Actress Regina King’s ex-husband is Ian Alexander Sr. Regarding his personal life and family, not much is known. He got married to King in 1997, and the two of them have a son. They decided to split up in 2007. Alexander Sr. has kept a very quiet and out of the spotlight ever since. King claims that to be better parents to their son, she and Alexander Sr. had to work out a lot of difficulties between them in the early days following their divorce. Eventually, after a great deal of work, they were able to reach a consensus. Now in his 20s, Alexander Jr. aspires to pursue a career in acting like his mother did.
Early Life & Childhood
America is the country of Alexander Sr.’s birth. Information about his early life and family is scant to nonexistent.
Connection to Regina King
Regina King and Alexander Sr. first crossed paths in the 1990s. California native King made her acting debut in the NBC sitcom “227” in 1985, as Brenda Jenkins. King continued to play the part for the next six years, until the show’s conclusion in 1990. In the drama film “Boyz n the Hood,” which focused on a young hood, she made her feature debut in 1991. She collaborated with Chris Tucker and Ice Cube on the popular stoner comedy “Friday” in 1995. One year later, she co-starred with Martin Lawrence in “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” his film. In the 1996 sports romantic comedy “Jerry Maguire,” she also had the opportunity to collaborate with Tom Cruise. Rodney “Rod” Tidwell, played by Cuba Gooding Jr.’s wife Marcee Tidwell, was portrayed by King in the movie. Gooding Jr.’s performance earned him the 1996 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The movie was a critical and commercial triumph.
In 2002, King made a brief comeback to television as Cynthia in the NBC sitcom “Leap of Faith.” She provided the voices of Riley and Huey Freeman in the adult animated sitcom “The Boondocks” on Cartoon Network from 2005 until 2014. Later, she portrayed Detective Lydia Adams in the crime drama series “Southland” on Warner Bros. In the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” she also portrayed Janine Davis, the administrator of Human Resources (HRA) at Caltech, in a recurring role.
Daddy Day Care (2003), Enemy of the State (1998), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), A Cinderella Story (2004), Ray (2004), and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) are just a few of the big-screen movies in which she has starred. Her performances as Terri LaCroix and Aliyah Shadeed in the first and second seasons of ABC’s anthology series “American Crime” earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2015 and 2016 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. King will play an unidentified character in the 2019 television series “Watchmen.” Along with being a prolific TV director, she co-directed Shonda Rhimes’s drama “Scandal.”
Ian Alexander Jr. was born on January 21, 1996, the son of King and Alexander Sr. About a year later, they were married and moved to Los Angeles. Alexander Sr. and his spouse went to several events.
2007 saw the couple’s divorce. Rumor had it that Alexander Sr.’s adultery caused their breakup.
Accusations of drug use and physical assault were also made against him. King claimed that the first few months following the divorce were excruciating. She still felt enraged by the complicated nature of their divorce proceedings and was not looking forward to seeing him anywhere. But she did see him in the stands, supporting their son too, at one of their son’s basketball games. She came over to him after the game and they had a long conversation. It dawned on them both that raising their boy would require cooperation. King has said that it was also difficult for the next few months. They needed to figure out how to get their friendship back. Despite this, they carried on redefining their bond and sharing parental responsibilities for Alexander Jr. Like his mother, Alexander Jr., the spitting image of his father, works in the entertainment sector. In the 2016 television film “The Snowy Day,” he made his acting debut.
Alexander Sr. has decided to live a secluded, low-key existence after the divorce. Although King and actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner enjoyed a highly visible relationship from 2011 to 2013, not much is known about Alexander Sr.’s private life. Nevertheless, King did disclose that Alexander Sr. was seeing a “really cool woman” at the time in a 2015 interview with “The Chicago Tribune.”
The net worth of Ian Alexander Sr.
The estimated net worth of Ian Alexander Sr. is about $1 million.