Biography of Nick Cannon, Facts, Real Name, Net-worth, Family, Career, Children

<p class&equals;"last-updated">Last updated on June 24th&comma; 2025 at 06&colon;08 am<&sol;p><div class&equals;"wp-block-image">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;igettalk&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;02&sol;cannon-baby-1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Biography of Nick Cannon&comma; Facts&comma; Real Name&comma; Age&comma; Networth&comma; Songs" class&equals;"wp-image-13199"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Nicholas Scott Cannon&comma; better known as Nick Cannon&comma; is an American rapper&comma; actor&comma; comedian&comma; record producer&comma; and entrepreneur&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He is also a radio and television host&excl; He is famous for being the host of the hit reality show &OpenCurlyQuote;America’s Got Talent’ and also for hosting &OpenCurlyQuote;The Nick Cannon Show&period;’ After starting his acting career as a teenager on the TV show &OpenCurlyQuote;All That&comma;’ Cannon went on to appear in several TV shows and has even acted in a handful of films&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As a rapper&comma; he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the single &&num;8220&semi;Gigolo&&num;8221&semi;&comma; a collaboration with singer R&period; Kelly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In 2007&comma; he played the role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film Goal II&colon; Living the Dream&period; In 2006&comma; Cannon recorded the singles &&num;8220&semi;Dime Piece&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;My Wife&&num;8221&semi; for the planned album Stages&comma; which was never released&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Full Name&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;em> Nicholas Scott Cannon<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Date of Birth&colon;<&sol;strong> October 8&comma; 1980 <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Age&colon;<&sol;strong> 41<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Place Of Birth&colon;<&sol;strong> San Diego&comma; California&comma; U&period;S&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Networth&colon;<&sol;strong> &dollar;30 Million<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Background&colon;<&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Nicholas Scott Cannon was born on October 8&comma; 1980&comma; in San Diego&comma; California&comma; to parents James Cannon&comma; a televangelist&comma; and Beth Hackett&comma; an accountant&period; His parents separated when he was young&comma; so he grew up shuttling between California and North Carolina&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At the age of 8&comma; Nick Cannon got the performance bug after his grandfather gave him several musical instruments&period; Soon after&comma; he switched from music to stand-up comedy when he was invited to perform on his father&&num;8217&semi;s public access show&period; It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t long before a teenage Cannon was working in well-known comedy clubs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong> Career&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Cannon released a self-titled album in 2003&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s also collaborated with other big names on various music projects&comma; including Kanye West&comma; P&period; Diddy&comma; Mary J&period; Blige&comma; and R&period; Kelly&period; Because of his strong musical ties&comma; he was a natural host of the nationally syndicated radio show Cannon&&num;8217&semi;s Countdown&period; After the show&&num;8217&semi;s premiere in 2011&comma; Cannon decided to leave the Top 40 countdown two years down the line&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Since 2011&comma; Cannon has released a pair of mixtapes&comma; as well as his second studio album&comma; White People Party Music &lpar;2014&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Nick Cannon created&comma; hosted&comma; and produced the MTV comedy series &OpenCurlyQuote;Wild &&num;8216&semi;N Out’ in 2005&period; The same year&comma; he hosted Nickelodeon&&num;8217&semi;s 2005 &OpenCurlyQuote;Kids&&num;8217&semi; Choice Awards&period;’ After this&comma; he served as the DJ on the &OpenCurlyQuote;Bigger&comma; Longer&comma; and Wider’ show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In 2009&comma; he hosted Nickelodeon’s &OpenCurlyQuote;HALO Awards&period;’ That year&comma; he was also signed as the host for &OpenCurlyQuote;America&&num;8217&semi;s Got Talent’ and served in that position till 2016&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; in 2011&comma; he hosted the popular eating competition &OpenCurlyQuote;Nathan&&num;8217&semi;s Hot Dog Eating Contest&period;’ In early 2012&comma; Cannon created the comedy television series &OpenCurlyQuote;Incredible Crew&period;’ During that time&comma; he also started appearing in a music video television series named &OpenCurlyQuote;TeenNick Top 10&period;’<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In 2019&comma; it was announced that Cannon would be debuting his own syndicated daytime talk show in 2020 via Lionsgate&&num;8217&semi;s Debmar-Mercury and Cannon&&num;8217&semi;s own production company&comma; NCredible Entertainment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Personal Life&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Cannon has been married once&comma; to Maria Carey&comma; from 2008 to 2016&comma; and their relationship bore two children &&num;8211&semi; twins&period; As of June 2025&comma; he has a total of 12 children from 5 different women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In 2006&comma; Cannon was in a relationship with Kim Kardashian&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Cannon married singer-songwriter Mariah Carey on April 30&comma; 2008&comma; at her private estate on Windermere Island in the Bahamas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p> On April 30&comma; 2011&comma; Carey gave birth to fraternal twins&colon; daughter Monroe and son Moroccan Scott&period; After six years of marriage&comma; the pair separated and filed for divorce in 2014&comma; but reunited briefly in 2015&period; Their divorce was finalized in 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Cannon has two children with model Brittany Bell&colon; a son&comma; Golden&comma; born February 2017&comma; and a daughter&comma; Powerful Queen&comma; born December 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In June 2021&comma; his twin sons&comma; Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir&comma; with DJ Abby De La Rosa&comma; were born&period; Later that month&comma; on June 23&comma; his seventh child&comma; a son&comma; Zen&comma; with model Alyssa Scott&comma; was born&period; Zen died of brain cancer at five months old&comma; on December 5&comma; 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In January 2022&comma; Cannon announced he is expecting a baby boy with model Bre Tiesi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Films&colon;<&sol;strong> Nick Cannon has starred in various films&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list">&NewLine;<li>2000 Whatever It Takes Chess Club Kid<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2002 Men in Black II MIB Autopsy Agent Alternative titles&colon; MIB 2&comma; MIIB<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Drumline Devon Miles<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2003 Love Don&&num;8217&semi;t Cost a Thing Alvin Johnson Alternative title&colon; Love Don&&num;8217&semi;t Co&dollar;t a Thing<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2004 Garfield&colon; The Movie&comma; Louis&&num;8217&semi; Voice role<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Shall We Dance&quest; Scott<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2005 Underclassman Tracy &&num;8220&semi;Tre&&num;8221&semi; Stokes&period; Also writer&comma; executive producer<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Roll Bounce Bernard<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2006 Even Money Godfrey Snow<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>The Adventures of Brer Rabbit&colon; Brer Rabbit Voice<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Monster House Officer Lester&&num;8217&semi;s Voice role<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Bobby Dwayne<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2007 Weapons Reggie<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Goal II&colon; Living the Dream&comma; TJ Harper<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2008 American Son Mike<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Day of the Dead Salazar Direct-to-DVD film<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>Ball Don&&num;8217&semi;t Lie Mico<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2009 The Killing Room Paul Brody<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2010 School Gyrls Lunch Lady Director<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2011 Mash Up<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2014 Drumline&colon; A New Beat Devon Miles Also executive producer<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>School Dance Super Sizer&sol;Himself&period; Also director&comma; co-writer&comma; producer<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2015 Chi-Raq Chi-raq<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2016 King of the Dancehall Tarzan Brixton&period; Also director<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2017 Nick Cannon&colon; The Vlad Couch Himself<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>2019 Berserk Raffy Rivers<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Awards&colon;<&sol;strong> 2006 Hollywood Film Festival Ensemble of the Year Bobby &lpar;Shared with cast&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>2012 Won NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor Up All Night<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list">&NewLine;<li>Kids&&num;8217&semi; Choice Award for Favorite Male TV Star &&num;8211&semi; 2002<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series &&num;8211&semi; 2012<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li>MTV Movie &amp&semi; TV Award for Best Host &&num;8211&semi; 2019<&sol;li>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<li><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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