- Born
- Birth nameThomas Jacob Black
- Nicknames
- JB
- Jables
- Jack
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black was born on August 28, 1969 in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hermosa Beach, California to Judith Love Cohen & Thomas William Black, both satellite engineers. He is of Russian Jewish & British-German ancestry. Black attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins' acting troupe & 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) & his rock-comedy band, Tenacious D have created an ever-growing cult following.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseTanya Haden(March 14, 2006 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- ParentsThomas William Black
- Starts speaking in a slow, quiet tempo and begins to sing in a faster louder cadence.
- Often plays slackers or sloppy infantiles
- Expressive eyes/eyebrows
- Stocky frame
- Deep husky voice.
- Originally met his wife in high school. They both attended Crossroads, a private school. They met again 15 years after they graduated high school at a friend's birthday party.
- His parents, Judith Lois (Cohen) and Thomas William Black, who were rocket scientists, divorced when Black was 10. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, worked on the Hubble space telescope.
- One of his closest friends is Dave Grohl.
- Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his wife Tanya Haden gave birth to their son Samuel Jason Black on June 10, 2006.
- Wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.
- [on filming the love scene in Shallow Hal (2001)] It was just strictly professional. It was like a doctor or a carpenter plying his trade. I received no pleasure whatsoever... I requested 32 takes for the perfection of the craft.
- Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one, my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
- [on co-starring with Gwyneth Paltrow for the first time in Shallow Hal (2001)] You know, I WAS a little afraid that she would fall head-over-heels in love with me, like she did [when co-starring] with Brad Pitt in Se7en (1995).
- I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
- I was a little worried about working with kids. I wanted to make sure we didn't approach it tip-toeing around the stuff that would normally be funny, or make it gentle, rock-a-bye-baby bullshit.
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) - $5,000,000
- Orange County (2002) - $2,000,000
- Shallow Hal (2001) - $2,000,000
- Saving Silverman (2001) - $1,000,000
- High Fidelity (2000) - $250,000
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