Jack Black
Acting
- Born:
- 1969-08-28
- Place of birth:
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Biography
Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black 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 of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023–present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for best metal performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
A Minecraft Movie Squared
Jumanji: Open World
Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow
The slapstick slasher movie
Taskmaster: GOSH Charity Special
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Anaconda
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks Vol. 3
Tenacious D Live at the O2
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Jack Black: Tenacious Dude
A Minecraft Movie
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Dear Santa
2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Borderlands
Dueling Dumplings
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord
Kung Fu Panda 4
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
Tenacious D: Rock Am Ring 2023
Tenacious D and the Spicy Meatball Tour
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
History of the World: Part II
Free LSD
Dio: Dreamers Never Die
Tenacious D: Live at the Mann Center
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
How Did We Get Here?
Big Nate
Cash Box
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Dear Class of 2020
Celebrity Escape Room
Feeding America Comedy Festival
Cup of Joe
One World: Together at Home
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
Jumanji: The Next Level
The Mandalorian
Tenacious D: Rock In Rio 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Unexpected Race
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Tenacious D: Post-Apocalypto
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The Aquabats! Saturday Morning!
Kung Fu Panda: The Emperors Quest
The Insufferable Groo
Amazing Saturday
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
What the Fit
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
The Russell Howard Hour
Steve
The Words That Built America
The Gong Show
Tommy Can't Sleep
The Polka King
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Great Minds with Dan Harmon
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Kung Fu Panda 3
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
Documentary Now!
Goosebumps
Another Period
The Brink
The D Train
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hot Ones
The Concert for Valor
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Sex Tape
Heaven Adores You
The Sheik
Welcome to Sweden
Harmontown
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Rick and Morty
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera
The Birthday Boys
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
Drunk History
Radio Disney Music Awards
Kennedy Center Honors: Led Zeppelin Tribute Film
Pretty Sweet
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
Comedy Bang! Bang!
The Eric Andre Show
The Roadie
Bernie
Double Fine Adventure
Good Mythical Morning
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
The Muppets
The Big Year
Brain Games
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Kung Fu Panda 2
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Workaholics
Gulliver's Travels
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
iCarly: iStart a Fan War
Conan
Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010
The Talk
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
Community
The Jay Leno Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Year One
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Chopped
Prop 8: The Musical
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2
Tenacious D: Live at The Moore Theater in Seattle
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
Tropic Thunder
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Passaic Mosaic
Fats Waller Was Born Here
Kung Fu Panda
Water and Power
D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary
Be Kind Rewind
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Margot at the Wedding
iCarly
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Acceptable.tv
The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'
The Graham Norton Show
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show
The Holiday
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
The Eighth Blunder of the World
Tenacious D: Time Fixers
Exposure
Nacho Libre
Coachella
Danny Roane: First Time Director
Kong's New York, 1933
Tenacious D: For the Ladies
Awesometown
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
King Kong
Earth to America
Made in Hollywood
The Showbiz Show with David Spade
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Infinite Challenge
The Office
Club Oscar
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Tom Goes to the Mayor
The Present
Shark Tale
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Envy
Laser Fart
Cracking Up
Channel 101
Live at Johnny's
Melvin Goes to Dinner
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
Tenacious D: In the Studio
Tenacious D: Live at Brixton Academy
The School of Rock
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Computerman
Time Belt
Celebrities Uncensored
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Lewis Lectures
Tenacious D: Live in London
Clone High
Tenacious D: Rock Star Sperm for Sale
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up
American Idol
Crank Yankers
HypaSpace
Icons
Tenacious D: Butt Baby
Ice Age
Run Ronnie Run
Orange County
Last Call with Carson Daly
Being 'Shallow Hal'
Reel Comedy: Shallow Hal
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Shallow Hal
Tenacious D: JB's BJ
The Andy Dick Show
Saving Silverman
Jesus' Son
High Fidelity
Cradle Will Rock
Teen Choice Awards
The Love Letter
Heat Vision and Jack
Heat Vision and Jack
Enemy of the State
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Will & Grace
Bongwater
Johnny Skidmarks
Tenacious D
The Jackal
The View
Mars Attacks!
Full Frontal Comedy
E! True Hollywood Story
The Fan
The Daily Show
The Cable Guy
Crossworlds
Bio-Dome
Dead Man Walking
Mr. Show with Bob and David
The Single Guy
Waterworld
Pride & Joy
Bye Bye Love
The NeverEnding Story III
The Innocent
Touched by an Angel
All-American Girl
Blind Justice
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Monty
Demolition Man
Airborne
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The X-Files
Marked for Murder
Great Scott!
The Golden Palace
Picket Fences
Bob Roberts
Morgenmagazin
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Our Shining Moment
Northern Exposure
The Simpsons
Life Goes On
This Morning
Comic Relief
Kids' Choice Awards
Too Far from the Norm
The New Leave It to Beaver
MTV Video Music Awards
The Fall Guy
Saturday Night Live
People's Choice Awards
The Oscars
Making of School of Rock
The Glorious Octagon Of Destiny
Micronations
Kung Fu Panda 5
Untitled Super Mario Film