Jack Black
Acting
Born August 28, 1969 · Santa Monica, California, USA
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 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.
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Acting (159)
Jumanji 3
2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026
FREE SPIRITS
2026
Anaconda
2025
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
2025
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks Vol. 3
2025
Tenacious D Live at the O2
2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
2025
A Minecraft Movie
2025
Dear Santa
2024
2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2024
Borderlands
2024
Dueling Dumplings
2024
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord
2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
2023
Tenacious D Live Rock am Ring
2023
Tenacious D: Rock Am Ring 2023
2023
Tenacious D and the Spicy Meatball Tour
2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023
Free LSD
2023
Dio: Dreamers Never Die
2022
Tenacious D: Live at the Mann Center
2022
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2022
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022
How Did We Get Here?
2022
Cash Box
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Dear Class of 2020
2020
Celebrity Escape Room
2020
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
One World: Together at Home
2020
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
2020
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
The Unexpected Race
2018
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
2018
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018
Kung Fu Panda: The Emperors Quest
2018
The Insufferable Groo
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2017
The Words That Built America
2017
Tommy Can't Sleep
2017
social justice whatever
2017
The Polka King
2017
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
2016
Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
2015
Goosebumps
2015
The D Train
2015
The Concert for Valor
2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Sex Tape
2014
Heaven Adores You
2014
The Sheik
2014
Harmontown
2014
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera
2013
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
2013
Pretty Sweet
2012
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
2012
The Roadie
2012
Bernie
2012
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011
The Muppets
2011
The Big Year
2011
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
Gulliver's Travels
2010
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010
Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010
2010
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
2010
Vida de Garoto
2010
Year One
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
Prop 8: The Musical
2008
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2
2008
Tenacious D: Live at The Moore Theater in Seattle
2008
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
2008
Tropic Thunder
2008
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Passaic Mosaic
2008
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008
Kung Fu Panda
2008
D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary
2008
Be Kind Rewind
2008
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
Margot at the Wedding
2007
The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'
2007
The Holiday
2006
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
Tenacious D: Time Fixers
2006
Nacho Libre
2006
Coachella
2006
Danny Roane: First Time Director
2006
Kong's New York, 1933
2006
Tenacious D: For the Ladies
2006
Awesometown
2006
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
King Kong
2005
Earth to America
2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Club Oscar
2005
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004
The Present
2004
Shark Tale
2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
Envy
2004
Melvin Goes to Dinner
2003
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
2003
Tenacious D: In the Studio
2003
Tenacious D: Live at Brixton Academy
2003
School of Rock
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
2003
The Lewis Lectures
2002
Tenacious D: Live in London
2002
Tenacious D: Rock Star Sperm for Sale
2002
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up
2002
Jack Black: Spider-Man
2002
Tenacious D: Butt Baby
2002
Ice Age
2002
Run Ronnie Run
2002
Orange County
2002
Reel Comedy: Shallow Hal
2001
Being 'Shallow Hal'
2001
Shallow Hal
2001
Tenacious D: JB's BJ
2001
Saving Silverman
2001
Jesus' Son
2000
High Fidelity
2000
Cradle Will Rock
1999
The Love Letter
1999
Heat Vision and Jack
1999
Enemy of the State
1998
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1998
Bongwater
1998
Johnny Skidmarks
1998
The Jackal
1997
Mars Attacks!
1996
The Fan
1996
The Cable Guy
1996
Crossworlds
1996
Bio-Dome
1996
Dead Man Walking
1995
Waterworld
1995
Bye Bye Love
1995
The NeverEnding Story III
1994
The Innocent
1994
Blind Justice
1994
Demolition Man
1993
Airborne
1993
Marked for Murder
1993
Bob Roberts
1992
Our Shining Moment
1991
Too Far from the Norm
1987