Tommy Chong Bio | Wiki
Tommy Chong is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, musician, and activist. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin. Tommy played the character Leo on Fox’s That ’70s Show. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.
Tommy Chong Age
Tommy was born on May 24, in 1938, in Edmonton, Canada. He is 84 years old.
Tommy Chong Height
He is a man of tall stature and stands at a height of 6 ft 2 in (Approx. 1.85 m).
Tommy Chong Family
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to his parents Stanley Chong, and Lorna Jean Gilchrist. Tommy’s mother was of Scotch-Irish Canadian ancestry, and his father was a Chinese Canadian who immigrated in the 1930s. He had an older brother, Stan who died in 2019. After arriving in Canada, the senior Chong first lived with an aunt in Vancouver.
As a youth, Tommy moved with his family to Calgary, settling in a conservative neighborhood. He has said that his father had “been wounded in World War II and there was a veterans’ hospital in Calgary. He bought a $500 house in Dog Patch and raised his family on $50 a week.
Tommy Chong Wife
In 1960, Tommy married Maxine Sneed in Canada. They raised two daughters, Rae Dawn by his previous wife Gail Lewis, and Robbi Chong. They divorced in 1970. In 1975, Tommy married Shelby Fiddis in Los Angeles. They had three children, sons Paris and Gilbran, and daughter Precious.
In 1978, the couple adopted Marcus Wyatt. Rae Dawn, Robbi, Marcus, Paris, and Precious have each pursued careers in acting. In addition to film work, in May 2011, Precious had her play, Push … One Mother of a Show, produced in Toronto.
Tommy Chong Education
In an interview, Tommy described how he dropped out of Crescent Heights High School when he was 16. He used to played guitar to make money. By the early 1960s, he was playing guitar for a Calgary soul group called the Shades. The Shades moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the band’s name changed to “Little Daddy & the Bachelors”.
Tommy Chong Jail
In 2003, Tommy became caught up in two American investigations, code-named Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter, which tried to trace drug traffic and users through businesses selling drug paraphernalia, mostly bongs. He was charged for his part in financing and promoting Chong Glass/Nice Dreams, a company started by his son Paris. He served his sentence at the Taft Correctional Institution from October 8, 2003, to July 7, 2004.
Tommy was absent during the fifth and sixth seasons of the show as he was serving a brief jail sentence; upon his release, he returned to the series for its final two seasons. In 2006, he published a memoir about his experiences in jail and his exploration of meditation, called The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint.
Tommy Chong That 70s Show
From 1999 to 2002, he played Leo Chingkwake in That 70s Show. Tommy was absent during the fifth and sixth seasons of the show as he was serving a brief jail sentence; upon his release. He returned to the series for its final two seasons. He also played a role as a hippie in Dharma & Greg.
Tommy Chong Movies
WWE Raw
The Simpsons
Franklin and Bash Raising Hope
The Millers
Dancing with the Stars
Uncle Grandpa
Trailer Park Boys: Out Of the Park: USA
The Masked Singer
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Color Out of Space
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman’s Chance
Zootopia
Tommy Chong Up In Smoke
In 1978, he played Anthony “Man” Stoner in Up in Smoke, a 1978 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and starring Cheech Marin, Tommy, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, and Tom Skerritt. It is Cheech & Chong’s first feature-length film.
Tommy Chong Jordan Belfort
While at the Taft Correctional Institution, Tommy was a cellmate of “The Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort, who credits him for encouraging Belfort to write his memoirs. They have remained friends ever since.
These events were among those chronicled in a/k/a Tommy Chong (2006), a documentary by Josh Gilbert. It premiered theatrically at the New York Film Forum in New York City and won awards. His time in prison was also a main point in his book, “The I Chong”.
Tommy Chong Zootopia
He was originally going to voice the character of Shenzi, the hyena in the Disney film The Lion King. Cheech Marin voiced Banzai. The Shenzi character was changed to a female and was voiced instead by Whoopi Goldberg. Tommy provided the voice of the character Yax in the 2016 Disney film Zootopia.
Tommy Chong Masked Singer
On January 9, 2019, he competed in season one of The Masked Singer as “Pineapple” where he sang “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. On May 23, 2019, Chong appeared on episode #1303 of the internet video podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, hosted by Joe Rogan.
Tommy Chong Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Tommy’s estimated net worth is $20 million.
Is Tommy Chong Asian
Tommy’s mother was of Scotch-Irish Canadian ancestry, and his father was a Chinese Canadian who immigrated in the 1930s.
Where Does Tommy Chong Live
He has a beautiful home in the Pacific Palisades, in Los Angeles, surrounded by$30, $40 million homes.