Biography of Tony Hawk[Age, Height, Wife, Kids, Family, Salary, Award & Net worth ]

Even if you are moderately aware of the professional skateboarding sport, Tony Hawk is a figure with whom you’re most likely familiar. He is the most influential figure in the skateboard world despite it being a dark horse sport.

“I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large,” stated skateboarder.

Illustrating the willingness and determination one should possess to survive and make it in this skeptic world.

The prior statement reflects the principle Hawk has adopted in his life to achieve his dream of being the best at Skateboarding.

Not to mention, Hawk is one of the largest skateboarders in the world in terms of both fame and fortune.

Since its inception as a professional sport, the longevity and devotion to the sport have aided Tony in becoming the unrivaled king in the skateboarding community.

Tony is famous for his electrifying and breathtaking stunts and charisma. Stale Dish, Madonna, 720, Ollie 540, and Kick foot Mctwist are among his popular tracks.

Here, let’s learn few more things about Tony Hawk. Below-mentioned is the quick facts, a must to take a glance at.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anthony Frank Hawk
Nickname	Grampa, Tony, The Birdman
Date of birth	May 12th, 1968
Age	54 years old
Birthplace	San Diego, California
Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Caucasian
Education	Torrey Pines High School
Father	Frank Peter Rupert Hawk
Mother	Nancy Hawk
Height	6’3″/1.91 m
Weight	78 kg/171 lb
Website	Tonyhawk.com
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Blue
Shoe size	13
Profession	Skateboarder/ Entrepreneur
Debut year	1982
Marital Status	Married (2015)
Wife	Cathy Goodman
Ex-Wife	Cindy Dunbar (1990-1993), Erin Lee (1996-2004), Lhotse Merriam (2006-2011)
Children	Riley Hawk, Spencer Hawk and Keegan Hawk (son), Kadence Clover Hawk (daughter)
Net Worth	$140 million
Salary	Unavailable on the internet
Foundation	Tony Hawk Foundation (The Skatepark Project)
Social Media	Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok
Merch	Pro Skater(PS4), Skateboard, Bike, Tony Hawk Signature Line
Last Update	August, 2022

Early Life & Family

Anthony Frank ‘Tony’ Hawk is an American Skateboarder, Entrepreneur, and Owner of Birdhouse, a skateboard company.  On March 12^th, 1968, he was born to Frank Peter Rupert Hawk and Nancy Hawk.

Though Tony has traveled worldwide, he resides in San Diego, where he was born and raised.

Tony grew up with three siblings. He was the youngest kid in the family, with two older sisters and an older brother.

Similarly, his brother Steve Hawk, former editor of the surfer’s magazine, was, in fact, the one who gifted Tony his first-ever skateboard, which he kept for a long time before donating it to the Smithsonian.

Education

Hawk attended Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, California. Although his priority clearly lay towards skateboarding, he was a talented student nonetheless.

Thanks to the fact that he was tremendous in school, the Birdman only had to attain four classes during his senior year.

As a result, Hawk would finish his classes before recess and pass the remaining time of his days on a skateboard.

Age and Body Measurements

As of March of 2022, Tony Hawk is 54 years old as he was born on 12^th May 1968. The former athlete still skates four times a day as part of his exercise.

Looking at his appearance, Tony is a tall but fit guy. Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall, Tony weighs about 78 kg in kilogram and 171 lbs in pounds which is still impressive for someone his age.

Professional Career

Tony Hawk is nicknamed Birdman after his surname and his abilities to perform aerial tricks seamlessly.

Besides being a professional skateboarder and a businessman, he has also appeared in different movies, other media, and video game series.

Likewise, he is also part of the first generation of professional skateboarders, and despite that, Hawk still is the biggest Pro Skateboarder in the world.

Through his Tony Hawk Foundation aka The Skatepark Project, he has been involved in different philanthropic activities that provide contributions and technical aid to build new skate parks, especially in underprivileged and low-income areas.

In June 2018, his foundation received US$5.8 million assisting 596 skatepark projects and in 2015, they received the Robert Wood Johnson Sports award.

His mother described him as “high-strung” even as a child and stated that he would be “hard on himself and always wanted to do so many different things.”

Similarly, Hawk began skateboarding at the crisp age of 9, and adding to this, his parents were very supportive of his new hobby, which later transformed his life.

Young Tony began entering competitions at the age of 11 and experimented with different daredevil stunts with his crazy and unique creativity.

Tony was a “gifted” child and tested with an intelligent quotient of 144, which could’ve helped him turn into a professional skateboarder at age 14 and developed various skateboarding skills.

Moreover, Athletes for Hope is yet another organization founded in 2007 by him and multiple other athletes to inspire the world with their professional athlete actions.

Gifted Child and Famous 900 Trick

In his early days, Tony was involved in freelance video editing since his hobby wasn’t paying the bills.

During those days, corporate sponsorship was looked upon negatively, but he got them despite the fact to stabilize his income source.

During his 20s, there wasn’t as much money involved in skateboarding unless you participated in a tournament. Still, Tony loves the fact that a local pro can earn a steady living nowadays.

Nonetheless, he was signed by the professional skateboarding team Powell Peralta and starred in the famous Bones Brigade videos at an early age.

Tony has participated in countless tournaments and X games. For 12 consecutive years, he was officially the National Skateboard Association world champion. Despite this, he is most proud of the fact that he did a 900 at the age of 43.

Life as a Skateboarder

Tony mentioned in an interview, during the early 90s, skateboarding wasn’t considered as hip as it is today, and he wasn’t considered cool among the skateboarding community, as he is primarily a ramp skater.

But Tony, aka the Granpa, is a transition skater because he is an expert in ramps with radius. He developed this expertise as a kid when there was a deficit of skate parks, and he had to skate around in a dried-up swimming pool in his neighborhood.

Because Tony is a professional athlete of an extreme sport, he has had many death-defying stunts. He has successfully jumped between two seven-storied buildings for a project with MTV.

Tony has had countless minor injuries in his career but only 3/4 significant concussions. Due to the nature of the sport, he has chipped his teeth innumerable times and has few fake teeth.

Due to his love for this sport, Tony Hawk has rallied behind the idea of including Skateboarding as an Olympic sport. He attended some initial meetings with ISC but did not get involved in the politics of it.

Due to this, there is the likelihood of skateboarding being included as a game in the upcoming Olympics.

Entrepreneurship

According to his interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Tony launched Birdhouse in 1992 after realizing that his career as a pro skater was near its end.

Instead, it helped him start a new chapter in his career as a pro skater, which in hindsight is the reason he is the undisputed king of the skateboard.

Tony also launched a video game series, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, in 1999.

Along with its updates and upgrades and new versions, the game has sold more than a million copies worldwide.

In an interview with Vogue, the professional skater mentioned he launched his videogame series as he wouldn’t have to depend upon the tournament prizes for his income.

Acting

Due to the rise in his popularity and connections, he made along his way to the top of his game.

Tony has had a chance to feature and cameo in various Hollywood movies such as Lords of Dogtown, Sharknado 5, Parental Guidance, and TV shows such as The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, CSI: Miami, and The Simpsons.

More TV series coming on the way,  Breaking In, The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, The Cleveland Show, Sesame Street. He was also an active member n the 2020 third season of the U.S. version of The Masked Singer.

However, Tony got eliminated after one week as the Elephant,

RIDE Channel

In January 2012, Tony launched the Youtube channel “Ride Channel” where he would conduct twenty-two different shows with some of the best people in the skate industry.

A show called, ” Hand in Hand was rolled and it featured people who are musicians and artists and people who have been inspired by skating.

In a show called, “Tony’s Strange life”, he has interviewed different personalities, not just people who belong to the skateboarding field.

Emojis

According to New York magazine in 2018, Hawk was gathered with Jeremy Burge to plan over the design of Emokipedia’s skateboard Emoji.

Prior to the assemble, Tony Hawk criticized the initial design of the company saying that it was a skateboard you would buy at a department store in the ’80s.

Later they invented the design based on Hawk’s own skateboard which had 60mm wheels.

Amusement park rides

There is series of amusement park rides called Tony Hawk’s Big Spin, built-in three Six Flags parks in 2007 and 2008. The ride was actually promoted as the “Tony Hawk Experience”.

As the name itself suggests, we can imagine what kind of adrenaline it must have given, the feel of full adventure.  Six Flags canceled its license and the rides were renamed Pandemonium in 2010.

Subsequently, the ride at  Six Flags Discovery Kingdom was moved to Six Flags Mexico in 2012 to make places for a new ride called Superman: Ultimate Flight.  Also, a water park ride called Tony Hawk’s Halfpipe was launched in Bowie, Maryland at Six Flags America.

Hawk also launched a show tour featuring freestyle motocross, skateboarding, and BMX in 2002. It was initiated in Las vegas first and went on to 31 cities around the U.S.

Life & Three Failed Marriages

Tony Hawk was married to Cindy Dunbar, his high school girlfriend, in April of 1990. A year after their son’s birth, Riley Hawk, on the 6^th of December 1992, Hawk and Dunbar got divorced in 1993.

Then Hawk married his second wife Erin Lee in 1996. After eight years of marriage and two sons with Erin, Spencer Hawk, and Keegan Hawk, they decided to part their ways and get divorced in 2004.

As of now, Tony hawk has three sons and a daughter. His daughter Kadence Clover Hawk was born in 2008, two years into his marriage with Kadence’s mother, Lhotse Merriam, in 2006.

His third and final marriage lasted for five years until their divorce in 2011. Finally, on June 27, 2015, the skater married his fourth wife, Cathy Goodman.

Their wedding ceremony was held in Limerick, Ireland. Cathy has two children from her previous relationship.

Net Worth

The man with many talents, Tony Hawk’s net worth is estimated to be $140 million as of march of 2021.

Birdman has gathered a fortune of this size throughout his 39-year career through his various projects.

His grand house in San Diego and his car collection, including his Tesla Model S, with a value of around $75 thousand, indicate where he spends his fortune.

Moreover, the success of his skateboard company, Birdhouse, has massively contributed to his prosperity.

With 64 gold medals, with 8 of them from the games, his talent and victories among several such tournaments have helped him shape up a large chunk of that $140 million.

Along with it, the sales of his video game series containing ten main installments have undoubtedly subsidized an enormous amount of that net worth.

His features and cameos in famous Hollywood movies and TV series are also factors that have aided him in assembling such a large sum.

Along with his experiences in life, Hawk wishes to teach his kids about perseverance and belief in oneself, and he believes in creating your path in life.

Not to mention, Tony Hawk bought his first house of his own at the age of seventeen.

Latest Update- Is Tony Hawk in the Olympics?

Skateboarding has made its most awaited debut in the Olympic world on July 25, 2021, with men’s street, heats kicking off the sport’s four-day competition at Ariake Urban Sports Park under the blazing heat of Tokyo.

Most eyes were on Nyjah Huston of the United States and hometown favorite Yuto Horigome, who will be competing on a concrete course that requires some efficient technical skills.

For Tony Hawk, a legend at skateboarding, the inclusion of the sports into the Olympics is too behind the time.

Tony Hawk, who now is a TV commentator, tried out the new waterfront bowl in Ariake this week was surprised to see the International Olympic Committee adding skateboarding to its frame.

“As a kid that was mostly lambasted for my interest in skateboarding, I never imagined it would be part of the Olympic Games. It’s surreal to now be in Tokyo bearing witness to this milestone in the most unprecedented circumstances” Tony Stated.

“I know in the end it will help to grow skateboarding’s profile internationally, exposing our passion to a mass of people that has never seen it before or simply refused to embrace it,” Tony added.

Tony is not competing for the event but yes, he did make an appearance at the inaugural Olympic skateboarding event as The Faction’s “Skate and Destroy”.

Moreover, Tony shared clips and pictures of his run on Instagram, showing how professionals make their way.

Social Media

Instagram: 6.5 million Followers 

Facebook: 6.2 million Followers 

Twitter: 4.5 million Followers 

Tiktok: 1.7million Followers

FAQs

Can Tony Hawk still skate?

Though Tony retired back in 2003, you bet the former skateboarder can still skate.

Why was Tony Hawk so famous?

As one of the famous skateboarders, Tony Hawk is also skilled. He is the first to land a 900 trick, among many other things.

Who is the wealthiest skateboarder?

With a hefty net worth of $140 million, Hawk is the richest skateboarder in the world.

What is Tony Hawk’s worst injury?

His worst injury was a broken pelvis in November 2003 after a stunt for MTV’s Wildboyz.