johnson "a major international star" and earned
him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama in 1986.
Following a TV hiatus after the end of "Vice," Johnson returned to primetime prominence
with the 1996–2001 CBS-TV police drama "Nash Bridges". His continued to appeared in movies
and television throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Some of his works include When In Rome (2010),
Machete (2010), Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2013), Knives Out (2019),
HBO series Eastbound & Down, and Watchmen. Johnson currently co-stars in "Kenan". The
actor has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions.
Here are the 5 best movies starring Don Johnson that you should check out, according to IMDB:
As of 2021, Don Johnson has an estimated net worth of more than $50 million.
In 2013, Johnson and his fourth wife, Phleger, purchased a French Country Farmhouse estate
set in three acres in Montecito, California. Built in the early 1900s, this property offers
11,229-square-foot of living space, has 17 rooms, a bar, a pool, its own elevator and smashing
views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The actor has listed the house for just under $15 million.
In 2010, Don sued Rysher Entertainment, the production company that produced "Nash Bridges,"
claiming that Rysher had not paid him the syndication profits he was owed as 50%
owner of the show's copyright. In July of that year, a jury awarded Johnson $23.2 million; though
Rysher initially said that they would appeal the verdict, they paid Don $19 million in 2013.
Johnson released two albums of pop music in the 1980s. Heartbeat and Let it Roll. His single
"Heartbeat" reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. "Till I Loved You",
a duet with then-girlfriend Barbra Streisand, was a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1986, Johnson achieved his first motor sport victory. He won a 1,100-mile powerboat race up the
Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis. Characterized by shipmates as an aggressive,
fearless pilot who did not make mistakes, Johnson was named the American Power Boat Association's
1988 World Champion of the Offshore World Cup. So how do you think about him? Leave a comment
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