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Jack Black Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
How much does Jack Black make and what is his net worth?
American actor, comedian, voice actor, writer, musician, and director Jack Black has a net worth of $50 million. Most people know Jack Black for his comedic parts in movies. He is also a good singer and one of the people who started the band Tenacious D, which has won many awards. Jack Black has started his own YouTube channel and film production business in addition to acting and making music.
Category:
Richest Celebrities › Richest Comedians
Net Worth:
$50 Million
Date of Birth:
Aug 28, 1969 (53 years old)
Place of Birth:
Santa Monica
Gender:
Male
Height:
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Profession:
Actor, Film Producer, Television producer, Screenwriter, Comedian, Voice Actor, Musician, Record producer, Presenter, Writer
Nationality:
United States of America
Early Years
Jack Black was born on August 28, 1969, and his real name is Thomas Jacob Black. Black was brought up in Santa Monica, California, by a Jewish family. Both of his parents were engineers who worked on satellites. His mother wrote books that were published and worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Black's parents split up when he was ten years old, and he moved to Culver City to live with his father.
Jack Black had a hard time in high school. At 14, he started using drugs and hanging out with the wrong kind of people. He later said that he wanted to leave high school because some people want to "kill him." He ended up going to the Poseidon School, which was a place for kids who didn't do well in the regular school system. Jack Black later went to the Crossroads School to study acting. After he finished high school, Jack Black went to UCLA for a short time before pulling out to become an actor.
Career in Acting
Jack Black's first big acting job was an ad for the video game Pitfall when he was 13 years old. Then, he joined the Actors' Gang, which was a theatre group. Most of the people in the group went to UCLA, and Tim Robbins was one of them. Jack Black got his start as an adult actor with small parts in TV shows like Life Goes On, Mr. Show, and The X-Files.
In 1992, Jack Black was in a fake documentary called Bob Roberts. This led to him getting supporting parts in films like Airborne, Demolition Man, Waterworld, The Fan, The Cable Guy, Mars Attacks!, Dead Man Walking, The Jackal, Crossworlds, and Enemy of the State in the 1990s. In 2000, Jack Black got his big break when he played a bigger part in High Fidelity. He played a record store worker who was John Cusack's friend. The part showed how funny Black could be.
Because of how well he did in High Fidelity, Black got his first leading parts. In 2001, he played the main role in the movie Shallow Hal, which made over $140 million worldwide at the box office. He was nominated for a Golden Globe and got a lot of praise for his lead part in School of Rock. Even though Jack Black is best known for his comedic parts, films like King Kong from 2005 show that he can also do well in dramatic roles.
In the movie Nacho Libre, which he starred in and helped make in 2006, Jack Black had another well-known lead part. Black was in movies like Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Year One, and Gulliver's Travels for the rest of the 2000s. In 2011, Jack Black was in two films that got a lot of attention: The Big Year and Bernie. Critics praised Jack Black's acting in the second movie a lot, and it has been called one of the best of 2011.
The Kung Fu Panda series is one of Jack Black's most successful picture series. In all three cartoon movies, Black was the voice of the main character. Black has said that this is one of his favourite roles of all time. The first Kung Fu Panda made $20 million on its first day, and it went on to make over $630 million worldwide. The next two films did about the same, which is why the whole series made more than $1.7 billion.
Jack Black has also been in movies like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level, which were both very well-known. Also, Jack Black played Jeff Portnoy in Tropic Thunder. Jeff is a comedian who is hooked to drugs and gets a part in the movie within the movie. Critics loved Jack Black's part in Tropic Thunder, just like they loved the roles of Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, and Tom Cruise.
Since he became a big Hollywood star, Jack Black has been in a number of TV shows besides films. Black has been a guest star on The Office, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Community, iCarly, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jack Black has also been in charge of the Spike Video Games Awards and the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Jack Black has done voice work for a lot of different TV shows and video games besides Kung Fu Panda.
Career in Music
Jack Black is a famous musician who plays in the band Tenacious D. He is the lead singer and guitarist for the band, and they have put out four records. Self-titled was the name of their first record, which came out in 2001. The Pick of Destiny came out in 2006, Rize of the Phoenix came out in 2012, and Post-Apocalypto came out in 2018. Bands like the Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Tool, and Beck are often on tour with Tenacious D. People have called their music "mock-rock."
Further Ventures
In 2006, Jack Black started Electric Dynamite Productions, Inc., his own business for making movies. The production company has worked on a number of TV shows and films, and Jack Black has been in a few of them.
Jack Black also started a YouTube account called Jablonski Games in 2018. As of 2020, almost 5 million people watch the service. In 2019, Black did a Minecraft stream with the most popular YouTuber PewDiePie to raise money for a mental health cause.
Personal Life
In 2006, Jack Black married Tanya Haden, who was the daughter of the famous jazz singer Charlie Haden. The two people knew each other from high school. Later, Jack Black and his wife had two kids, and they decided to raise them as Jews. Jack Black is a Democrat, and in the past he has backed Barack Obama. In 2018, Jack Black got his own star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
Real Estate
Over the years, Jack has bought and sold a number of nice LA houses. Tax records show that his main home is a house in Los Angeles's Los Feliz neighborhood that he bought from musician Flea for $6 million in 2010. He seems to still own the $3 million home he bought in Beverly Hills in 2005.
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