Jack Black
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), 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 (2023). 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
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
This Morning
5.2
The Simpsons
8
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.7
Tenacious D
7.2
Computerman
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
The Daily Show
6.354
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
5.8
The Showbiz Show with David Spade
7.3
Touched by an Angel
7.2
Clone High
7.4
The View
4.5
Icons
8
Tom Goes to the Mayor
6.8
HypaSpace
4
E! True Hollywood Story
8.103
Welcome to Sweden
6.19
Heat Vision and Jack
5
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.411
The Golden Palace
6.2
American Idol
5.1
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.853
The Jay Leno Show
3.6
The Andy Dick Show
7.7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.343
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.2
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
6.7
Celebrities Uncensored
2.5
Cracking Up
5
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show
5.3
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
5.869
Good Mythical Morning
7
Live at Johnny's
0
The Oscars
7
The Mandalorian
8.4
Brain Games
7.478
Community
7.995
The Birthday Boys
6.8
The Brink
7.061
iCarly
7.986
Comedy Bang! Bang!
6.2
Documentary Now!
6.952
The X-Files
8.377
Drunk History
6.839
Radio Disney Music Awards
9.6
Saturday Night Live
7
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
6.9
Big Nate
8.1
The Graham Norton Show
7.2
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
6.792
The Eric Andre Show
7.9
Life Goes On
6.385
The Gong Show
5.6
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
7.5
Another Period
6.7
MTV Video Music Awards
7.6
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
7.467
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7.8
Last Call with Carson Daly
2.9
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.422
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
7.4
Double Fine Adventure
9.3
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
5.986
Drunk History
6.839
Hot Ones
7.4
Will & Grace
6.855
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.3
The Russell Howard Hour
8
Eli Roth's History of Horror
6.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Exposure
0
Water And Power
5
Infinite Challenge
7.6
Acceptable.tv
5.5
Laser Fart
0
The Fall Guy
7.524
The New Leave It to Beaver
6.2
Great Scott!
6
Northern Exposure
7.9
Monty
0
All-American Girl
6
The Single Guy
6.3
Saturday Night Live
7
Picket Fences
7.4
Mr. Show with Bob and David
7.728
Mr. Show with Bob and David
7.728
Mr. Show with Bob and David
7.728
Mr. Show with Bob and David
7.728
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.061
Great Minds with Dan Harmon
7.1
Rick and Morty
8.688
Saturday Night Live
7
Acceptable.tv
5.5
MTV Movie & TV Awards
7.9
Drunk History
6.839
Chopped
6.3
Off Camera with Sam Jones
4
Cup of Joe
5.7
History of the World: Part II
5.669
Kids' Choice Awards
9.2
The Office
8.58
Made in Hollywood
4
Channel 101
0
Conan
7.068
Pride & Joy
0
Morgenmagazin
3.5
Amazing Saturday
7.333
Time Belt
0
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
0
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
7.5
Honest Trailers
6.5
What the Fit
5
Full Frontal Comedy
0
Movies
High Fidelity
7.114
King Kong
6.887
Ice Age
7.362
The Holiday
7.092
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
6.8
Prop 8: The Musical
7.217
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
7.619
Free LSD
7
Shark Tale
6.024
Bob Roberts
6.539
Envy
4.9
Saving Silverman
5.7
The Jackal
6.379
Be Kind Rewind
6.3
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
6.584
Tropic Thunder
6.689
Orange County
6.029
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6.694
Jesus' Son
6.324
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
0
Kung Fu Panda
7.3
Bio-Dome
4.532
Enemy of the State
7.054
Nacho Libre
6.5
Waterworld
6.219
Airborne
5.917
Shallow Hal
6.161
The Cable Guy
5.995
The NeverEnding Story III
4.455
Dear Santa
6.225
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
7.488
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
6.816
Margot at the Wedding
5.8
The Lewis Lectures
0
Bongwater
4.791
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
6.7
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
7
Blind Justice
5.14
The Roadie
6
Gulliver's Travels
5.201
Crossworlds
5.1
Year One
4.977
Kung Fu Panda 2
7.043
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
7
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
6.4
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
7.5
Tenacious D and the Spicy Meatball Tour
0
The Big Year
6
Bernie
6.59
Making Of School of Rock
0
How Did We Get Here?
8.2
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
5.7
Kung Fu Panda 3
6.915
Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010
6
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
7.4
D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary
7.2
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2
6.1
The Glorious Octagon Of Destiny
0
The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'
5
Heat Vision and Jack
5.9
Tenacious D: For the Ladies
7
Goosebumps
6.308
Harmontown
6.578
Tenacious D: Rock Am Ring 2023
0
The Present
0
Kung Fu Panda 4
7.1
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
6.73
Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
0
Run Ronnie Run
5.9
Tenacious D: Live at the Mann Center
0
A Minecraft Movie
6.5
The D Train
4.882
Sex Tape
5.414
Johnny Skidmarks
5.8
The Concert for Valor
8.6
Earth to America
8
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera
7.814
Dead Man Walking
7.319
Too Far from the Norm
0
Micronations
0
Heaven Adores You
6.9
Dio: Dreamers Never Die
7.4
Marked for Murder
4
Awesometown
7.385
Tommy Can`t Sleep
1
Tenacious D Live Rock am Ring
0
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
6.47
Demolition Man
6.737
Dueling Dumplings
5.5
Mars Attacks!
6.415
21 Years: Richard Linklater
6.2
Cradle Will Rock
6.5
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
5.37
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
6.8
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
6.821
Lord of the Piercing
6.5
Stepdude
0
Tenacious D: In the Studio
10
The Polka King
5.59
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord
6.8
Anaconda
0
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
6.704
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
6.254
Girl & Chocolate - Pretty Sweet
8.5
The Words That Built America
6
Fight for Your Right Revisited
6.594
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
6.108
The Fan
6
Bye Bye Love
5.9
Jumanji: The Next Level
6.894
School of Rock
7.085
The Insufferable Groo
5
The Unexpected Race
0
The Innocent
5.2
Tenacious D: Live in London
8
The Eighth Blunder of the World
0
Being 'Shallow Hal'
8
Reel Comedy: Shallow Hal
10
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up
6.3
Feeding America Comedy Festival
6.8
Club Oscar
4.9
Celebrity Escape Room
5.9
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
6.9
Dear Class of 2020
7.7
The Sheik
7.346
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
7.029
The Muppets
6.677
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
6.8
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
0
Borderlands
5.662
Dreamworks Holiday Classics
7.7
Tenacious D: Rock Star Sperm for Sale
8
Tenacious D: Time Fixers
7.3
Melvin Goes to Dinner
5.3
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
4.6
Tenacious D: JB's BJ
8
Tenacious D: Butt Baby
9
One World: Together at Home
7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
6.8
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
7.9
Jack Black: Spider-Man
7.2
Cash Box
0
2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
7.25
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division
0
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
8
Coachella
6.4
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
0
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
0
The Love Letter
5.1
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special
6
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
0
Untitled Weezer Film
0
Area 52
0
Jabliski VS. Jack Black
0
Jabliski VS. Jack Black
0
Tenacious D - Rock In Rio 2019
0
Computerman
0
Tenacious D HBO Episodes
0
Super Mario World
0
Early To Class
0