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Joey Diaz Biography

Birth Name:Jose Antonio Diaz

Birth Place:Havana, Cuba

Profession Actor, Writer, Producer, Soundtrack

Fast Facts

Best known for performing the character of Big Tony in the sports comedy “The Longest Yard” starring Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds and Chris Rock in 2005
He has a daughter from his first union and married Terrie Clark on November 25, 2009, with whom he also has a daughter
He performed the character of a gangster in the episode “Scarlet Ribbons” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2011
On top of being an actor in movies and on television, he is also a comic who presented comedy shows in the Colorado and Seattle areas before moving to Los Angeles in 1995