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”.
He was raised in an Oxford trailer park alongside his six siblings. He was a Master-at-Arms in the US Navy for six years as a young adult. Owen also served in the Presidential Honor Guard.
Is Gary Owen Divorce?
Gary Owen and Kenya Duke got married in 2003 and were together for 18 years before Duke filed for divorce in March 2021. Three children, Austin, Kennedy, and Emilio, are shared by them.
While Austin and Kennedy are the biological children of Owen and Duke, they are both twenty-one and twenty-one years old, respectively. Emilio is the thirty-one-year-old biological son of Duke and Emilio Toliver Senior.
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Gary Owen’s wife, Kenya Duke, files for divorce after nearly 18 years of marriage!! pic.twitter.com/VJljeao2Ob
— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) March 20, 2021
The media took notice of the divorce between Kenya Duke and Gary Owen, which was reportedly brought on by irreconcilable differences. Kenya Duke, who left her job as an account manager to help the comedian, requested $44,000 a month in spousal support from Owen.
Kenya Duke accused Gary Owen of having extramarital affairs while they were married and of hiding money from the family during the divorce process. In a now-deleted Instagram post, she even went so far as to call him a “lying narcissist” and accuse him of not paying the mortgage, which she purportedly paid.
Gary Owen, on the other hand, initially refrained from commenting on the situation because of legal counsel. Nevertheless, in June 2021, he finally addressed Kenya’s accusations when he made an appearance on the Wendy Williams Show. A “big twist” had occurred in their divorce, he mentioned, but he was unable to discuss it 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 as part of a large ensemble cast in 2012. 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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