White is a former special education teacher and taught students with behavioral problems for three years. White holds seven legitimate black belts in Kyokushin Karate, Goju-Ryu Karate, Shotokan Karate, Taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Kobudo, and Wushu. He next took up Shōtōkan and moved on to other styles later. White started training in the martial arts at the age of four in Jujutsu. White is a martial artist in nine different styles: Shōtōkan, Goju-Ryu (for which he studied under Master Eddie Morales where he learned to sharpen his Goju karate technique), Taekwondo, Kobudō, Tang Soo Do, Wushu, Jujutsu, Kyokushin and Boxing, with a specific focus in Kyokushin Karate (although his style incorporates aspects of many different martial arts forms). He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film Black Dynamite, as well as the animated series of the same name. He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television film Tyson. White portrayed Jax Briggs in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and the Cyborg Seth in Universal Soldier: The Return. ![]() ![]() White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, and starred as the character on the TBS/ OWN comedy-drama television series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse. He was the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, starring as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn. Michael Jai White (born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director and martial artist.
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