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 Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe & 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) & his rock-comedy band, Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.
Bio:
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe & 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) & his rock-comedy band, Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.
Tivia:
His parents, Judith Lois (Cohen) and Thomas William Black, who were rocket scientists, divorced when Black was 10. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, 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.One of his closest friends is Dave Grohl.His wife is a triplet. Her 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.Despite poking fun at the genre, he is actually a very knowledgeable fan of hard rock/heavy metal music from the 1970s and 1980s. He even appears as part of Tenacious D in Ronnie James Dio's music video for the song "Push".One half of the rock band Tenacious D alongside friend and collaborator Kyle Gass.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).Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his wife Tanya Haden gave birth to their son Samuel Jason Black on June 10, 2006.Often competes for the same roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the DVD audio commentary for School of Rock (2003), he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis".He and Mike White formed a production company called Black and White.Said he considers The Who to be the greatest band of all time, explaining that "they were the first ones to ever rock HARD... the recklessness, the deliciousness!".Sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).Filmed a television pilot called Heat Vision and Jack (1999) co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben Stiller. The series was a parody of Knight Rider (1982), as well as other action adventure series, and featured a talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson.Was considered for the role of Freddy Lounds in Red Dragon (2002), which went to Philip Seymour Hoffman.Is good friends with Tim Robbins, Cesar Gonzalez and Will Smith.Attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.Was considered for the role of Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in an unproduced screenplay by Robert Smigel. The idea was ultimately scrapped by Warner Brothers for a less comedic screenplay.Appears in a parody of the Council of Elrond scene shown during the MTV Movie Awards. The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson later cast him in King Kong (2005).Discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover seder.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.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6144 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 18, 2018.Jack's paternal grandfather, Thomas Walter Black, had Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, ancestry, partly by way of Canada, and Jack's paternal grandmother, Gladys Rose Zachman, was from an ethnic German family that had emigrated from Romania and Ukraine. Jack's maternal grandparents, Morris Cohen and Sarah Roisman, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Jack's father converted to Judaism when he married Jack's mother.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 (2005).Revealed on an Australian late night variety show that his favorite KISS rock song is "I Love it Loud" (1982) where he began singing parodied lyrics to the first verse.Hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with Sarah Michelle Gellar (2002).Was engaged to actor/comedian/producer Laura Kightlinger, previously. They were together from 1997 to 2005.Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.Mentioned in the song "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup, as "the clown".Auditioned for the role of Cubby Barnes in Ransom (1996), which went to Donnie Wahlberg.Had his gall bladder removed.He and Kirsten Dunst were considered for Land of the Lost (2009). Black was in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Dunst was in Jumanji (1995).Done commentary for a pro wrestling event.Born on the same date as Jason Priestley.Born at 3:04 AM (PDT).Was a guitarist in the group Tenacious D. |
| Name: |
Jack Black |
Type: |
Actor,Producer,Writer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actor,Producer,Writer |
| Products for sale: |
Actor,Producer,Writer |
| Model rank: |
68 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 02:47:30 |
| Height: |
5' 6' (1.68 m) |
| Biography: |
Thomas Jacob \"Jack\" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. |
| Trivia: |
His parents, Judith Lois (Cohen) and Thomas William Black, who were rocket scientists, divorced when Black was 10. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, 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.One of his closest friends is Dave Grohl.His wife is a triplet. Her 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.Despite poking fun at the genre, he is actually a very knowledgeable fan of hard rock/heavy metal music from the 1970s and 1980s. He even appears as part of Tenacious D in Ronnie James Dio's music video for the song "Push".One half of the rock band Tenacious D alongside friend and collaborator Kyle Gass.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).Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his wife Tanya Haden gave birth to their son Samuel Jason Black on June 10, 2006.Often competes for the same roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the DVD audio commentary for School of Rock (2003), he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis".He and Mike White formed a production company called Black and White.Said he considers The Who to be the greatest band of all time, explaining that "they were the first ones to ever rock HARD... the recklessness, the deliciousness!".Sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).Filmed a television pilot called Heat Vision and Jack (1999) co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben Stiller. The series was a parody of Knight Rider (1982), as well as other action adventure series, and featured a talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson.Was considered for the role of Freddy Lounds in Red Dragon (2002), which went to Philip Seymour Hoffman.Is good friends with Tim Robbins, Cesar Gonzalez and Will Smith.Attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.Was considered for the role of Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in an unproduced screenplay by Robert Smigel. The idea was ultimately scrapped by Warner Brothers for a less comedic screenplay.Appears in a parody of the Council of Elrond scene shown during the MTV Movie Awards. The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson later cast him in King Kong (2005).Discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover seder.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.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6144 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 18, 2018.Jack's paternal grandfather, Thomas Walter Black, had Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, ancestry, partly by way of Canada, and Jack's paternal grandmother, Gladys Rose Zachman, was from an ethnic German family that had emigrated from Romania and Ukraine. Jack's maternal grandparents, Morris Cohen and Sarah Roisman, were Russian Jewish immigrants. Jack's father converted to Judaism when he married Jack's mother.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 (2005).Revealed on an Australian late night variety show that his favorite KISS rock song is "I Love it Loud" (1982) where he began singing parodied lyrics to the first verse.Hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with Sarah Michelle Gellar (2002).Was engaged to actor/comedian/producer Laura Kightlinger, previously. They were together from 1997 to 2005.Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.Mentioned in the song "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup, as "the clown".Auditioned for the role of Cubby Barnes in Ransom (1996), which went to Donnie Wahlberg.Had his gall bladder removed.He and Kirsten Dunst were considered for Land of the Lost (2009). Black was in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Dunst was in Jumanji (1995).Done commentary for a pro wrestling event.Born on the same date as Jason Priestley.Born at 3:04 AM (PDT).Was a guitarist in the group Tenacious D. |
| Trademarks: |
Starts speaking in a slow, quiet tempo and begins to sing in a faster louder cadence.
Often plays slackers or sloppy infantiles
Expressive eyes/eyebrows
Stocky frame |
| Quotes: |
[on filming the love scene in Shallow Hal (2001)] It was just strictly professional. It was like a doctor or a carpenter plying his trade. I received no pleasure whatsoever... I requested 32 takes for the perfection of the craft.
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Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one, my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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[on co-starring with Gwyneth Paltrow for the first time in Shallow Hal (2001)] You know, I WAS a little afraid that she would fall head-over-heels in love with me, like she did [when co-starring] with Brad Pitt in Se7en (1995).
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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I was a little worried about working with kids. I wanted to make sure we didn't approach it tip-toeing around the stuff that would normally be funny, or make it gentle, rock-a-bye-baby bullshit. |
| Salaries: |
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) - $5,000,000
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Orange County (2002) - $2,000,000
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Shallow Hal (2001) - $2,000,000
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Saving Silverman (2001) - $1,000,000
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High |
| Job title: |
Actor,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
Member of the comedy/music group Tenacious D along with Kyle Gass. They had two ten-minute spots on HBO entitled "Tenacious D: The Greatest Band on Earth."
Did a instructional speech and communication video in the mid to late 80s
Guest starred |
| Spouse: |
Tanya Haden (March 14, 2006 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Samuel Jason BlackThomas David Black |
| Parents: |
Judith Love Cohen
Thomas William Black |
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