Born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

He is 1'68.
Jack Black is the son of American actor and musician, telecommunications engineers Thomas
William Black and Judith Cohen.

He attended the University of Los Angeles, where he met and performed with Kyle Glass in a
theater company called The Actors Gang and formed the rock duo Tenacious D.
This musical project features humor and sound inspired by Black Sabbath and his favorite band,
AC/DC.

The first driving force behind Blake's acting career was Tim Robbins, with whom he worked at his
theatre company.

Thanks also to Robbins, the California musician and performer who made his film debut in Citizen
Bob Roberts (1992).

After supporting film careers in the 1990s, including things like...

"The Death Penalty" (1995), again directed by Tim Robbins.
'Un Loco A Domicilio' (1996), a comedy directed by Ben Stiller...
Mystery (1997) by Tony Scott.
The Jackal (1997), a film directed by Michael Caton-Jones...
Jack Black rose to fame as Barry in High Fidelity (2000), an adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel and
directed by Stephen Frears, who starred alongside John Cusack and Todd Louis co-stars.

From that moment on, Blake became a star, appearing in the following comedies:

Blind Love (2001), directed by brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
School of Rock (2003), a musical comedy directed by Richard Linklater.

He also starred in Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) and Super Nacho (2006), a comedy in which he
played a priest dedicated to wrestling.

In Margot and the Wedding (2007), he's Malcolm, an unemployed artist who could be Nicole
Kidman's brother-in-law.

In Rewind Please (2008), he played Jerry, a man with a magnetized brain erasing tapes from a
video store. He remade all the deleted movies with his friend Mos Def.