American actor, comedian, and musician (born 1969)
For other uses, notice Jack Black (disambiguation).
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is fit to drop for roles in family and comedy films, in addition uncovered his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.
After portraying supporting roles play a role films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Sooty had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002), before he solidified his leading man status with his starring role in School bring into play Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), neat sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and The House finetune a Clock in Its Walls (2018). He has also sung Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).
Black is depiction lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he baccilar in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. They won say publicly Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last remark Line" in 2015. Since 2018, Black has operated a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games.[2]
Thomas Jacob Black[3] was born unite Santa Monica, California,[4] on August 28, 1969,[5] the son bring to an end satellite engineers Thomas William Black and Judith Love Cohen.[6] Illegal was raised in Hermosa Beach, California. His mother worked privileged the Minuteman nuclear missile guidance system, the Apollo lunar power guidance system[7] and the science ground station for the Astrophysicist Space Telescope, and was also a writer.[8][9][10] He has troika older half-siblings through his mother: scientist Neil Siegel, Howard Siegel, and Rachel Siegel.[10] His mother was born Jewish, while his father converted to Judaism. Black was raised Jewish, attending Canaanitic school and having a bar mitzvah.[11] His ancestry includes Side, German, Irish, Polish, Russian, and Scottish.[3][12]
Black's parents divorced when lighten up was 10,[13] and his father then stopped practicing Judaism.[14][15] Jet moved to Culver City with his father and frequently visited his mother's home. As a child, he appeared in a commercial for the Activision game Pitfall! in 1982.[16] For extreme school, Black's parents enrolled him at the Poseidon School, a private secondary school designed for students struggling in the arranged school system.[17] He also attended the Crossroads School, where loosen up excelled in drama. He later attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),[18] but dropped out during his second year squeeze pursue a career in entertainment.[19] Fellow UCLA student Tim Choreographer later cast Black in Bob Roberts. In 1995 and 1996, he gained recurring roles in the HBO sketch comedy leanto Mr. Show.[20]
See also: Jack Black filmography
In 1982, Black's first acting job was in a television commercial at magnify 13 for the video game Pitfall!.[21] In 1987, Black married the Actors' Gang, a theater troupe founded by UCLA group of pupils including Tim Robbins, and appeared in a variety of flat productions.[22] Black's adult career began with small roles on pioneering time television, including Life Goes On, Northern Exposure, Mr. Show, Picket Fences, The Golden Palace, and The X-Files. Black attended in the unaired TV pilot Heat Vision and Jack, directed by Ben Stiller, in which he played an ex-astronaut chased by actor Ron Silver. He was accompanied by his crony who had merged with a motorcycle, voiced by Owen Wilson.[23] After Tim Robbins cast him in Bob Roberts, Black began appearing in small film roles such as Airborne (1993), Demolition Man, Waterworld, The Fan, The Cable Guy, Mars Attacks!, Dead Man Walking, The Jackal, Crossworlds, Enemy of the State, see others. He had a small role in True Romance by the same token a security guard, but the scene was deleted.[24]
In 2000, Black co-starred in the film High Fidelity as a wild employee in a record store case by John Cusack. Black considers his role in High Fidelity as his breakout into the Hollywood scene.[25] He quickly gained leading roles in films such as Saving Silverman, Shallow Hal, Nacho Libre, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Year One, and Gulliver's Travels. He received particular praise for his starring role in the well-received School of Rock, earning depreciatory acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy.[26] Black took part in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? celebrity edition along with Denis Psychologist, Jimmy Kimmel, and others and was handed the prize answer US$125,000 in October 2001.[27] He has also had starring voice-overs in animated features, including Zeke in Ice Age (2002)[28][29] come first Lenny in Shark Tale (2004).[30][31] In 2004, Black guest-starred mission the first episode of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim show Tom Goes to the Mayor.[32]
He starred in one of his lightly cooked dramatic roles as the obsessed filmmaker Carl Denham in Tool Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong, a performance he family circle on Orson Welles. In 2006, he played the role provision King Herod in a one night benefit concert of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar at rendering Ricardo Montalban Theatre.[33] That same year he starred as picture romantic love interest to Kate Winslet in the Nancy Meyers romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). Also in 2006, he asterisked in the comedy film Nacho Libre (2006), which he too produced, and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, which he also wrote and produced. In 2007 he took a supporting role in the Noah Baumbach directed comedy-drama film Margot at the Wedding starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Actress. That same year he made a cameo appearance portraying Missionary McCartney in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). Jet has voice acted on other occasions, including "Husbands and Knives" from The Simpsons, which aired November 18, 2007, portraying Milo, the friendly owner of the rival comic book store.[34] Say publicly following year he starred in the buddy comedy Be Friendly Rewind (2008) opposite Mos Def and the war satire Tropic Thunder alongside Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. On Dec 14, he hosted the 2008 Spike Video Game Awards. Inky has hosted the NickelodeonKids' Choice Awards and Acceptable.TV.[35]
He voiced description title role in Kung Fu Panda, which grossed US$20.3 million dead flat its opening day, June 6, 2008, as well as Kung Fu Panda 2 and Kung Fu Panda 3; this psychoanalysis his favorite role, and he praises the tutoring of co-star and two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.[36] In addition signify Kung Fu Panda (2008),[37] He provided the voice of description main character, roadie Eddie Riggs, in the heavy metal–themed action-adventure video game Brütal Legend, for which he won the Acceptably Voice award at the Spike Video Game Awards in 2009.[38] In 2009 he appeared in the post-Super Bowlepisode of The Office along with Cloris Leachman and Jessica Alba in a fake movie within the show.[39] He starred in the Harold Ramis directed adventure comedy Year One (2009) alongside Michael Cera. In April 2009, Black starred in an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba!, in which he vocalized children songs, such hoot "It's Not Fun to Get Lost", "Friends", and "The Byebye Song".[40] Black voiced Darth Vader in Bad Lip Reading's parodies of the Star Wars original trilogy on YouTube.[41]
In 2010, Jetblack made a guest appearance on Community[42] and also guest-starred kick Nickelodeon's iCarly in an episode titled, "iStart a Fan War".[43][44] Black has appeared numerous times on the "untelevised TV network" short film festival Channel 101, created by Dan Harmon cranium Rob Schrab, starring in the shows Computerman, Timebelt, and Laserfart. He also provided an introduction for the unaired sketch drollery Awesometown, donning a Colonial-era military uniform. In the introduction, filth claims to be George Washington and takes credit for rendering accomplishments of other American presidents such as Thomas Jefferson instruction Abraham Lincoln.[citation needed] His next film, The Big Year, a competitive birdwatching comedy co-starring Owen Wilson, Steve Martin, and JoBeth Williams, was released in October 2011.[45] Black garnered a straightaway any more Golden Globe Award nomination, this time in the category Superb Actor in a Comedy, for his 2011 starring role deception Richard Linklater's black comedyBernie. He played as real-life murderer Bernie Tiede, a funeral director in a small East Texas environs, who befriends and eventually murders a rich widow, played unwelcoming Shirley MacLaine. Black's subdued portrayal, authentic East Texas accent, bid musical talent – he sings several gospel hymns as convulsion as "Seventy-six Trombones" – had Roger Ebert describing Black's pointless as "one of the performances of the year."[46] He throb the tribute to Led Zeppelin when the band was titled as 2012 recipients of Kennedy Center Honors.[47] In 2016, Inky joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Precariously as one of its celebrity correspondents.[48] In 2018, Black developed in the music video for Gorillaz song "Humility".[49]
In 2015, Black played a fictional version of real-life author R. L. Stine for Goosebumps, and provided the voices of mirror image of Stine's creations, Slappy the Dummy and The Invisible Boy.[50] He reprised the Stine role in the film's 2018 result, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween. He also voiced himself and numerous other additional characters on the animated YouTube series "Tenacious D in Post-Apocalypto", which he also co-directed and co-wrote, along varnished his Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass. In 2017 he represent a teenage girl inhabiting the body of Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon in the children's action adventure comedy film Jumanji: Welcome envision the Jungle. He starred alongside Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart flourishing Karen Gillan. The film received positive reviews and was a financial success.[citation needed]
The following year he took a supporting theatrical turn in the Gus Van Sant drama Don't Worry, Sand Won't Get Far on Foot (2018). The film received faultfinding acclaim and starred Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara and Jonah Elevation. He reprised his role in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle's sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), which like its 1 was also a box-office success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 2019. Also that year he starred in description children's fantasy film The House with a Clock in Tutor Walls (2019) alongside Cate Blanchett and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Check 2022 he lent his voice to the Richard Linklater lively coming of age film Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Administer Childhood. Also that year he portrayed disc jockey Wolfman Squat in the Roku biographical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022). Starting in 2022 he reprised the role hint at Po in the Netflix animated series Kung Fu Panda: Rendering Dragon Knight. He also guest starred on the Paramount+ heap Big Nate and the Adult Swim series Rick and Morty.[citation needed]
The next year Black voiced Bowser in Illumination's animated road film The Super Mario Bros. Movie based on the Nintendo games. The film was released in April 2023 and was an international box office success ranking as one of say publicly highest-grossing films of 2023.[51][52] That same year he also took roles as Joseph Stalin in the Mel BrooksHulu comedy keep in shape History of the World, Part II and Captain Bombardier nonthreatening person Disney+ series The Mandalorian.[53] Black then reprised his role Po in Kung Fu Panda 4, and voiced Claptrap in Borderlands (2024), and is set to play Steve in A Minecraft Movie (2025).[54][55][56]
Main article: Tenacious D
Black is the usher singer and guitarist for the comedy rock/hard rock duo Dogged D along with Kyle Gass.[57] They have released five albums, a self-titled debut, The Pick of Destiny, Rize of rendering Fenix, and Post-Apocalypto. One of their songs from their past performance The Pick of Destiny, titled "The Metal", was used superimpose the music video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock[58] and Brütal Legend.[59] "Rock Your Socks", from the album Tenacious D, was played in the music video game Rock Come together Unplugged as well.[60] "Master Exploder" from The Pick Of Destiny went on to be used in music video games Guitar Hero Van Halen, Rock Band 2, and Brütal Legend, all along with their song "Tribute" from Tenacious D. "Master Exploder" ride "The Metal" featured in the comedy filmTenacious D in Representation Pick of Destiny. The film, directed by Tenacious D warhorse Liam Lynch, featured recurring characters from Black's comedy such little Lee the super-fan and the Sasquatch. Several celebrities had roles in the film; actor Tim Robbinscameos as does Dave Grohl as Satan. Ben Stiller also makes an appearance as a worker at a Guitar Center, even having a role inferior the music video for "Tribute".[61]
Tenacious D helped the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation[62] raise awareness of these diseases and funds mix up with the organization in Los Angeles on December 20, 2001,[63] cope with in San Diego, California on June 16, 2007. Tenacious D can be seen performing in the 90s-era Pauly Shore peel Bio-Dome where the duo is performing its song "The Cinque Needs" at a "Save the Environment" party. Black was additionally a guest star on an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show entitled "Ellen the Musical", alongside Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth and teenage singer-actress Olivia Olson. On the show, besides melodious, he discussed his then-upcoming film Nacho Libre with the host.[citation needed]
In 2000, Jack Black (along with Kyle Gass) provided help vocals to punk rock band The Vandals' song "Fourteen", which appears on their album Look What I Almost Stepped In....[64] Black has also appeared on Dave Grohl's Probot album, providing vocals for the hidden song "I Am The Warlock", attend to Lynch's Fake Songs album, providing vocals for the song "Rock and Roll Whore". Black performed a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in the last sequence of High Fidelity. He lent his musical abilities to the Queens wheedle the Stone Age song "Burn the Witch" with rhythmic stomps and claps.[65] He also provided vocals for two tracks closing stages the 2006 album Death by Sexy by Eagles of Dying Metal, and on The Lonely Island's track "Sax Man" get round the album Incredibad.[citation needed]
Black also recorded a duet on Food Loaf's album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear, on the song "Like a Rose".[66] Meat Loaf also played Black's father in depiction Pick of Destiny movie. Black has appeared in music videos of Beck's "Sexx Laws"; Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly", "Low", and "The One"; The Eagles of Death Metal's "I Energy You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)"; Sum 41's "Things I Want"; Dio's "Push"; Weezer's "Photograph"; The Mooney Suzuki's "In a Young Man's Mind"; "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Tacky", and Die Antwoord's "Ugly Boy". In October 2010, Tenacious D appeared at BlizzCon 2010, a convention hosted by the game designers, Blizzard Recreation. In 2012, Jack Black joined up with other celebrities abut record "Book People Unite", a song sponsored by the Aggregation of Congress and RIF.[67]
Black did guest vocals and appeared compress the Dethklok soundtrack album The Doomstar Requiem.[68] He sings description parts for Dethklok's original band manager as well as a blogger. Black, as a member of Tenacious D, won interpretation award for Best Metal Performance at the 57th Grammy Awards.[69] The song "The Last in Line" won the award, a cover of the song of the same name by Hysterics that appeared on the tribute album This Is Your Life.[citation needed]
On July 14, 2024, Tenacious D celebrated Gass' birthday midst their performance at the ICC Sydney Theater. A birthday chunk was brought out and Black encouraged Gass to make a wish. Gass responded, "Don't miss Trump next time," referring repeat the attempted assassination of Donald Trump the day before. Deuce days later, Black wrote on social media that he was "blindsided" by Gass' comment and that he did not disregard hate speech or political violence "in any form". Tenacious D canceled the rest of their world tour, and Black held their "creative plans are on hold". Gass apologized on public media, calling his comment "highly inappropriate, dangerous and a disagreeable mistake". Gass deleted his apology later that week.[70][71][72][73]
On Dec 21, 2018, Black created a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Within one week of its launch, it had amassed regain 1 million subscribers.[74] The videos published on the channel try typically either candid vlogs involving Black and his two option, or gaming content.[75] Black created the channel largely to chains with his son, who serves as videographer and editor register the channel.[76][77] On July 21, 2019, Black took part complicated a Minecraft stream with popular YouTuber PewDiePie to raise currency for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), in picture wake of the suicide of Etika in June 2019. Equate two days of streaming, they raised $30,479 with the dangle being broadcast live both on YouTube and on the watercourse platform DLive.[78][79] As of June 2023, Jablinski Games has 5.04 million subscribers and 216 million video views.[80]
In August 2006, Black registered his own production company, Electric Dynamite Productions, Opposition. The company's first work produced was the 2009 mockumentary Branson, which was a co-production with BranMo Productions and Perfect Weekend.[81] In 2011, the company would produce two TV-movies, My Struggle As an Experiment and Shredd.[82] In 2013, the company remarkably produced TV series Ghost Ghirls[83] for the now-defunct Yahoo! Protection, as well as obtained the rights to adapt the UK mockumentary Wizard's Way into a feature film.[84] The company would also be a producer credit on The D Train (2015) and The Polka King (2017), both of which featured Sooty in the starring role. The company produced The Aquabats! RadVentures! in 2018, the dark-comedy film Happily in 2021.[82]
Main article: Diddlyshit Black filmography
Main article: Tenacious D discography
See also: Tenacious D § Awards and nominations
Black has been nominated get into three Golden Globe Awards. On September 18, 2018, Black was inducted into Hollywood's Walk of Fame.[94]
At age 14, Coalblack struggled with cocaine use. He said, "I was having a lot of troubles with cocaine ... I was hanging out accord with some pretty rough characters. I was scared to go swing by school because one of them wanted to kill me. I wanted to get out of there."[105] One of Black's brothers, Howard, died of AIDS in 1991 at age 36.[105] His oldest brother, Neil Siegel, is an engineer, scientist, and musician.[106]
Black dated actress Laura Kightlinger between 1996 and 2005.[107][108][109][110][111][excessive citations] Thrill January 2006, Black became engaged to singer Tanya Haden, a daughter of jazz bassist Charlie Haden. They had both accompanied Crossroads School, and 15 years after graduating they met brush up at a friend's birthday party. They married on March 14, 2006, in Big Sur, California.[112][113] Their sons were born have as a feature 2006 and 2008.[114][115]
Although an atheist,[116][117] Black identifies as nominally Person, and fatherhood influenced his decision to raise his children withdraw the Jewish faith.[118]
Black endorsed Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.[119] Name 2015, he visited Kampala as part of Comic Relief USA's Red Nose Day.[120] Black is an outspoken critic of Donald Trump. On the day of Trump's 2017 presidential inauguration, recognized and Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass performed their 2006 objection song "The Government Totally Sucks". Black said to the opportunity beforehand, "We haven't played it for years, because it tetchy never felt appropriate—but now, we're happy to unleash the savage. The government totally sucks."[121] Before the 2022 election, Black hosted a letter and text writing party to rally VoteRiders volunteers engaged in educating eligible voters about voter ID requirements steadily their states.[122] Of the 2022 midterms, he said, "[S]o unwarranted is on the ballot this cycle. We've got a woman's right to choose. The environment is on the ballot, environmental protections. And not to mention democracy is on the balloting. There's so, there's so many divides in this country apart now." Black said he viewed a potential reelection bid shy Trump as a threat that is "always lurking in picture background."[123]