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- Birth nameAntwone Quenton Fisher
- Antwone Fisher was born on August 3, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in Cleveland's foster care system and was emancipated from care at age 17 in the world alone and living on the tough streets of Cleveland, at age 18 Antwone joined the United States Navy where he traveled the world and was awarded many medals and ribbons including two good conduct medals. Antwone served honorably for 11 years and was discharged from service in 1989 at the rank of E5. A veteran United States Navy Sailor, Antwone was appointed to the honorary rank of Chief Petty Officer by the Master Chief Petty Officer of the United States Navy on October 5, 2009. He served three years as a Federal Correctional Officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons before taking a position as a security officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1992. The following year Antwone wrote and sold his autobiographical script titled "Antwone Fisher" to 20th Century Fox and it was made into a film by Fox Searchlight films in 2003. Antwone has been a working screenwriter in Hollywood for 23 years. Antwone Fisher is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Finding Fish: a memoir, (Harper Collins) The National Bestselling book of Poetry, Who Will Cry For The Little Boy?, (William Morrow) and the award winning self-improvement instructional book, A Boy Should Know How To Tie A Tie and Other Lessons for succeeding in life, (Touchstone Fireside).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Antwone Fisher
- SpouseLaNette Fisher(December 1, 1996 - present) (2 children)
- Was born in a women's prison, where his mother was incarcerated.
- In between rewriting the script for Antwone Fisher (2002); he also wrote "Double-0 Soul" with Chris Tucker attached to star and sold the script on spec for $1 million to Universal Pictures. Although the script had Brian Grazer/Imagine Entertainment on as producers and Mariah Carey attached as co-starring, it never came into fruition.
- Fisher was discovered working as a security guard at Sony. His life story of orphanages and abuse led to a screen-writing deal. Antwone Fisher (2002) (aka "Finding Fish") is autobiographical.
- His mother named him after Fats Domino, whose real first name is Antoine.
- Life often has a way of making people feel small and unimportant. But if you find a way to express yourself through writing, to put your ideas and stories on paper, you'll feel more consequential. No one should pass through time without writing their thoughts and experiences down for others to learn from. Even if only one person, a family member, reads something you wrote long after you're gone, you live on. So writing gives you power. Writing gives you immortality.
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