Duane and Tisha Campbell Martin: From TV & Movies to Opening a Restaurant

Not every married couple can work together, but Duane and Tisha Campbell Martin manage to balance family and career like pros. Since exchanging vows 16 years ago, the Martin’s have slowly been building an empire that they will pass on to their sons, Xen, 11, and Ezekial, 3. Because of the locale, are you garnering business from studios who want to use it for movies or TV shows? Tisha: We let Holly Robinson Peete who’s a longtime friend of ours use it for a show she’s shooting herself. Four years ago before the market crash, I held a seminar to educate a lot of athletes and entertainers to encourage them to go with a bank that is going to reinvest back into our communities and build barbershops and other businesses and not put it back in Beverly Hills to open another [posh] restaurant.