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TISHA CAMPBELL BIOGRAPHY

Writer's picture: Sejal PanditSejal Pandit

Updated: Mar 19, 2022


NET WORTH: 500 thousand USD.

AGE: 53 years old.

BORN: 13th October 1968.

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

SOURCE OF WEALTH: American actress, comedian, singer, and dancer.


Introduction


Tisha Michelle Campbell, popularly known as Tisha Campbell-Martin in the industry, is an American actress, comedian, singer, and dancer. Her net worth as of 2021 is estimated to be around 500 thousand USD. It has also come into light that Tisha is drowning into 15 million USD worth of debt.


Tisha is well known for some of her most impactful roles in Regina "Gina" Waters-Payne on the FOX series, ‘Little shops of horrors’ and ‘Rags to riches.’ Apart from her professional life, Tisha’s social life is very active and interesting. Currently, Tisha has around 2.1 million followers on Instagram and 660.5k followers on Twitter.





Early life

Tisha was born on 13th October 1968 in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was brought up in Newark, New Jersey where she went to Newark Arts high school and the Washington Academy of Music.


Tisha’s love and enthusiasm for music comes from her parents. Her Father, Clifton Campbell is a Singer, Magician, and a factory manager. Her Mother, Mona Washington is an American nurse, vocal coach, Manager, and a gospel singer. Tisha’s parents also had a musical career of their own. She has four siblings including two brothers: Germaine Campbell and Stanley Campbell and a sister. Her other sibling is currently out of the public eye.


Tisha and Duane Martin, the former basketball player, actor, and a real estate agent decided to tie their knot in 1996. The couple has two beautiful sons Xen Whaheed and Exekiel Czar. Tisha and Duane finalized their divorce on 22nd February 2020.


Career

When Tisha was only six years old, she made her appearance in an episode of ‘The Big Blue Marble.’ Not only that, she also made appearance in some of the popular shows such as ‘Kids are people too’, ‘Captain Kangaroo’ and ‘Unicorn Tales’. Tisha decided to focus on her acting career after graduating from high school and hence moved to Hollywood. There she starred in various series such as ‘Rags to Riches’ and films such as ‘School Daze’, ‘Rooftops’, ‘Boomerang’, ‘House party’ and ‘Another 48 hrs.’




Tisha came into the limelight when she joined the cast of ‘Martin’ starring Martin Lawrence in 1992. In 1997, she left the show after acting in 122 episodes due to the Sexual Harassment Scandal by Martin Lawrence. The dispute was later settled in court. From 2005 to 2011, she appeared in films and shows such as ‘My wife and kids’, ‘The last place on earth’, ‘Everybody hates Chris’, ‘The protector’ and ‘Dr Ken’.


Looking at Tisha’s music career, she released her debut album ‘Tisha’ in 1992 followed by several singles at the end of 2010s such as ‘Be alone Tonight’, ‘Push’, ‘Love me down’ and many more. From 1991 to 2010, she was nominated for numerous awards among which she won the title of "Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2003 and "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2004.


Highlights


1) "Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2003 for My wife and kids.

2) "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2004 for My wife and kids.

3) Featured single- All cried out in 2014.

4) Her most popular track is ‘Steel here’.

5) Most of you might know this but Tisha Campbell voices Tawny young on Harley Quinn!


Favorite quotes


Here are few of the most impactful quotes by Tisha Campbell:


1)“Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it’s hard for them, but it can happen.”


2) “Although I look really good holding a gun, I can’t shoot. I can’t shoot anything. I’m the worst shot.”


3) “I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.”


3 powerful lessons


Tisha Campbell is a powerful woman radiating powerful lessons in the world. Few of which are:


1) Different means special: Someone who follows Tisha till date might even know that she is very supportive towards ‘Different’ precisely, autistic children. She even produced a short film named ‘Colors of mind’ which is a non-profit organization based on autistic children. She firmly believes that such children need to be taken care of and has spoken about it on various occasions. She also concludes that differently abled children have very powerful and interesting minds which we need to spread light on.


2) Always stand up for yourself- Tisha is a strong and fierce woman. While appearing in her role in ‘Martin’ starring Martin Lawrence in 1992, her acting career was reaching heights and proving out to be a very good experience for Tisha, but not for long. Later in 1997, she faced a publicized sexual harassment scandal against Martin Lawrence. Despite of the fact that the show would have helped her grow to heights, she decided to leave the show. In a short time that year, she made her strong comeback in the film ‘Sprung’. This proves that Tisha is not among those who fall and don’t get up. She is not the giving-up types. Despite of some threatening experiences on the show, Tisha did not give up on her acting career.





Summary


Tisha Campbell is a 53-year-old popular American actress, singer, comedian, and dancer famous for her role as “Gina” from the Fox series. As for music, her most viral song of all times is ‘Steel here’ adored by thousands of listeners across the globe. Married to Duane Martin in 1996, had 2 beautiful and later divorced in 2020.


Tisha Campbell’s net worth is estimated to be around 500 thousand USD as of 2021. Speaking of financial matters, she is also claimed to be drowning in a debt of 15 million USD.




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