• Name: Martin Lawrence
  
• Height: 5' 7"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: German
  
• Birth Date: April 16, 1965
  
• Birth Place: Frankfurt am Maen, Hessen, Germany
  
• Profession: actor, comedian
  
• Education: Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Landover, Maryland
  
• Husband/Wife: Patricia Southall (former Miss Virginia; married on January 7, 1995; divorced on September 17, 1996)
  
• Mother: Chlora Lawrence (former cashier; divorced in 1973)
  
• Sister: Rae Proctor (Lawrence's personal assistant) and Ursula Lawrence (born in 1966; runs Lawrence's fan club)
  
• Brother: Three brothers
  
• Daughter: Jasmine Page (born January 15, 1996)
  

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• About himself: "'This is somebody who's gone through some trials and tribulations in their life, which we all go through. But I was just able to talk about it in a form in which I make people laugh. It's the American dream to be down and get up.''
• "If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."

• Image Awards: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Martin (1996)
• Image Awards: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Martin (1995)
• ShoWest Award: Male Star of Tomorrow (1995)
• Star Search (1983) stand up comic award 1987

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