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Born in Hermosa Beach, California
August 28, 1969
Black was born in Redondo Beach, California, the son of two satellite engineers, Judith (née Cohen) and Thomas Jack Black, Sr.; his mother worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Jack Black's mother is Jewish and his father converted to Judaism; Black was thus raised Jewish. His parents divorced when he was 10. Jack had a Bull Mastiff and Rottweiler mix named Chico. Chico died of parvovirus soon after Jack's parents divorced. Black moved to Culver City with his father and frequently visited his mother’s home until the end of his first year of college at UCLA when his father’s family moved to Bristol, UK. As a child, Black appeared in an early Atari Pitfall! commercial, which was later shown during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and again on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Tenacious D.
January 1, 1994 - Now
Tenacious D is an American satirical rock duo formed by musicians and actors Kyle Gass and Jack Black in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Their music fuses vulgar absurdist comedy with rock music in a style that critics have described as "mock rock".
Tenacious D's music showcases Black's theatrical vocal delivery and Gass' acoustic guitar playing abilities.[3] Their songs discuss the duo's purported musical and sexual prowess, as well as their friendship and cannabis usage. Their debut self-titled album features absurd and humorous sketches. Music critics have compared the storyteller-style lyrics of their songs to lyrics of rock opera.
The band first gained popularity in 1999 when they starred in the self-titled Tenacious D, a television series on US cable network HBO, in which Black and Gass attempted to establish themselves as the "Greatest Band on Earth". The series airs occasionally on Comedy Central and is available on their DVD, The Complete Masterworks. In addition, they have since recorded two albums, and starred in their own movie, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Dated Laura Kightlinger
January 1, 1997 - January 1, 2005
Black dated actress and comedian Laura Kightlinger from 1997 until 2005.
Sexx Laws Video
October 25, 1999
"Sexx Laws" is a song by Beck, from the 1999 album Midnite Vultures. It was released as the lead single from the album in October 1999. Musically, the song is an unusual combination of brassy funk with bluegrass-styled banjo and pedal steel guitar on the choruses and instrumental break.
The music video was directed by Beck himself. Jack Black appears in the music video, which is partly a tribute to the film Mister Freedom. A pre-PUA Neil Strauss also appears in the video. The video is very surreal, at one point enlisting a spinning statue of a zebra with a banjo.
Shallow Hal
November 9, 2001
Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black and Jason Alexander. Hal Larson (Black), a superficial man and his equally-shallow friend Mauricio Wilson (Alexander) both share an interest in beautiful women, and try to act cool and hip when around them, but most women interpret their wild dance moves as obnoxious and want nothing to do with them. At work, Hal's co-workers accuse him of being shallow and caring about nothing but physical appearance, and ask him "when he's gonna get it." Hal wants to see women for their inner beauty, but his appreciation of physical beauty gets in the way. While going to work one day, by an unexpected twist of fate, Hal meets the famous American life coach Tony Robbins while stuck in an elevator, and has a talk with him about himself and Tony. Robbins, understanding Hal's situation, hypnotizes him into seeing people's inner beauty, not their external selves. Subsequently he falls in love with Rosemary (Paltrow), a woman who appears to him to look slender and beautiful due to her kind, generous nature, but is, in actuality, very obese. At first, she accuses him of being childish, because she thinks he's pretending to date her, but later realises his feelings for her are genuine.
Orange County
January 11, 2002
Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is a local surfer kid from Orange County, California who, after the death of his best friend, becomes disillusioned with his life and looks for another path. He stumbles upon a book titled "Straight Jacket", and decides to become an author. His dreams are of going to Stanford University to study with the book's author, Marcus Skinner, and to get away from his dysfunctional household. When his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong transcript, Shaun goes to great lengths to get into Stanford by any means possible, with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley (Schuyler Fisk) and his drugged-out older brother Lance (Jack Black).
School of Rock
October 3, 2003
School of Rock is a 2003 American comedy film from Paramount Pictures, starring Jack Black. The film was written specifically for Black by Mike White and directed by Richard Linklater. School of Rock features musical prodigies, aged between ten and fourteen, who play guitar, drums, and keyboard remarkably well, in addition to having real vocalists.
Dewey Finn (Jack Black), a flamboyant and hyperactive heavy metal/hard rock singer and guitarist, is kicked out of his band "No Vacancy" by the rest of the members for his arrogance and frequent stage antics, which had just caused them to be thrown out of the club they were performing at the previous night. His roommate Ned Schneebly (Mike White), a former rock musician who had left his past behind and became a substitute teacher, threatens Dewey with eviction under heavy pressure from Ned's overbearing girlfriend Patty (Sarah Silverman) unless Dewey "gets a real job" and pays his rent debt of $2,200. Ned suggests selling one of his guitars instead, but Dewey is disdainful of this idea ("Would you tell Picasso to sell one of his guitars?"). Dewey feels forced to give up his passion until he intercepts a phone call to Ned from the principal (Joan Cusack) of Horace Green Elementary, a highly prestigious prep school, asking Ned to fill in for a teacher who had been in an accident and would be out for several weeks. Dewey gets the idea to impersonate his roommate and take the job as a substitute teacher for the fifth-grade class.
Envy
April 30, 2004
Ben Stiller and Jack Black star as Tim and Nick, best friends, neighbors and co-workers, whose equal footing is suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds: Vapoorizer, a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind for that matter, evaporate into thin air -- to where exactly is anyone's guess. Tim, who had scoffed at Nick's idea and passed on an opportunity to get in on the deal, can only watch as Nick's fortune -- and Tim's own envy -- grow to equally outrageous proportions. When the flames of jealousy are fanned by an oddball drifter (Walken) who imposes himself into the situation, Tim's life careens wildly out of control ... taking Nick's with it.
King Kong
December 14, 2005
King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 film of the same name about a fictional giant ape called Kong. The film was directed by Peter Jackson and stars Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, Jack Black as Carl Denham, Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll and, through performance capture, Andy Serkis as Kong.
The film opens in New York City, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Having lost her job as a vaudeville actress, Ann Darrow is hired by troubled filmmaker Carl Denham to be an actress in his new motion picture. With time running out, Ann signs on when she learns her favorite playwright Jack Driscoll is the screenwriter. On the SS Venture, they slowly fall in love. As for Carl, a warrant is out for his arrest and Captain Englehorn begins to have second thoughts, following the fears of his crew over the legend of Skull Island. Despite his attempt to turn around, their ship is sucked up into a fog and crashes into one of the encircling rocks.
Married to Tanya Haden
March 14, 2006 - Now
In January 2006, he became engaged to Tanya Haden (daughter of the jazz double bassist Charlie Haden). Haden herself is an accomplished cellist. Both attended Crossroads school, but met again 15 years after graduating, at a friend's birthday party. Black proposed marriage around Christmas 2005 with a $50,000 Neil Lane ring. They married on March 14, 2006, in Big Sur, California.
Son Samuel Wyatt Black Born
June 10, 2006
Black's son with wife Tanya Haden, Samuel Wyatt Black, was born on June 10, 2006 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Nacho Libre
June 16, 2006
Ignacio (Jack Black) is a Mexican friar without skills. His mother was a Lutheran missionary from Scandinavia and his father was a Mexican minister. They tried to convert each other but instead got married, and died while Ignacio was young. After growing up as an orphan in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery’s cook, but is looked down upon by the other friars. All his life, Ignacio has dreamed of becoming a luchador (masked wrestler); because wrestling was forbidden by the monastery, his dream was crushed. Ignacio cares deeply for the orphans he feeds, but his food is terrible due to a lack of funds with which to obtain better ingredients.
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
November 22, 2006
As a young man, (Jack Black) is the black sheep of his religious family in the oppressive town of Kickapoo, Missouri. He leaves for Los Angeles after abuse from his father and a vision of Dio.
Shortly after he arrives in Hollywood, he stumbles upon a long-haired man playing acoustic guitar. The man introduces himself as Kyle Gass, and is very unimpressed with Jack. Despite the fact that Jack improvises lyrics for Kyle's playing off the top of his head ("Classico"), Kyle still rejects Jack's overtures of friendship. Jack, disheartened, wanders off into the city ("Baby"), where he is attacked by a gang of A Clockwork Orange-themed thugs (complete with white overalls, masks and cockney accents). They beat him briefly and run off, whereupon Kyle emerges and chastises the already-fled gang members. Jack, believing that Kyle chased them away, is intensely grateful, and Kyle takes him back to his apartment.
The Holiday
December 8, 2006
The Holiday (2006) is a romantic comedy film distributed by Columbia Pictures, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black.
After 3 years of an on-again off-again relationship, Iris (Kate Winslet) is still in love with Jasper Bloom (Rufus Sewell), her co-worker at a London publishing house, despite his infidelity and exploitation of her feelings. However, during her company's Christmas party, Jasper announces that he is now engaged to Sarah Smith-Alcott, the woman with whom he cheated on Iris, and Iris is crushed. This prompts her to do a home exchange with Amanda, (Cameron Diaz) in Malibu, California where she becomes friends with Miles (Jack Black), who is involved with an actress named Maggie (Shannyn Sossamon).
Margot at the Wedding
November 16, 2007
Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a successful but neurotic writer who brings her 11-year-old son Claude (Zane Pais) to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on the eve of her wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black). Margot disapproves of Pauline's choice of fiancé, which causes tension between the two sisters.
Margot at the Wedding
November 16, 2007
Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a successful but neurotic writer who brings her 11-year-old son Claude (Zane Pais) to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on the eve of her wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black). Margot disapproves of Pauline's choice of fiancé, which causes tension between the two sisters.
Pregnant
January 1, 2008
In January 2008, Black announced that Haden is currently expecting their second child.
Be Kind Rewind
Feburary 22, 2008
Mike (Mos Def) is working at a declining VHS rental store called Be Kind Rewind in Passaic, New Jersey. Mike's best friend Jerry (Jack Black) accompanies Mike while he works at the video store. Mike is fascinated by the story that Fats Waller, the legendary jazz musician, was born in the very store (according to the store's owner, Mr. Fletcher). Fletcher (Danny Glover) is informed by Passaic town officials that his store is scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a new building complex, unless he can raise funds to renovate his building. Mr. Fletcher decides to get ideas on how to increase business by spying on a successful chain of DVD rental stores. He puts Mike in charge of Be Kind Rewind while he is away. While leaving by train he writes as last-minute instruction on the window "keep Jerry out". Mike sees this in mirror image, and needs some time to decipher it.
