Jason Momoa Net Worth

Jason Momoa's Quotes

• I was 19 and folding T-shirts in a surf shop. And I got chosen out of 1,300 people to play a leading role on 'Baywatch Hawaii'. I didn't even know how to act. It took me five years to get an agent after [that]. No one would take me seriously after 'Baywatch'. I lived in the shadow of that for a long time.
• My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'
• I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
• I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
• I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Interesting Facts about Jason Momoa

1. Won the 1999 Hawaii's Model of the Year.
2. Participated in the Governor's Fashion Show and Liberty House fashion show.
3. Hosted the 1999 Miss Teen Hawaii USA contest.
4. Enjoys rock and ice climbing, mountain biking, snowboarding, long-board skateboarding, and roller hockey. Spends his free time on Buddhist studies.
5. In his mid-teens he became the youngest lifeguard in the history of the Gulf Coast.
6. Proposed to girlfriend, Simmone Mackinnon, in Hawaii, in June 2004.
7. Nephew of famed surfer Brian L. Keaulana.
8. Was engaged to Simmone Mackinnon from June 2004 until mid-2006.
9. He and Lisa Bonet welcomed their first child, a daughter, born on July 23, 2007; named Lola Iolani Momoa.
10. He and his wife, Lisa Bonet, welcomed their second child, a boy named Nakoa-Wolf, in mid-December 2008.
11. On November 15, 2008, Momoa was attacked with a broken beer glass in West Hollywood, California. According to an AP news article, 140 stitches and subsequent reconstructive surgery were required.
12. He shares one middle name, Namakaeha, with his father.
13. His father is from a Native Hawaiian family, with a small amount of English ancestry, from Massachusetts. His mother, who is from Iowa, is of three-quarters German descent. (Her maternal grandfather was adopted.).
14. In Stargate: Atlantis: Epiphany (2005), co-star David Hewlett calls Jason's character Conan, the name of a character Jason would later play in the Conan the Barbarian (1982) remake, Conan the Barbarian (2011).
15. Second husband of Lisa Bonet.
16. Stepfather of Zoë Kravitz.
17. Momoa is frequently cast as warriors: Ronon Dex in the science-fiction television series Stargate: Atlantis (2004), Conan in the 2011 reboot, Conan the Barbarian (2011), and Khal Drogo in the HBO fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones (2011).
18. In Polynesian, the word "momoa" means dry.
19. Said in an interview that during the filming of Game of Thrones (2011), the sex scenes were the most difficult.
20. Replaced Luke Evans for the role of Eric Draven in The Crow, a remake of the Brandon Lee film The Crow (1994).