Dwayne Johnson is very proud of his family's Samoan heritage - it's the reason half of his body is covered in tribal tattoos. He's also closely connected to Hawaii, where he grew up. That's not where the story of Hollywood's top-earning leading man began, though - for the first two years of his life, he lived in the Bay Area of California. By his own admission, he's moved around a lot during his life, and has also spent time in Miami, Florida.
The Rock, as most people know, grew up as a member of a family of professional wrestlers. Both his father and grandfather wrestled for the WWE, and so Johnson was following in the family tradition when he joined the company in the mid-1990s. With his electric charisma, he became one of the biggest stars in the sport, and a multi-time world champion. It didn't take long for the movie business to come calling, and now all of Hollywood can indeed smell what the Rock is cooking.