1. Tracy Jamal Morgan was born on November 10,1968 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
45 Facts About Tracy Morgan
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Tracy Morgan was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003, and played Tracy Jordan in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 2006 to 2013, each of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Tracy Morgan starred as Tray Barker in the TBS comedy The Last OG.
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Tracy Morgan is the second of five children of a homemaker, Alicia, and James Morgan Jr IV, a musician who left the family when Morgan was six years old.
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Tracy Morgan's father named him Tracy in honor of a platoon mate and friend who shipped off to Vietnam with him and was killed in action days later.
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The target of bullies as a child, Tracy Morgan attended DeWitt Clinton High School.
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Tracy Morgan married his girlfriend Sabina that year and dropped out of high school just four credits short of his diploma to care for his ailing father.
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Tracy Morgan made his screen debut playing Hustle Man on the sitcom Martin.
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Tracy Morgan was a regular cast member on Uptown Comedy Club, a sketch-comedy show filmed in Harlem that aired for two seasons, from 1992 to 1994.
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Tracy Morgan joined the cast of the comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1996, and performed as a regular until 2003.
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Tracy Morgan returned to host on March 14,2009, and reprised his roles as Brian Fellow and Astronaut Jones.
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Tracy Morgan then made a guest appearance on the 2011 Christmas show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, and hosted again on October 17,2015.
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Morgan had his own sitcom, The Tracy Morgan Show, in 2003, which was canceled after one season.
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From 2006 to 2013, Tracy Morgan was a cast member of the television series 30 Rock.
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Tracy Morgan played the character Tracy Jordan, a caricature of himself.
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Tracy Morgan returned to the role in July 2020 for a reunion episode during the COVID-19 pandemic that was an upfront special for NBCUniversal.
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In 2018, Tracy Morgan began starring in the TBS series The Last OG.
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Tracy Morgan appeared in a stand-up special, One Mic, on Comedy Central.
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Tracy Morgan hosted the first Spike Guys' Choice Awards, which aired on June 13,2007.
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Tracy Morgan was the voice of Luis in the animated film Rio.
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Tracy Morgan acted in commercials for NFL 2K, NBA 2K, and NHL 2K, co-starring with Warren Sapp, Ben Wallace and Jeremy Roenick.
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Tracy Morgan appeared in Adam Sandler's film The Longest Yard as a transgender inmate.
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Tracy Morgan is the ninth recipient of the prestigious comedy award, and the first Black recipient.
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Tracy Morgan has listed Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Pryor as among his primary comedic influences.
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In 1987, while in high school, Tracy Morgan married his girlfriend Sabina.
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Tracy Morgan filed for divorce in August 2009, after having been separated for approximately eight years.
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Tracy Morgan donated one of her kidneys to Morgan in December 2010.
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In September 2011, on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, Tracy Morgan announced he and model Megan Wollover had become engaged six months earlier in San Francisco.
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In 2023, on an episode of Finding Your Roots, Tracy Morgan discovered he is third cousins with American rapper Nas.
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In 1996, Tracy Morgan was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and for years has been an alcoholic.
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Tracy Morgan has conceded that many of his own troubles were incorporated within 30 Rock episodes.
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In early December 2010, Tracy Morgan received a kidney transplant necessitated by his diabetes and alcohol use.
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Tracy Morgan admitted that he initially did not take his diabetes seriously but later realized the care for it would end up being a matter of life and death.
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On March 17,2025, while sitting courtside at an NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and Miami Heat, Tracy Morgan experienced an episode of food poisoning, which caused him to vomit onto the basketball court sideline and suffer a bloody nose.
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Tracy Morgan appeared on National Public Radio's Fresh Air hosted by Terry Gross, at times becoming very emotional about his former life in a New York ghetto.
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On June 7,2014, Tracy Morgan was a passenger in a Mercedes Sprinter minibus involved in a six-vehicle crash in New Jersey.
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On June 20,2014, Tracy Morgan was released from the hospital and was transferred to a rehabilitation facility to continue recovering from the injuries sustained during the crash.
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Tracy Morgan was released from the rehab center on July 12,2014.
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Tracy Morgan filed the suit on behalf of himself, comedian Ardie Fuqua, Tracy Morgan's personal assistant Jeffrey Millea, and Millea's wife Krista.
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Fuqua and Millea were both on the bus with Tracy Morgan and injured in the crash, while at the time of the crash, Krista Millea was eight months pregnant, and the suit charges that she suffered loss of consortium due to the injuries suffered by her husband.
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On June 1,2015, Tracy Morgan made his first public appearance since the crash, in an interview with Matt Lauer on Today.
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Tracy Morgan stated that he had no memory of the crash.
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Tracy Morgan then hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live on October 17,2015.
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Tracy Morgan said she returned the following day and was allowed five minutes with Morgan, who was still comatose at the time.
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In June 2019, Tracy Morgan was involved in a minor collision in his newly purchased Bugatti Veyron, and he was captured on video tapping on the other driver's window and yelling, "Bitch, get out of the car".