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Jack Black
Known for: ActingThomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023–present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for best metal performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
+4
as Bowser (voice) 
A Minecraft Movie
+4
as Steve 
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
+7
as Bowser (voice) 
Ice Age
+5
as Zeke (voice) 
Kung Fu Panda
+5
as Po (voice) 
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
as Po (voice) 
Kung Fu Panda 4
+6
as Po (voice) 
Kung Fu Panda 2
+4
as Po (voice) 
Jumanji: The Next Level
+7
as Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon 
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
+10
as Bethany 
The Holiday
+5
as Miles 
Kung Fu Panda 3
+4
as Po (voice) 
Shark Tale
+4
as Lenny (voice) 
Tropic Thunder
+13
as Jeff Portnoy 
King Kong
+4
as Carl Denham 
Borderlands
+9
as Claptrap (voice) 
The Cable Guy
+8
as Rick 
Enemy of the State
+4
as Fiedler 
Goosebumps
+7
as Stine / Slappy / Invisible Boy (voice) 
Mars Attacks!
+7
as Billy Glenn Norris 
Anaconda
+5
as Doug McCallister 
The School of Rock
+15
as Dewey Finn 
Waterworld
+6
as Pilot 
The Jackal
+2
as Ian Lamont 
Nacho Libre
+10
as Nacho 
Shallow Hal
+2
as Hal Larson 
Dear Santa
+9
as Satan 
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
+2
as Titus Telesco (uncredited) 
Gulliver's Travels
+4
as Lemuel Gulliver 
Jumanji: Open World
as Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon 
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
as Po (voice) 
High Fidelity
+2
as Barry 
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
+4
as Jonathan Barnavelt 
Year One
+4
as Zed 
Tenacious D
+3
as Jack 'JB' Black 
The Brink
as Alex Talbot 
The Big Year
+3
as Brad Harris 
Orange County
+3
as Lance Brumder 
A Minecraft Movie Squared
as Steve 
Be Kind Rewind
+2
as Jerry 
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
as Po (voice) 
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
+1
as Dexter 
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
as Po (voice) 
Saving Silverman
+5
as J.D. McNugent 
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
as Po (voice) 
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
as Grown Up Stan (voice) 
The NeverEnding Story III
as Slip 
Margot at the Wedding
+4
as Malcolm 
Bernie
+13
as Bernie Tiede 
Cradle Will Rock
+4
as Sid 
The D Train
+11
as Dan Landsman 
Bio-Dome
+6
as Tenacious D 
Airborne
as Augie 
Envy
+3
as Nick Vanderpark 
The Polka King
as Jan Lewan 
The Words That Built America
+4
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence 
Blind Justice
as Private 
Happily
+2
Producer 
Harmontown
+1
as Self 
Jesus' Son
+6
as Georgie 
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor 
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
as Self 
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
+11
as Self 
How Did We Get Here?
+7
as Self (archive footage) 
Crossworlds
+6
as Steve 
Bongwater
as Devlin 
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera
as Dethklok's Original Manager / Fat Fan (voice) 
Free LSD
+7
as (Special Appearance) 
Dio: Dreamers Never Die
+1
as Self 
The Insufferable Groo
+9
as Self 
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
as Self - Actor 
Johnny Skidmarks
as Jerry 
The Sheik
+1
as Self 