“In a career defined by breaking stereotypes, Dwayne Johnson began by rewriting a well-worn cliché. For him, necessity was the mother of reinvention. After a nomadic childhood marked by economic insecurity, Dwayne was down to his last $7. At 23, he had just seen his dream of playing professional football slip away. Rather than retreat, Dwayne threw himself into the first of a series of bold transformations. Over his father’s objections (but with his mother’s blessing), Dwayne plunged headlong into professional wrestling. He emerged as the most popular and successful wrestler of all time. Dwayne risked that success by reinventing himself once more as an actor and, over the years, eventually becoming the highest-paid leading man in Hollywood. He followed that by expanding into producing film, TV, and digital programming through the resonantly named Seven Bucks Productions. In addition, Dwayne wrote a memoir that became a New York Times No. 1 bestseller and has channeled his other, varied passions into a range of philanthropic and entrepreneurial endeavors.”
