Jack Black Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Jack Black
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Jack Black’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards he has won and watch photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF JACK BLACK

Age: 51 years old
Height: 168 cm
Born in: Hermosa Beach, California, United States
Born on: 08/28/1969

Spouse: Tanya Haden (born 2006)

JACK BLACK BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Jacob Black, known simply as Jack Black, he was born the August 28, 1969 in Hermosa Beach, a small town in California located a few kilometers from Los Angeles. When he was ten his parents divorced and Jack moved to Culver City with his father. The first engagement was at the age of thirteen with an appearance in the video game commercial Pitfall!. During the years of his youth Black changed several schools, always showing a great interest in dramaturgy, so much so that his passion soon took him to the first television sets. In fact, Black’s career begins with some participation in episodes of TV series such as X-Files, A doctor among the bears or The Brock family.

At the cinema he made his debut with a small role in Bob Roberts (1992), satirical comedy by Tim Robbins, followed by other minor parts in Demolition Man (1993) and Rollerblades – On the wings of the wind (1993). These are followed by increasingly more important films, in which the actor plays the role of the most important characters, starting with that of the military in Mars Attacks! (1996) up to that of the gunsmith Lamont in The Jackal (1997). After secondary parts in successful films such as Public enemy (1998), The price of freedom (1999) and High infidelty (2000), the starring role finally arrives for him with Love at first oversight (2001) with Gwyneth Paltrow.

From this moment on, his career started at full speed with leading roles in comedies School of Rock (2003), The envy of my best friend (2004), Teneciaus D and the destiny of rock (2006) and Super Nacho (2006). It also shines with the remake of King Kong (2005) of Peter Jackson as eccentric director Carl Denham, and shares the set with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet is Jude Law neither Love does not go on vacation (2006). In 2007 he is again in a movie that is about rock with Walk Hard – The Dewey Cox Story (2007), where he plays Paul McCartney. In the same year he is the protagonist of the parodies Be Kind Rewind – The Ghostbusters (2007) and Tropic Thunder (2008). The end in the first decade of the 2000s sees him engaged in Year one (2009) and Gulliver’s Fantastic Travels (2010).

He appears in a cameo in the film The Muppets (2011) and later is the main character of the play A year of lions (2011) and Bernie (2011). In 2014 he is the owner of YouPorn trying to help Diaz e Jason Segel in Sex Tape – Gone on the net. The following year he returned to TV with the series The Brink (2015), a satire on the geopolitical crisis that affects the different characters of the drama. At the cinema, however, he first plays the role of writer Robert Lawrence Stine in Little shivers (2015), a role with which it appears briefly also in the sequel Goosebumps 2 – The ghosts of Halloween (2018), then those of prof. Shelly Oberon in Jumanji – Welcome to the jungle (2017). In 2018 Gus Van Sant wants him next to Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill is Rooney Mara in Don’t Worry, while Eli Roth chooses him to play the magical sorcerer Jonathan Barnavelt in his first fantasy film, The mystery of the house of the time.