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Jack Black was born on August 28, 1969, in Santa Monica, California. His breakthrough role came in 2000’s High Fidelity, and he starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in 2001’s Shallow Hal, before headlining the widely praised School of Rock in 2003. Black’s animated film project Kung Fu Panda scored big at the box office in 2008 — the same year the actor appeared in the comedy Tropic Thunder. More recently he appeared in R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps (2015) and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). Black also serves as one half of the Grammy-winning comedy rock duo Tenacious D.
In Robbins’ political spoof Bob Roberts (1992), Black had a small but critically noted role as a fanatical supporter of the titular presidential hopeful. He went on to land a steady stream of bit parts in feature attractions such as Waterworld (1995), Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), The Jackal (1997), Enemy of the State (1998) and Cradle Will Rock (1999). But it was in more independently oriented projects that Black’s talents were given free rein. His brief turn in HBO’s Mr. Show and his critically acclaimed performance as a pill-popping hospital attendant in Jesus’ Son (1999) bolstered his reputation as a comic force.