Jack Black Biography

Film actor Jack Black appeared in the popular comedy films Shallow Hal, High Fidelity and Tropic Thunder, and is the voice of Kung Fu Panda.

Jack Black was born on August 28, 1969, in Santa Monica, California. His breakthrough role was in High Fidelity (2000), and he soon after co-starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal in 2001. His animated film project Kung Fu Panda scored big at the box office in 2008—the same year that Black appeared in the comedy Tropic Thunder. In 2009, he starred in Year One, and more recently, he appeared in Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Big Year.