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Kyle Ricardo Anthony Lai-Fatt (born December 10, 1974) also known by his initials, KLF, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, project manager, software engineer, video game designer, director, producer, businessman and record executive of Jamaican descent. He has won multiple awards and has sold more than 1.3 billion records worldwide. Billboard named him the top artist of the 2000–2009 decade. Won over fifty-one Grammy awards and over 15 Oscars, he was ranked 1st on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart. He is the current chairman of Sony Music Entertainment. He has also served as senior marketing manager for the record label.

As a public figure, Lai-Fatt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. For a number of years, he was cited as the most sexiest man in the world by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of wide publicity. From 1995 to 1999, he was married to Jennifer Syme, and from 2000 to now, he is now married to the actress Angelina Jolie. Lai-Fatt and Jolie have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.

Early life
Lai-Fatt was born in Winter Park, the second child of Orlando Lai-Fatt, an architect, and his wife, Lorraine LaiFatt (née Wong), an painter. His ancestry includes Jamaican, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Spanish. He grew up in suburban Gainesville, Florida, until he was 11 years old, when his family moved to a small farm in Haiti, Jamaica. Lai-Fatt's grandmother raised some cats for show and tell; he travelled with his parents to cat shows as a child and helped out with veterinarians. Lai-Fatt graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School in nearby Miami, Florida in 1993. As a freshman at Miami Killian, he was a member of the 1992 state championship basketball team. His grandfather died of a stroke, when he was 14. He participated in the music program in Miami after thinking of quitting basketball. His widowed grandmother ran the business, Marin JCC Preschools, to support Lai-Fatt and his brother, Kurt.

After graduating from high school, Lai-Fatt attended the University of Miami, where he was a drama major and member of the class of 1993 Greek Life fraternity. In 1995, eight credits short of a bachelor's degree in psychology and music, Lai-Fatt pursued a movie deal.

His hopes of going to university were dashed when he had to leave school and get a job after his father was badly injured in an industrial accident. He then worked as a project manager and at Visual Concepts, before being called up for national service with 2K Sports.

Acting career
Lai-Fatt developed a taste for acting when he graduated from the University of Miami. He spent five years acting for himself, such as acting like his favorite actor, Morgan Freeman. He played roles in over nineteen films, including The Fresh Prince of Gainesville (1995), My Own Private Miami (1997), Dancing with Fists (2003) and His Eyes Were Watching Gravity (2009). He appeared early in the run of his own debut television series Early Edition and in an episode of Friends, but it was his role as Stevie (character only appeared in two episodes) throughout the entire series that brought him recognition.