Jack Black
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.\n\nBlack 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.
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- Born:
- Aug 28, 1969 In Santa Monica, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 244
- First Appeared:
- In the series Time Belt
- Latest Project:
- Movie A Minecraft Movie 2025-04-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Glorious Octagon Of Destiny | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Oh Hell No | Sherman | 2025 |
| Movie | A Minecraft Movie | Steve | 2025-04-02 |
| Series | Time Belt | Computerman | 2025 |
| Movie | Making Of School of Rock | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Stepdude | Sherman | 2025 |
| Movie | Dear Santa | Satan | 2025 |
| Movie | Micronations | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Live at the Mann Center | Self | 2025 |
| Movie | Anaconda | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda 4 | Po (voice) | 2024-03-02 |
| Movie | ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord | Self | 2024-03-23 |
| Movie | Dueling Dumplings | Po (voice) | 2024-04-09 |
| Movie | Borderlands | Claptrap (voice) | 2024-08-07 |
| Series | History of the World: Part II | Joseph Stalin | 2023-03-06 |
| Movie | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Bowser (voice) | 2023-04-05 |
| Movie | Free LSD | (Special Appearance) | 2023-01-20 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Rock Am Ring 2023 | Self | 2023-06-03 |
| Movie | Tenacious D and the Spicy Meatball Tour | JB | 2023-05-03 |
| Movie | Tenacious D Live Rock am Ring | Self | 2023-06-07 |
| Movie | The Video Game Crash of 1983 | Self | 2023-10-21 |
| Series | Big Nate | Brad Gunter (voice) | 2022-02-17 |
| Movie | Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood | Grown Up Stan (voice) | 2022-03-24 |
| Movie | How Did We Get Here? | Self (archive footage) | 2022-02-28 |
| Movie | Dio: Dreamers Never Die | Self | 2022-09-28 |
| Movie | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Wolfman Jack | 2022-09-08 |
| Series | Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight | Po (voice) | 2022-07-14 |
| Series | Celebrity Wheel of Fortune | Self - Contestant | 2021-01-07 |
| Movie | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021-11-20 |
| Movie | One World: Together at Home | Self | 2020-04-18 |
| Series | Cup of Joe | Self | 2020-04-27 |
| Movie | Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story | Self | 2020-01-28 |
| Movie | Dear Class of 2020 | Self | 2020-06-07 |
| Series | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | Westley | 2020-06-29 |
| Movie | This is (not) the greatest song in the world. | JB | 2020-04-28 |
| Movie | Celebrity Escape Room | Self - Game Master | 2020-05-21 |
| Movie | Feeding America Comedy Festival | Self | 2020-05-10 |
| Series | JablinskiGames | Self | 2019-01-04 |
| Series | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Unknown | 2019-09-09 |
| Movie | Jumanji: The Next Level | Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon | 2019-12-04 |
| Series | The Mandalorian | Captain Bombardier | 2019-11-12 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Rock In Rio 2019 | Self | 2019-09-28 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor's Quest | Po (voice) | 2018-05-29 |
| Series | The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale | Self - Special Guest | 2018-02-18 |
| Movie | The Insufferable Groo | Self | 2018-06-07 |
| Movie | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot | Dexter | 2018-04-04 |
| Movie | The House with a Clock in Its Walls | Jonathan Barnavelt | 2018-09-15 |
| Series | Tenacious D in Post-Apocalypto | JB | 2018-09-28 |
| Series | Eli Roth's History of Horror | Unknown | 2018-10-14 |
| Movie | The Unexpected Race | Sheriff | 2018-10-14 |
| Movie | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | R. L. Stine (uncredited) | 2018-10-11 |
| Movie | The Polka King | Jan Lewan | 2017-01-22 |
| Movie | Tommy Can`t Sleep | Big Tommy | 2017-06-20 |
| Movie | The Words That Built America | Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence | 2017-07-04 |
| Movie | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon | 2017-12-09 |
| Series | The Gong Show | Self - Judge | 2017-06-22 |
| Series | The Russell Howard Hour | Self | 2017-09-21 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll | Po (voice) | 2016-01-05 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Po (voice) | 2016-01-23 |
| Series | Join or Die with Craig Ferguson | Unknown | 2016-02-18 |
| Series | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Self | 2016-02-08 |
| Series | Great Minds with Dan Harmon | Ludwig van Beethoven | 2016-02-25 |
| Movie | Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | Self | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson | Self | 2015-04-20 |
| Series | Hot Ones | Self | 2015-03-12 |
| Movie | The D Train | Dan Landsman | 2015-05-08 |
| Series | The Brink | Alex Talbot | 2015-06-21 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Series | Documentary Now! | Jamison Friend | 2015-08-20 |
| Movie | Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo! | Self | 2015-09-01 |
| Movie | Goosebumps | R.L. Stine | 2015-08-05 |
| Series | Another Period | Dan Ringley | 2015-06-23 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
| Series | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | 2014-02-06 |
| Movie | Harmontown | Self | 2014-03-08 |
| Movie | Heaven Adores You | Self | 2014-05-14 |
| Series | Welcome to Sweden | Self | 2014-03-21 |
| Movie | 21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor | 2014-11-07 |
| Movie | Sex Tape | YouPorn Owner (uncredited) | 2014-07-17 |
| Movie | The Sheik | 2014-04-26 | |
| Movie | The Concert for Valor | Self | 2014-11-11 |
| Series | Drunk History | Elvis Presley | 2013-07-09 |
| Series | Radio Disney Music Awards | Self - Presenter | 2013-04-27 |
| Series | The Birthday Boys | Unknown | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera | Dethklok's Original Manager / Fat Fan (voice) | 2013-10-27 |
| Series | Rick and Morty | Lithdor (voice) | 2013-12-02 |
| Series | Double Fine Adventure | Self | 2012-04-06 |
| Series | Good Mythical Morning | Self | 2012-01-09 |
| Movie | Bernie | Bernie Tiede | 2012-04-27 |
| Series | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Self | 2012-06-08 |
| Movie | Girl & Chocolate - Pretty Sweet | Self | 2012-11-16 |
| Movie | Dreamworks Holiday Classics | Po (voice) | 2012-10-30 |
| Movie | The Roadie | JB | 2012-05-09 |
| Series | The Eric Andre Show | Self | 2012-05-20 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Po (voice) | 2011-05-25 |
| Movie | Fight for Your Right Revisited | MCA (B-Boys 2) | 2011-04-22 |
| Movie | Conan O'Brien Can't Stop | Self | 2011-06-24 |
| Series | Brain Games | Self | 2011-10-09 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters | Po (voice) | 2011-12-12 |
| Movie | The Muppets | Jack Black (uncredited) | 2011-11-22 |
| Movie | The Big Year | Brad Harris | 2011-10-13 |
| Movie | Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage | Self | 2010-06-29 |
| Movie | Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010 | as JB | 2010-10-23 |
| Series | Conan | Self | 2010-11-08 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda Holiday | Po (voice) | 2010-11-26 |
| Movie | Gulliver's Travels | Lemuel Gulliver | 2010-12-23 |
| Movie | Year One | Zed | 2009-06-18 |
| Series | Chopped | Self | 2009-01-13 |
| Movie | We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self | 2009-01-18 |
| Series | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | 2009-07-16 |
| Series | Community | Buddy | 2009-09-17 |
| Series | The Jay Leno Show | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda | Po (voice) | 2008-06-04 |
| Series | Water And Power | The Mayor | 2008-04-27 |
| Movie | VH1 Rock Honors: The Who | Self | 2008-07-17 |
| Movie | D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary | Self | 2008-04-24 |
| Movie | Be Kind Rewind | Jerry | 2008-01-20 |
| Movie | Prop 8: The Musical | Jesus Christ | 2008-12-03 |
| Movie | Tropic Thunder | Jeff Portnoy | 2008-08-09 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five | Po (voice) | 2008-11-08 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks 2 | Self | 2008-11-04 |
| Movie | Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Jeff Portnoy | 2008-08-26 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Series | The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show | Unknown | 2007-01-17 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: For the Ladies | JB | 2007-02-27 |
| Series | Acceptable.tv | Unknown | 2007-03-23 |
| Movie | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Paul McCartney (uncredited) | 2007-12-21 |
| Movie | The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny' | Self | 2007-02-27 |
| Movie | Margot at the Wedding | Malcolm | 2007-11-16 |
| Series | iCarly | Aspartamay | 2007-09-08 |
| Movie | Nacho Libre | Nacho | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' | Self | 2006-11-14 |
| Movie | Awesometown | George Washington | 2006-01-23 |
| Series | Exposure | Dan Harmon | 2006-10-29 |
| Movie | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | JB | 2006-11-22 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Time Fixers | JB | 2006-11-14 |
| Movie | The Holiday | Miles Dumont | 2006-12-08 |
| Movie | The Eighth Blunder of the World | Self | 2006-11-14 |
| Series | The Office | Sam | 2005-03-24 |
| Movie | Club Oscar | Lenny (voice) | 2005-02-08 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | 2005-01-03 |
| Series | Infinite Challenge | Self | 2005-04-23 |
| Movie | A Concert for Hurricane Relief | Self - Presenter | 2005-09-02 |
| Movie | King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries | Self | 2005-12-13 |
| Movie | Earth to America | Self | 2005-11-20 |
| Movie | King Kong | Carl Denham | 2005-12-12 |
| Series | Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005-09-30 |
| Series | The Showbiz Show with David Spade | Unknown | 2005-09-17 |
| Series | Cracking Up | Unknown | 2004-03-09 |
| Series | Channel 101 | Self - Host | 2004-03-01 |
| Series | Live at Johnny's | Unknown | 2004-02-16 |
| Series | Laser Fart | The Elegant Hunter | 2004-03-29 |
| Movie | Shark Tale | Lenny (voice) | 2004-09-20 |
| Movie | The Present | Self | 2004-10-31 |
| Series | Tom Goes to the Mayor | Trapper JB (voice) | 2004-11-14 |
| Movie | Envy | Nick Vanderpark | 2004-04-30 |
| Movie | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Motorcyclist | 2004-06-28 |
| Series | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | 2003-06-04 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Emmys segment | 2003-01-26 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
| Series | Computerman | Computerman | 2003-06-30 |
| Movie | Melvin Goes to Dinner | Mental Patient (uncredited) | 2003-12-04 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: In the Studio | Self | 2003-11-04 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks | Self | 2003-11-04 |
| Movie | School of Rock | Dewey Finn | 2003-10-03 |
| Movie | Ice Age | Zeke (voice) | 2002-03-10 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Butt Baby | JB | 2002-04-05 |
| Movie | Run Ronnie Run | Lead Chimney Sweep | 2002-01-20 |
| Series | Last Call with Carson Daly | Self | 2002-01-08 |
| Series | Icons | Unknown | 2002-05-01 |
| Movie | Orange County | Lance Brumder | 2002-01-11 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Rock Star Sperm for Sale | JB | 2002-10-20 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: Live in London | Self | 2002-11-03 |
| Movie | The Lewis Lectures | Lewis (voice) | 2002-12-05 |
| Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
| Series | Clone High | Pusher / Larry Hardcore (voice) | 2002-11-02 |
| Movie | Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up | Self | 2002-07-02 |
| Movie | Lord of the Piercing | Jack the Elf | 2002-06-06 |
| Series | American Idol | Self | 2002-06-11 |
| Series | The Andy Dick Show | J.D | 2001-02-27 |
| Movie | Tenacious D: JB's BJ | JB | 2001-09-20 |
| Movie | Saving Silverman | J.D. McNugent | 2001-02-09 |
| Movie | Being 'Shallow Hal' | Self | 2001-11-06 |
| Movie | Shallow Hal | Hal | 2001-11-01 |
| Series | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Reel Comedy: Shallow Hal | Self | 2001-11-06 |
| Movie | Jesus' Son | Georgie | 2000-06-16 |
| Movie | High Fidelity | Barry Judd | 2000-03-17 |
| Series | Heat Vision and Jack | Jack Austin | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | The Love Letter | Fisherman (uncredited) | 1999-05-21 |
| Movie | Cradle Will Rock | Sid | 1999-12-10 |
| Movie | Heat Vision and Jack | Jack Austin | 1999-01-10 |
| Movie | Johnny Skidmarks | Jerry | 1998-01-18 |
| Movie | Bongwater | Devlin | 1998-04-18 |
| Movie | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer | Titus Telesco (uncredited) | 1998-11-13 |
| Movie | Enemy of the State | Fiedler | 1998-11-20 |
| Series | Will & Grace | Dr. Isaac Hershberg | 1998-09-21 |
| Series | The View | Self | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | The Jackal | Ian Lamont | 1997-11-14 |
| Series | Tenacious D | Jack 'JB' Black | 1997-11-28 |
| Movie | Crossworlds | Steve | 1996-02-14 |
| Movie | Bio-Dome | Tenacious D | 1996-01-12 |
| Movie | The Cable Guy | Rick | 1996-06-10 |
| Movie | Mars Attacks! | Billy Glenn Norris | 1996-12-13 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | The Fan | Broadcast Technician | 1996-08-15 |
| Series | Pride & Joy | Man | 1995-03-21 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Love | DJ at Party | 1995-03-16 |
| Movie | Waterworld | Pilot | 1995-07-28 |
| Series | The Single Guy | Randy | 1995-09-21 |
| Movie | Dead Man Walking | Craig Poncelet | 1995-12-29 |
| Series | Mr. Show with Bob and David | Gay Guy / Moviegoer | 1995-11-03 |
| Series | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Unknown | 1994-04-15 |
| Movie | Blind Justice | Private | 1994-06-25 |
| Series | Monty | Doug | 1994-01-11 |
| Movie | The NeverEnding Story III | Slip | 1994-10-26 |
| Movie | The Innocent | Marty Prago | 1994-09-25 |
| Series | All-American Girl | Tommy | 1994-09-14 |
| Series | Touched by an Angel | Monte | 1994-09-21 |
| Movie | Marked for Murder | Car Thief | 1993-01-17 |
| Series | The X-Files | Bart 'Zero' Liquori | 1993-09-10 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
| Movie | Demolition Man | Wasteland Scrap | 1993-10-08 |
| Movie | Airborne | Augie | 1993-09-17 |
| Series | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Self | 1992-06-10 |
| Movie | Bob Roberts | Roger Davis | 1992-09-04 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Series | Picket Fences | Curtis Williams | 1992-09-18 |
| Series | The Golden Palace | Cab Driver | 1992-09-18 |
| Series | Great Scott! | Ray | 1992-10-04 |
| Series | Northern Exposure | Kevin Wilkins | 1990-07-12 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Milo (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Life Goes On | Skinhead | 1989-09-12 |
| Series | This Morning | Self | 1988-10-03 |
| Movie | Too Far from the Norm | Rick | 1987-01-01 |
| Series | Kids' Choice Awards | Host | 1987-01-18 |
| Series | The New Leave It to Beaver | Nick | 1984-11-08 |
| Series | MTV Video Music Awards | Self - Host | 1984-09-14 |
| Series | The Fall Guy | Chuck | 1981-11-04 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 1975-10-11 |
| Movie | Lonelyhearts | Jerry | 1959-03-04 |
| Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |