Donald Faison
Donald Faison Trivia
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Britney Murphy first worked with Donald Faison (Mury) on Clueless. The 2nd time they worked together was in Uptown Girls.
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Donald is right-handed.
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Donald attended the Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz wedding in Los Angeles with his girlfriend CaCee Cobb.
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Donald's favorite Scrubs episode to film was "My Musical", this was the musical episode in season 6.
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Donald loves playing video games.
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Donald interned at the show Robot Chicken during the Writer's Strike in 2007-2008.
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Donald supported Senator Barack Obama in the US Presidential Election 2008.
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Donald used a dialect coach to help him play the role of an Italian in the movie It's Under My Skin.
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Donald considers himself to be very sensitive.
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According to Donald, his best feature are his lips.
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Donald's celebrity crush is actress Sanaa Lathan.
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The most romantic thing that Donald has done for a woman on Valentine's Day is write a song about her.
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Donald married Lisa Askey on 27th February 2001. They filed for divorce in 2006.
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Donald appeared on Sesame Street in 1993.
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Donald is a huge basketball fan and is a very good basketball player.
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Donald appeared on the cover page of the TV Guide magazine dated 9th October 2005.
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Faison is a former member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet. Members of the cabinet help out using their talents and resources in furthering the cause of the organization.
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Donald has a Superman tattoo on his right arm. He got it when he was 18 years old.
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Donald's experience as an actor on Scrubs has made him want to produce and direct on television. He admits that he has learned so much on filmmaking and television-making through the show.
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Donald attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in New York, New York.
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When Donald was six years of age, he wrote and acted in a play named When The Lion Roars.
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Donald has received the BET Comedy Award twice, in year 2004 and 2005, for his performance in Scrubs. He was also nominated for Teen Choice Award's "Choice TV Sidekick" for playing Turk on the show from 2004-2007.
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In 2002, Donald appeared in a print ad for America's Milk Processors "got milk?" campaign.
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Donald has appeared in the following music videos: "Sittin' Up in my Room" for Brandy, "Chariot" for Gavin DeGraw, "3:00 AM" for Matchbox 20.
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Donald was one of three actors to play in both the Clueless movie and in the series. The other two were Elisa Donovan, who played Amber, and Stacey Dash, who played Dee.
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Donald's Scrubs co-stars refer to him as "that guy from Clueless". Similarly, cast-mate Sarah Chalke is called "Becky Number Two", in reference to her role on Roseanne.
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He has worked as a lifeguard.
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Donald's nickname is Shun.
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Donald gave his used napkin to Improv Everywhere during one of their missions which involved them selling used celebrity trash in Times Square.
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He played in the 2007 NBA Celebrity All Star Game. He started on the East team but was then traded to the West team with Jamie Kennedy.
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Donald's best friend in real life is Scrubs co-star and on-screen best friend Zach Braff. After they finished the first season of Scrubs, they became roommates for a summer in New York. Zach was performing in a play then while he was doing a movie.
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He is a big Star Wars fan. As a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he admitted to viewing Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 350 times.
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He is a big fan of his hometown NBA team New York Knicks.
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Uptown Girls is the second movie he has been a supporting character with Brittany Murphy, the first film being Clueless in 1995.
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He dated actress Minka Kelly (from Friday Night Lights) after his marriage ended.
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Donald recently started to grow his hair out , in the 6th season of Scrubs, for the first time in the show's run.
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Faison has four children: his eldest son (Sean) with childhood friend Audrey Ince, and three others (Kobe and twins Dade and Kaya) with Lisa Askey, whom he married in 2001.
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Donald has been dating Cacee Cobb (Jessica Simpson's best friend) since February 2007.
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While starring in Scrubs, Donald appeared in 7 of NBC's public service announcements, The More You Know. His topics were anti-prejudice, self-esteem, the environment, v-chip, parental involvement in school, talking with your kids, and reading.
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Donald was one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive, 2006. He is found in the "Bald and Beautiful" section.
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Donald helped Ashton Kutcher to Punk his Scrubs castmate Zach Braff. A gang of kids led by Punk'd star Ryan Pinkston vandalized Zach's precious Porsche with fake spray paint after they refused to buy the kids beer. Donald was also the producer of the episode.
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Donald has appeared in TV commercials for Pepsi Edge and Folger's Coffee. His first commercial was a spot for Oatmeal Raisin Crisp cereal.
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He is 6' (1.83 m) tall.
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Donald is the oldest of the three Faison boys, who include Dade and Olamide Faison. Olamide is a singer from the R&B group Imagin.
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Donald participates in MTV's Rock n Jock Basketball.
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Donald: (When asked about if there was any similarity between him and his character Turk on "Scrubs") There is no similarity between me and Turk, absolutely not.
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Donald: Zach and I are both very lucky. I think our bromance is probably one of the strongest in Hollywood. At least I can say ours is real.
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Donald: (on playing a romantic lead or villain) As long as it's a good role and I can get into the script. I don't want to play a bad guy in some really (awful) movie. I don't want to be the romantic lead in some poo poo.
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Donald: I don't think there's a problem with dating somebody outside of your race, as long as you're doing it because you want to be with that person. Everybody tells you what you should do when you're dating, but if you follow your heart, it usually works out.
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Donald: (on his favorite nickname for his character Turk in "Scrubs") They're all pretty funny. Brownest of Bears is hilarious. Mocha Bear, Chocolate Bear, Brown Bear, Brownest of Browns. [Laughs] Those are all funny names for another grown man to call you.
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Donald: (on knowing "Scrubs" is on its final season; in an October 2007 interview) I'm more excited that I completed a journey, completed a story. We got to go out on our own terms, and not a lot of shows can say that.
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Donald: I am doing my best to get a hold of some of that Zach Braff money. I hope everybody on this planet gets a hold of some of that Zach Braff money.
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Donald: (on trading his career with the body and physical skills of NBA player LeBron James) Yeah, because as handsome as I am, I'd be the highest-grossing athlete ever in the NBA if I had that man's skills. Me?! With that freakin' dominance?! In the league?!
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Donald: (on the first time he went naked on "Scrubs") It was awesome, because nobody had seen how nice of an ass I had. So when I finally took the robe off, I got a lot of nice screams from the ladies...and some men.
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Donald: (on acting between serious and silly in "Scrubs") That's how life is, you know - when you're feeling your best, someone snatches the rug out from under you. That's how I look at this show. You experience it so much in real life that it's not hard to act out.
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Donald: My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.
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Donald: I don't know why, I always play a woman when I play videogames.
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Donald: Star Wars was one of the first movies that ever made me want to be an actor. Hanging with Wookies, getting to fight it out with Jabba... That's some crazy stuff. At one point, I used to dream about being Han Solo.
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