| Jméno: | Jack Black |
| Datum narození: | 1969-08-28 |
| Místo narození: | Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Výška: | 1.68 m |
| IMDb ID: | nm0085312 |
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and songwriter. Black is known for his roles in the films High Fidelity (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), Orange County (2002), School of Rock (2003), Envy (2004), Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bernie (2011) and The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), in addition to his role in the Jumanji franchise. He also voices the giant panda named Po from DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda films. He gained Golden Globe nominations for his work in School of Rock and Bernie, and he was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2018.nnBlack is also the lead vocalist of the Grammy Award–winning comedy rock duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long time friend, Kyle Gass. They have released multiple studio albums including their self titled debut Tenacious D, The Pick of Destiny, Rize of the Fenix, and Post-Apocalypto, in addition to their television series Tenacious D (1997–2000) and film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006). Since 2018, Black has maintained a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games.
- 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.
- One half of the rock band Tenacious D alongside friend and collaborator Kyle Gass.
- Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie 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".
- 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.
- 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 Cable Guy (1996), Envy (2004), and Zprávař: Příběh Rona Burgundyho (2004).
- Often competes for the same roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the DVD audio commentary for Škola ro(c)ku (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 Červený drak (2002), which went to Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Is good friends with Tim Robbins, Cesar Gonzalez and Will Smith.
- 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.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6144 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 18, 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Was engaged to actor/comedian/producer Laura Kightlinger, previously. They were together from 1997 to 2005.
- Hosted the MTV Movie Awards along with Sarah Michelle Gellar (2002).
- Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.
- Mentioned in the song "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup, as "the clown".
- Was a guitarist in the group Tenacious D.
- Mother Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer, helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.
- Auditioned for the role of Cubby Barnes in Výkupné (1996), which went to Donnie Wahlberg.
- Had his gall bladder removed.
- Done commentary for a pro wrestling event.
- He and Kirsten Dunst were considered for Zeme ztracených (2009). Black was in Jumanji: Vítejte v džungli! (2017) and Dunst was in Jumanji (1995).
- Born on the same date as Jason Priestley.
- Born at 3:04 AM (PDT).
