
Place of Birth:
Santa Monica, California, USA
Date of Birth:
8/28/1969
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.

High Fidelity

King Kong

Ice Age

The Holiday

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Prop 8: The Musical

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Free LSD

Shark Tale

Bob Roberts

Envy

Saving Silverman

The Jackal

Be Kind Rewind

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Tropic Thunder

Orange County

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Jesus' Son

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

Kung Fu Panda

Bio-Dome

Enemy of the State

Nacho Libre

Waterworld

Airborne

Shallow Hal

The Cable Guy

The NeverEnding Story III

Dear Santa

Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness

Margot at the Wedding

The Lewis Lectures

Bongwater

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Blind Justice

The Roadie

Gulliver's Travels

Crossworlds

Year One

Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda Holiday

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

Tenacious D and the Spicy Meatball Tour

The Big Year

Bernie
Making Of School of Rock

How Did We Get Here?

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

Kung Fu Panda 3
Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010

Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks

D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary

Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2
The Glorious Octagon Of Destiny

The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'

Heat Vision and Jack

Tenacious D: For the Ladies

Harmontown

Goosebumps

Tenacious D: Rock Am Ring 2023

The Present

Kung Fu Panda 4

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!

Run Ronnie Run

Tenacious D: Live at the Mann Center

A Minecraft Movie

The D Train

Sex Tape

Johnny Skidmarks

The Concert for Valor

Earth to America

Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera

Dead Man Walking

Too Far from the Norm
Micronations

Heaven Adores You

Dio: Dreamers Never Die

Marked for Murder

Awesometown

Tommy Can't Sleep

Tenacious D Live Rock am Ring

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

Demolition Man

Dueling Dumplings

Mars Attacks!

21 Years: Richard Linklater

Cradle Will Rock

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Tenacious D: In the Studio

The Polka King

ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord

Anaconda

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Girl & Chocolate - Pretty Sweet

The Words That Built America

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

The Fan

Bye Bye Love

Jumanji: The Next Level

School of Rock

The Insufferable Groo

The Unexpected Race

The Innocent

Tenacious D: Live in London
The Eighth Blunder of the World

Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up

Reel Comedy: Shallow Hal

Being 'Shallow Hal'

Feeding America Comedy Festival

Club Oscar

Celebrity Escape Room

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

Dear Class of 2020

The Sheik

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

The Muppets

Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

Borderlands

Dreamworks Holiday Classics

Tenacious D: Rock Star Sperm for Sale

Tenacious D: Time Fixers

Melvin Goes to Dinner

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Tenacious D: JB's BJ

Tenacious D: Butt Baby

One World: Together at Home

Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special

Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
Cash Box

2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division

Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection

Coachella
Tenacious D: Live at Brixton Academy

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

The Love Letter
Untitled Weezer Film

Early To Class

Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

Danny Roane: First Time Director

Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow
Our Shining Moment

Kong's New York, 1933

Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks Vol. 3

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Jumanji 3

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Replayed

Kung Fu Panda: The Emperors Quest
Tenacious D Live at the O2

Legend of the Legendary Warrior
Kung Fu Panda 5

A Minecraft Movie 2