Background
Michael Roof was born at a United States. Air Force hospital at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, November 24, 1976 to Jean and Michael Roof, Senior Michael had two brothers, Derek and Donny. And two sisters, Megan and Kim.
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Michael Roof
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Michael attended Reese Air Force Base Elementary, Lubbock, Texas.
Career
Then Frenship Intermediate and Frenship Junior. High, in Wolfforth, Texas, just outside Lubbock. While in eighth grade the Roof family moved to Yokota Air Base, Japan.
Roof toured American comedy clubs with a stage name of "Chicken." He was especially popular in college town comedy clubs such as Deja Vu in Columbia Missouri.
In 2000, he had a central part in the World Bank Network sketch comedy television series Hype, but it was canceled after its first season. After Hype, Roof moved to Hollywood, California to pursue a film career.
He landed a number of film roles in big-budget Hollywood productions. Some of these roles include Private Mike Maddox of the United States. Army Rangers in Black Hawk Down, Dil Driscoll in The Dukes of Hazzard, and National Security Agency Agent Toby Lee Shavers in xXx and its sequel xXx: State of the Union.
In 2006, Roof was given his own Spike Channel reality television show, Raising the Roofs.
In the early morning of June 9, Roof"s wife contacted police, and reported him missing. Several hours later, his body was found hung from a tree in a wooded area near a Snellville, Georgia, elementary school parking lot. Roof reportedly suffered from bipolar disorder, and had been despondent about family finances.
He is buried in Dunnellon Memorial Gardens, Dunnellon, Florida.
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