Michael Oher

Michael Oher, an American football offensive tackle, has a net worth $16 million. Oher's life story was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film "The Blind Side" which starred Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Quinton Aaron was the actor who played Michael Oher's character. Michael Oher was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 28th in 1986. Oher was the son of Denise Oher, who was an alcoholic and crack cocaine addict and father, Michael Jerome Williams, who was frequently in prison. He was not disciplined or received the attention he required because of his upbringing. He repeated both second and first grades, and attended 11 different schools in his initial nine years as a student. He was placed in foster care when he was seven, and then alternated between different foster homes as well as periods of being homeless. The father of Oher's birth was a cellmate of Denise Oher's brother and was murdered in prison at the time Oher was in senior high school. A young Michael Oher was finally taken in by Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy when he was 16, and the Tuohys became the legal guardians of Oher when he was 17. Oher was given an instructor who worked with the student for 20 hours per week.