Gary Owen is an American actor and stand-up comedian. In 1997, Gary Owen made his television debut on the stand-up comedy program “ComicView.” After that, he started starring in a lot of comedic movies, such as “College,” “Little Man,” “Daddy Day Care,” “Held Up,” and “Think Like a Man.”
Notably, Owen’s appearances on the cable channel BET have helped him garner a sizable African-American fan base. Owens was declared by Ebony to be “Black America’s Favorite White Comic”.
Gary Owen Divorce
Gary Owen, the American comedian, has been open about his estrangement from his family following his divorce from his estranged wife, Kenya Duke. Gary Owen, 48, said that he hasn’t spoken to his kids in a year during an August 23 appearance on The Breakfast Club podcast.
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Kenya Duke and Gary Owen were married in 2003. Austin, Kennedy, and Emilio are the three children they have together. Duke and Emilio Toliver Senior’s biological son is Emilio, their 31-year-old eldest child. Owen and Duke have two biological children, Austin, 20, and Kennedy, 21.
Following eighteen years of marriage, Duke filed for divorce in March 2021 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, California, citing irreconcilable differences.
People Magazine revealed in June of that same year that Duke had requested $44,000 a month in spousal support from Owen due to her leaving her “promising career as an account manager” for the comedian.
The podcaster and businesswoman, though, didn’t hesitate to reveal the details of her marriage on social media. Duke accused Gary Owen of hiding money from the family and having extramarital affairs while they were married in an Instagram post that has since been removed.
Kenya Duke allegedly paid the mortgage, and in a lengthy post that she shared, she tagged the comedian and demanded that he “stop lying about paying the mortgage,” according to Hot New Whip Whop.
Check out the below tweet:-
Oop! Gary Owen’s estranged wife Kenya Duke calls him out for allegedly lying about paying the mortgage 👀 pic.twitter.com/sA8ci8DYU5
— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) November 6, 2021
Gary Owen also addressed Kenya’s allegations when he showed up on the Wendy Williams Show in June 2021. There is a “big twist” in his divorce from Duke, he said, adding that his lawyer had asked him not to comment on the situation at the time.
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Gary Owen Film Career
After making his breakthrough as a stand-up comedian, Owen started making big-screen cameo appearances in comedic films. In the 1999 buddy crime comedy “Held Up,” starring Jamie Foxx and Nia Long, he made his screen debut. Then, in 2003, Owen starred in small roles in the movies “Daddy Day Care” and “Love Chronicles.” He appeared as a mascot in the basketball comedy “Rebound” in 2005.
The following year, he made appearances in “Little Man” and “Who Made the Potatoe Salad?” in the role of a police officer. In 2008, Owen played a larger role in the film “College,” as Brian “Bearcat” Miller. Among the people he appeared with were Haley Bennett, Andrew Caldwell, Drake Bell, and Kevin Covais.
In the romantic comedy “Think Like a Man,” directed by Tim Story and costarring Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, and numerous others, Owen made an appearance in a large ensemble cast. The character he portrayed was Bennett, the “Happily Married Man.”
In 2014, Story and Hart came together once more for the buddy cop action comedy “Ride Along,” in which Owen portrayed Crazy Cody. In the same year, he returned to the Bennett character in “Think Like a Man Too.” Following that, Owen starred in movies including “Get Hard,” “Bachelors,” “Meet the Blacks,” and “Undercover Brother 2.” He starred in a noteworthy non-comedic role in the sports action film “Welcome to Sudden Death,” a reimagining of “Sudden Death,” in 2020 as janitor Gus. Next year, Owen starred in “The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2.”
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