Michael Kearney (born 1984) is an American game show winner and child prodigy. He is known for setting several world records related to graduating at a young age and his high earnings on television game shows.
Kearney was working at an improv theater group in Nashville, Tennessee, .
Education and early life
Kearney was born in Honolulu Hawaii, to Kevin, an Officer and Cassidy Kearney, a teacher He has a younger sister, Maeghan. Kearney was born two months prematurely because his mother had developed toxemia from anorexia nervosa and he had stopped growing in utero. At age 3, he took apart the family television to see how it worked, but was unable to reassemble it. His parents declined to medicate him with his prescribed Ritalin.
College education
The following year, his parents argued to the California Community Colleges chancellor's office
Kearney's parents then relocated the family to Mobile, Alabama, where Kearney was accepted as a transfer student to the University of South Alabama. , Kearney remained the youngest person to have been awarded a high school diploma and an undergraduate degree.
After moving with his family to Hollywood, Los Angeles, to pursue a childhood career as a game show host, Kearney then applied to the University of Southern California to pursue postgraduate education in anthropology.
Entertainment career
In the mid-1990s, while seeking a childhood career as a game show host,
In October 2006, Kearney became a finalist on the trivia-and-puzzle game Gold Rush, winning . He won . In 2017, the theatre was a finalist for The Tennesseans Toast readers' choice for best comedy club. , he was still there.