Martin Fitzgerald LawrenceStated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio (born April 16, 1965) is an actor, comedian, director and producer. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor. Biography Early life Lawrence was given his first name after Martin Luther King, Jr. and his middle name after that of John F. Kennedy. He was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where his father, John Lawrence, served in the US military. He has three siblings, Robert, Rae and Ursula. When Lawrence was seven, his father left the military and the family moved from Germany back to the United States, settling in Landover, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C., area. After his parents divorced in 1973, Lawrence rarely saw his father, who worked as a police officer.http://www.filmreference.com/film/1