Personal Life
Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer, and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions (a film/television production company). He has a brother, Viktor. His paternal great-grandparents were oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer and Russian-born actress Olga Von Root. His paternal great-great-grandfather, Julius Hammer, who had emigrated from Odessa, Russian Empire, "founded the Communist Party in New York". His mother's family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hammer has described his background as "half Jewish".
Hammer lived in the prominent Dallas enclave of Highland Park for several years. When he was seven, his family moved to the Cayman Islands, where they lived for five years, and then settled back in Los Angeles. He attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour, Grace Christian Academy in the Cayman Islands (a school founded by his father), and later went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley. He dropped out of high school in eleventh grade, to pursue an acting career, and subsequently took college courses (at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California and University of California, Los Angeles extension). Hammer has stated that "for all intents and purposes", his parents disowned him when he dropped out of high school and began acting.
In 2010, Hammer married television personality Elizabeth Chambers; the two were introduced by Hammer's friend, artist Tyler Ramsey.
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