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Trivia
Birth name: Thomas Black
Date of birth: 28 August 1969
Place of birth: Hermosa Beach, California, USA
Nickname: JB, Jables
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Member of the band Tenacious D.
Dating Laura Kightlinger [1997]
Filmed a television pilot called Heat Vision and Jack (1999) (TV)
co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben
Stiller. The show was a parody of "Knight Rider" (1982),
as well as other action/ adventure shows, and featured a talking
motorcycle voiced by Owen
Wilson.
Discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover
seder.
Revealed on an Australian late night variety show that his favorite KISS
rock song is 1982's "I Love it Loud," where he began singing
parodied lyrics to the first verse.
Often competes for the same parts with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the
The School of Rock (2003) DVD audio commentary, he jokingly calls
Hoffman "my nemesis."
Shares a birthday with Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes and Daniel Stern.
Born on the same day as Jason Priestley.
Attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.
Is a member of, what the media refers to as the Frat Pack along with
Will Ferrell, Ben
Stiller, Vince
Vaughn, Owen
Wilson, and Luke Wilson. The Frat Pack name is a reference to the
film Old School (2003), which features Vaughn, Ferrell, and Wilson, due
to the wide number of films featuring the six actors. Black's "Frat
Pack" films include The Cable Guy (1996), Envy (2004), and
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).
Starred in a management training film "Manager of the Year -
Effective Listening (1987)" as a teenager who tells his father that
the family car has been stolen.
Had his gall bladder removed.
Hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 2002 along with Sarah
Michelle Gellar
Sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).
One of his closest friends is David Grohl.
Is good friends with Tim Robbins.
Attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.
Despite poking fun at the genre, he is actually a very knowledgeable fan
of a lot hard rock/metal music from the 1970s and 1980s. He even appears
as part of Tenacious D in the Ronnie James Dio video for the song
"Push."
Appears in a parody of the Council of Elrond scene shown during the MTV
movie awards. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson later cast him in
King Kong (2005).
His parents, who were both rocket scientists, divorced when Black was
10.
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