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Christopher Julius Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie (Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped, and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own father was a preacher.

Rock has been in stand-up comedy for several decades. He made his big screen debut in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and spent three years on the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975). He does commercials for 1-800 Collect and Nike and covered the presidential campaign for the show Politically Incorrect (1993). He lives in Alpine, New Jersey.

Tim began a college career in computer science, however he took a speech class which offered extra credit to help out the College's production of The Persecution & Assasination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed By The Inmates of Charenton Assylum Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (apparently some of the original cast members had some emotional and/or psychological issues with the content of the play). Tim played the "Mad Animal" inmate and managed to literally attack the audience. He was hooked & changed to a theatrical degree, he went on to both stage and film roles. Tim left SC in 1981 and lived for three years on the Italian island of Sardinia in the Mediteranean. There he perfected his high school French and learned to speak Italian as well. After Italy Tim lived in San Diego, CA for 5 years where he worked at Scripp's Clinic & Research Foundation where he started out as a janitor and left with the position of Lead Medical Secretary and Clerical Trainer. San Diego introduced him to the world of film when he got a part as a papparazi in that great film classic, Killer Tomatoes Eat France. Ever restless he was offered a position at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and Tim became the administrative assistant to the director of the Department of Technology Development and Clinical Trials. Los Angeles offered Tim the role of a Zombie on the Universal Studios Backlot where he again had the pleasure of attacking in audience on their Halloween Haunted Tram. Tim later moved to Dallas where he had starring roles as Orville Turnover in Daddy's Dying Who's Got the Will, Madame de Grappeline in Rene de O'Baldia's play The Late, Mr. Keller in a Young Actor's Television Workshop Production of A Trip to Twisted Oak Street and Ludy in a PBS televised 30 minute film, Baby Makes Three. He also appeared in many episodes of Walk er, Texas Ranger & numerous other films and movies of the week that shot in Texas.