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Chris Gardner is an American businessman, stockbroker, investor, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and author who briefly spent time homeless with his son in the early s.

His book of memoirs, The Pursuit of Happyness, was published in May The motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness (), portrayed by Will Smith is based on the book.

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He was the CEO of his own stockbrokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, which he founded in Born Christopher Paul Gardner on February 9, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, to Bettye Jean Gardner and Thomas Turner, he has one older half-sister, Ophelia, from his mother&#;s earlier marriage, and two younger half-sisters, Kimberly and Sharon, from Bettye&#;s third husband, Freddie Triplett.

He was married to Sherry Dyson, a Virginia native and an educational expert in mathematics, on June 18, They divorced in Gardner has two children: son Christopher Jarret and daughter Jacintha Darlene. Both were born with his longtime girlfriend Jackie Medina.