Michael Blackson is an American-Ghanaian-Liberian actor and comedian based in the United States.
Michael Blackson was born in Liberia to a Ghanaian father and Liberian mother. He spent his young years in between Monrovia and Ghana before relocating to the United States in the mid-1980s. His father died in 2008. Michael lived in Newark, New Jersey when he was 13, and then settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was 15. He began pursuing comedy after his coworker at Domino’s suggested he start open mic.