Who is Jack Black?
Jack Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe and it was through this collaboration that led to his 1992 film debut in Bob Roberts (1992). Although he was just a background voice in his first film, Jack's appearances in such television shows as The X Files (1993), his breakthrough performance in High Fidelity (2000) and his rock-comedy band, Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.
Overview
- Nicknames
- Tenacious D
Trivia
- One half of the rock band Tenacious D alongside friend and collaborator Kyle Gass.
- Often competes for the same roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the Blu-ray audio commentary for School of Rock (2003), he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis". He was later considered for the role of Freddy Lounds in Red Dragon (2002), which went to Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- 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 because of the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Black's "Frat Pack" films include The Cable Guy (1996), Envy (2004) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).
- 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".
- 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.