KEVIN HART
Date of Birth: 1980
While working as a shoe salesman in Philadelphia, Kevin Hart decided to give standup a try at a local comedy club's amateur night. He was a success and began performing full time at clubs such as the Boston Comedy Club, Caroline's, Stand-Up NY, The Improvisation, The Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. His performance at the Montreal Comedy Festival led to work in feature films such as Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003) and Along Came Polly (2004). He has also made guest appearances on the TV series Undeclared (2002) and worked on a pilot called Class of '06 (2002).
Hart executive-produced, wrotes and starred in the ABC-TV sitcom The Big House, which debuted April 2, 2004 and was loosely based on his family in Philadelphia. He also played the lead role of Nashawn in Soul Plane (2004), about a man who is awarded $100 million as a settlement after a humiliating and horrific experience on a commercial airline flight. Hart went on to star in several other feature films, including Little Fockers (2010), Let Go (2011), and most recently, Think Like a Man (2012) and The Five-Year Engagement (2012).
In 2005 he won a Platinum Mic Viewers Choice Award at the BET Comedy Awards.
Hart has two children with his wife, Torrie, whom he married in 2003.