Whose Celebrity Son Stars In HBO’s Ballers???

If you’ve watch the first season of Ballers starring the Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, did wonder Whose Celebrity Son Stars In HBO’s Ballers?

If you guessed John David Washington, who plays Ricky Jerret in the 10 episode season 1 of Ballers was Denzel Washington’s son then your up on it.

The Internet quickly realized that the hunky ‘Ballers’ star is the offspring of the Oscar-winning actor, and fans are dying to know more!

We decided to do some digging so fans of John David Washington can keep up on the former NFL player.

-Get this, John did play football before landing the role on Ballers. He played college football at Morehouse University, and in 2006, he was signed by the St. Louis Rams as a free agent. He later went on to play for the European Football League and the United Football League (UFL) until 2012.

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-Did you also know that he got his first big acting break at age nine in Malcolm X?

-John appeared as a student in a Harlem classroom in the 1992 Oscar-nominated film, Malcolm X. His dad, Denzel Washington starred as the title role in the film.

-John David Washington is 31, he was born on July 28, 1984 and he is a Leo. His parents are Pauletta, 64, and Denzel Washington, 60.

-John co-produced the 2010 movie, The Book of Eli alongside Denzel who also starred in the post-apocalyptic tale with Mila Kuniz.

John told Sports Illustrated about acting being his true passion:

“It was in my heart my whole life.”

“But every kid has their rebel kind of thing, so my rebel, I turned to football, ’cause I always loved it too, but this was my thing.” John will be starring in the upcoming film Coco, which revolves around a hip hop artist discovering slam poetry.”

Since Ballers started, recently John joined Instagram posting plenty of pics to drool over.

Here are just a few of the hot photos of Denzel’s piping hot son below: