Tony Hawk is one of the most popular and richest Skateboarder who was born on May 12, 1968 in Carlsbad, California, United States. Individual sports icon who became a star for redefining vertical skateboarding, founding Birdhouse, and launching a successful video game series.
He made cameo appearances in Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two and Jackass 3D with Johnny Knoxville.
Anthony Frank “Tony” Hawk (born May 12, 1968) is an American professional skateboarder, actor, stuntman, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. Hawk completed the first documented 900, licensed a video game series published by Activision, and is one of the pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding.
In 1986, Hawk was a featured skateboarder and skater-double for Josh Brolin in the movie Thrashin’. In 1987, he made a brief appearance in the movie Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol with David Spade. In 1989, he appeared as a skateboarder in Gleaming the Cube. In 2002, he appeared in Neal H. Moritzs’s and Christopher Gilcrest’s film xXx playing the role of one of Xander Cage’s stuntman friends, and later in the movie, a skateboarder at a party. In 2004, he played himself in the Australian skateboarding movie Deck Dogz. In 2006, he made a cameo on the film Drake & Josh Go Hollywood as himself. Hawk also had a cameo in the movie The New Guy, and appeared in Jackass: The Movie with Mat Hoffman and Bam Margera, skateboarding in a fat suit and Jackass Number Two, while skateboarding through an obstacle course. He was also in Jackass 3D. Tony appears in the film following the 2006 Gumball Rally, 3000 Miles, again with Bam Margera. He also plays the police officer who arrests Ryan Dunn in the movie Haggard: The Movie. Hawk also made a brief cameo appearance in Lords of Dogtown as an astronaut, where he is shown comically falling off the skateboard as he is a “rookie”. He voiced himself in the 2006 animated movie Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage, where he is kidnapped by circus freaks.
He was married to Cindy Dunbar from 1990 to 1993 and Erin Lee from 1996 to 2004. In 2006, he married Lhotse Merriam. He has three sons, Riley, Keegan and Spencer, and a daughter, Kadence.
