- Born
- Birth nameBroderick Stephen Harvey
- Nickname
- Steve
- Height1.88 m
- Broderick Stephen Harvey, Sr. is an American television host, actor, writer, producer, and comedian. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition, Family Feud Africa, and the arbitration-based court comedy Judge Steve Harvey.
Harvey began his career as a comedian. He performed stand-up comedy in the early 1980s and hosted Showtime at the Apollo and The Steve Harvey Show on The WB. He was later featured in The Original Kings of Comedy after starring in the Kings of Comedy Tour. His last stand-up show was in 2012.
Harvey is the host of both Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud, holding this role since 2010. He also hosted Little Big Shots, Little Big Shots Forever Young, and Steve Harvey's Funderdome. As an author, he has written four books, including his bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009.
In 2017, Harvey founded Steve Harvey Global, an entertainment company that houses his production company East 112 and various other ventures. He launched an African version of Family Feud and also invested in the HDNet takeover along with Anthem Sports and Entertainment. He and his wife Marjorie are the founders of The Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on youth education.
He is a seven-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, two-time Marconi Award winner, and a 14-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesMarjorie Harvey(June 25, 2007 - present) (2 children)Mary Lee Shackelford(June 21, 1996 - December 3, 2005) (divorced, 1 child)Marcia Whitman(February 14, 1981 - 1994) (divorced, 3 children)
- Children
- Frustrated yet amused reactions
- Always Wears Sharp Suits and Ties
- Moustache
- Straight hairline until 2008
- Large teeth
- His real name is Broderick Steve Harvey, and he was named after Broderick Crawford.
- Attended the University of Virginia.
- Received the 2,497th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 10/4/2013.
- Twin daughters, Brandi N Harvey and Karli Harvey (born in 1982), a son, Broderick, Jr. (born in 1991) with his first wife, Marcia Harvey. A son, Wynton Harvey (born on 7/18/1997) with his second wife, Mary Lee Shackleford.
- All three of his wives have names that start with "Mar". His first wife was Marcia, his second wife was Mary, and his current wife is Marjorie.
- Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
- A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.
- I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
- I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.
- A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
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