Michael A. Jordan and Donna Jordan have close relationships with their movie star son, Michael B. Jordan

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At the time, the Creed star also said that the women in his family, including his mom, would be thrilled at him receiving the Sexiest Man Alive honor in particular. “When my grandmother was alive, it was something that she collected, and then my mom naturally reads it a lot and my aunts as well,” he said. “This is one that they’re definitely going to have a special place for.”

Michael A. and Donna didn’t have Hollywood jobs

According to Vanity Fair, Michael A. worked as a supervisor at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York, and went on to start a catering business. Donna, meanwhile, worked as a guidance counselor at Michael B.’s middle school, as well as a teacher at his high school.

The family has ties to New Jersey and CaliforniaMichael B. Jordan and his mother Donna and grandmother.

“Family is everything,” Donna told Vanity Fair. “You protect your family, you make sure that everyone is taken care of, you know? That structure was passed down from my grandmother and grandfather. Together, they were unbelievable. Very political, always working for politics, working in the community, making sure everyone had what they needed.”

Donna got her son into acting

“I was just at the time thinking about college tuition and that sort of thing,” she told Vanity Fair. “Little did I know that it was going to be job, after job, after job, after job.”

Similarly, the Fruitvale Station star told HuffPost: “My mom got me started on lots of things and it just snowballed. … I just started booking at a really young age; little small modeling jobs, to extra work, to background, to little commercials. And then I booked [Cosby] and The Sopranos and just kept going. I fell in love with it when I was probably around 14. It was the first time I really lost myself in a character and I was like, ‘Wow what is that feeling? Is that what acting is?’ ”

In 2015, Michael B. purchased a house for his parents — something he said was a dream come true. “Look, it’s every kid’s dream, to buy their mom and dad a house,” he told The Times in 2018. The Sherman Oaks, California, home cost about $1.7 million.

The house was featured in Michael B.’s “73 Questions” video for Vogue in 2017. Donna was shown baking his “grandmother’s famous rum cakes,” while Michael A. did some grilling in the backyard.

He lived with them even after he became successful

“I love my parents, but we have a roommate relationship right now, which is interesting,” he shared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018. “You get home-cooked meals, but then you also have those random trips to the kitchen in the middle of the night, and just the random run-ins that just might be a little uncomfortable from time to time.” Asked if the run-ins were awkward because he was nɑƙeɗ, Michael B. joked, “Sometimes shirtless. Maybe a little nɑƙeɗ.”

Two years later, in another appearance on Ellen, Michael B. shared that he had moved out of the house he bought for them and into his own place about 20 minutes away. “I’m pretty sure they saged the entire house when I left. They lit incense and bleached it down and got rid of all of me,” he joked.

Donna recalled choosing her son’s name in a 2005 interview with The Star-Ledger. “After 89 hours of labor, I told my husband, ‘I don’t care what you call him,’ ” she said.

The family starred in a fashion campaign together

Michael B. and his mom collaborated on a special cupcake

“A portion of the proceeds are going to [the nonprofit] Lupus L.A.,” Michael B. said during an interview on The Tonight Show. “My mom suffers from lupus, so this is kind of like my way to give back to the lupus community, and my mom’s way, also.”

He took his mom to the Oscars

In 2019, the Wire star took his mom as his date to the Academy Awards. At that year’s show, he presented the award for Best Original Score alongside his Creed costar Tessa Thompson.