Date of Birth 28 August 1969, Hermosa Beach, California, USA

Birth Name Thomas Jack Black

Nickname JB Jables

Height 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Jack Black was born in Santa Monica, California, and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins's acting troupe and it was through this collaboration that led to his 1992 film debut in Bob Roberts (1992). Although he was just a background voice in his first film, Jack's appearances in such television shows as "The X Files" (1993), his breakthrough performance in High Fidelity (2000), and his rock-comedy band Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.

• The Year One (2009)

Zed

• Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Jerry

• D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary (2008)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Voice of Po

• Tropic Thunder (2008)

Jeff “Fats” Portnoy

• Margot at the Wedding (2007)

Malcolm

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Paul McCartney

• Danny Roane: First Time Director (2006)
• Nacho Libre (2006)

Nacho

• Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)

JB

• The Holiday (2006)

Miles

• King Kong (2005)

Carl Denham

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Cameo

• Envy (2004)

Nick Vanderpark

• Shark Tale (2004)

Voice of Lenny

• Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
• School of Rock (2003)

Dewey Finn

• Sixty Spins Around the Sun (2003)
• Ice Age (2002)

Voice of of Zeke

• Orange County (2002)

Lance

• Run, Ronnie, Run (2002)
• Saving Silverman (2001)

J D

• Shallow Hal (2001)

Hal Larsen

• High Fidelity (2000)

Barry

• Jesus' Son (2000)

Georgie

• Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Sid

• Bongwater (1998)
• Enemy of the State (1998)

Fiedler

• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
• Johnny Skidmarks (1998)

Jerry

• Crossworlds (1997)
• The Jackal (1997)

Lamont

• Bio-Dome (1996)

Tenacious D

• Mars Attacks! (1996)

Billy Glenn Norris

• The Cable Guy (1996)

Rick

• The Fan (1996)

Broadcast Technician

• Bye, Bye Love (1995)

DJ at Party

• Dead Man Walking (1995)

Craig Poncelet

• Waterworld (1995)

Pilot

• The Neverending Story III (1994)

Slip

• Airborne (1993)

Augie

• Demolition Man (1993)

Wasteland Scraps

• Bob Roberts (1992)

Roger

• Marked for Murder (1992)

Member of the band Tenacious D.

Filmed a television pilot called Heat Vision and Jack (1999) (TV) co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben Stiller. The show was a parody of "Knight Rider" (1982), as well as other action/ adventure shows, and featured a talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson.

Discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover seder.

Revealed on an Australian late night variety show that his favorite KISS rock song is 1982's "I Love it Loud," where he began singing parodied lyrics to the first verse.

Often competes for the same parts with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the The School of Rock (2003) DVD audio commentary, he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis."

Shares a birthday with Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes and Daniel Stern.

Born on the same day as Jason Priestley.

Attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.

Is a member of, what the media refers to as the Frat Pack along with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Steve Carell and Luke Wilson. The Frat Pack name is a reference to the film Old School (2003), which features Vaughn, Ferrell, and Wilson, due to the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Black's "Frat Pack" films include The Cable Guy (1996), Envy (2004), and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).

Starred in a management training film "Manager of the Year - Effective Listening (1987)" as a teenager who tells his father that the family car has been stolen.

Had his gall bladder removed.

Hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 2002 along with Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).

One of his closest friends is David Grohl.

Is good friends with Tim Robbins.

Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.

Despite poking fun at the genre, he is actually a very knowledgeable fan of a lot hard rock/metal music from the 1970s and 1980s. He even appears as part of Tenacious D in the Ronnie James Dio video for the song "Push.".

Appears in a parody of the Council of Elrond scene shown during the MTV movie awards. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson later cast him in King Kong (2005).

His parents, who were both rocket scientists, divorced when Black was 10. His mother worked on the Hubble space telescope.

Originally met his wife in high school. They both attended Crossroads, a private school. They met again 15 years after they graduated high school at a friend's birthday party.

Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.

His wife is a triplet. Her two other sisters, Petra Haden and Rachel Haden, also musicians, used to be members of the band That Dog. Petra was also a former member of the band The Decemberists. Their brother is Josh Haden.

He and his wife eloped after dating less than a year. They were married in Big Sur, California by the same minister who performed Shane Stanley and Val Barri's ceremony in 2005.

Jack and his wife, Tanya Haden, became the parents of a boy, Samuel Wyatt, on June 10, 2006.

Auditioned for the role of "Cubby Barnes" in Ransom (1996).

Mentioned in the song "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup, as "the clown".

Jack and his wife Tanya are expecting their second child [2008].

Good friends with Will Smith.

Huge fan of Professional Wrestling.

Was considered for the role of Freddy Lounds in Red Dragon (2002).

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