Donald Faison
Donald Faison was born in New York City, New York, United States on June 22nd, 1974 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 49, Donald Faison biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Donald Adeosun Faison (born June 22, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor best known for his role as Dr..
Chris Turk in the ABC/NBC comedy-drama Scrubs (2001–2010), as well as a supporting role as Murray in both the film Clueless (1995) and the subsequent television series of the same name.
He appeared in the TV Land sitcom The Exes from 2011–15. Faison has appeared in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Uptown Girls (2003), Something New (2006), Next Day Air (2009), and Kick-Ass 2 (2013).
Early life
Faison was born in Harlem, New York City, and Donald Faison, a building manager. In 1992, his parents divorced. Olamide Faison, the older brother of singer/guitarist Olamide Faison, is his brother. In the west African language of Yoruba, his middle name derives from the words "ade" (meaning "crown") and "osun" (meaning "river of life). His parents appeared at the National Black Theatre in Harlem. He and his best friend, actress Dash Mihok, attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.
Personal life
Faison began dating Lisa Askey, a nursing student, in 1997. Both of them were married from 2001 to 2005. On December 15, 2012, Faison married CaCee Cobb, his second wife, after six years of dating. The wedding was held at the home of Faison's former Scrubs co-star and best friend Zach Braff, who also served as a groomsman. Jessica Simpson, who worked as Cobb's personal assistant, was serving as a bridesmaid.
Faison has six children: son Shawn, born in 1997 with ex-girlfriend Audrey Ince; fraternal boy-girl twins Dade and Kaya born in 1999; and second wife Lisa Askey; and daughter Wilder was born in 2015. After their mother Lisa Askey died in 2017, dade, Kaya, and Kobe joined Donald and CaCee.
Career
Faison first appeared in a 1989 commercial for Folgers coffee at the age of 15, in which he played the younger brother of a soldier returning from war. In 1992, he appeared with Malik Yoba in the ABC News special Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions, hosted by Peter Jennings. He also had a small role in Sugar Hill starring Wesley Snipes. He then became famous for his role as Murray Duvall in the 1995 film Clueless and the subsequent television series, which ran from 1996 to 1999. In 1995, he also appeared in Waiting to Exhale as Tarik, the son of Loretta Devine's character, Gloria. He was featured in New Jersey Drive. He also starred in Big Fat Liar alongside Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, and Amanda Bynes. He had a recurring role as Tracy on Felicity, appeared in Remember the Titans as the running-back turned corner-back Petey Jones, and provided voice work for various characters in the MTV animated series Clone High. He had minor roles in the sitcoms Sister, Sister and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and in the film Josie and the Pussycats. In 2005, Faison produced one episode of MTV's Punk'd involving his Scrubs co-star Zach Braff. He also appeared in the music videos for Brandy's "Sittin' Up in My Room," Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It," and Gavin Degraw's "Chariot."
In 2008, Faison voiced Gary the Stormtrooper in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II. Afterwards, he interned on the Robot Chicken show to learn more about stop motion animation, and started a Star Wars-themed Lego stop-motion show, BlackStormTrooper, on his YouTube channel, shundigga.
On February 13, 2009, Faison participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game. Other celebrities participating included NBA Hall of Famers Clyde Drexler and Dominique Wilkins, NFL wide-receiver Terrell Owens, actor Chris Tucker, and four Harlem Globetrotters.
In 2010, Faison starred alongside Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel, Eric Balfour, Laz Alonso, and Crystal Reed in the Brothers Strause science fiction thriller Skyline.
Faison was in the 2010 CBS comedy pilot The Odds.
As of March 2011, Faison appeared in commercials for The Sims Medieval. In 2012, he made a cameo appearance in the movie Pitch Perfect. In 2013, Faison hosted the short-lived TBS comedy sketch show Who Gets the Last Laugh?. From 2016 to 2018, he hosted the GSN game show Winsanity.
From 2018 until 2020, Faison voiced pilot Hype Fazon, a character written and named for him by Dave Filoni, in Star Wars Resistance. Faison had caught Filoni's attention via his stop motion Star Wars cartoons.
Faison and Scrubs co-star Zach Braff co-host the rewatch podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends, which launched in March 2020, sharing their stories and experiences of shooting the show. The podcast is distributed by iHeartRadio.