1. Christopher Julius Rock was born on February 7,1965 and is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker.
60 Facts About Chris Rock
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Chris Rock's success branched off into productions in film, television, and on-stage, having received multiple accolades including three Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Chris Rock ranked No 5 on Rolling Stones list of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time.
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Chris Rock reached mainstream stardom with Bring the Pain in 1996.
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Chris Rock developed, wrote, produced and narrated the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which was based on his early life.
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Chris Rock was cast in starring film roles in Lethal Weapon 4, Dogma, The Longest Yard, the Madagascar franchise, I Think I Love My Wife, Grown Ups, Death at a Funeral, Top Five, The Week Of, Spiral, Amsterdam, and Rustin.
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Chris Rock has taken roles on television including Empire, Kevin Can Wait, and Fargo.
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Chris Rock has hosted the Academy Awards twice; in 2005 and 2016, and was involved in a highly controversial incident in which he was slapped on stage by Will Smith at the 2022 Awards.
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Chris Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina, on February 7,1965.
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Chris Rock's mother, Rosalie, was a teacher and social worker for people with developmental disabilities; his father, Julius Rock, was a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman.
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Chris Rock is the eldest of his parents' seven children, and he had an older paternal half-brother, Charles Ledell Chris Rock, who died in 2006 after suffering from alcoholism.
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Chris Rock was bused to schools in predominantly white neighborhoods of Brooklyn, where he endured bullying and beatings from white students.
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Chris Rock dropped out of high school altogether, but he later earned a General Educational Development.
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Chris Rock then worked various jobs at fast-food restaurants including Red Lobster.
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Chris Rock began working as a stand-up comic during 1984 in New York City's Catch a Rising Star.
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Chris Rock rose up the ranks of the comedy circuit in addition to earning bit roles in the film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and the TV series Miami Vice.
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Chris Rock was a cast member of the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1993.
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Chris Rock then wrote and starred in the low-budget comedy CB4, which made $18 million against its budget of $6 million.
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Chris Rock signed on as client of 3 Arts Entertainment.
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Chris Rock headlined his first HBO comedy special in 1994, titled Big Ass Jokes, as part of HBO Comedy Half-Hour.
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Chris Rock won two Emmy Awards for the special and gained large critical acclaim.
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Chris Rock was the voice for the "Lil Penny" puppet who was the alter ego to basketball star Penny Hardaway in a series of Nike shoe commercials from 1994 to 1998, and hosted the '97 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Chris Rock's first music video was for his song "Your Mother's Got a Big Head" from his album Born Suspect.
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HBO aired his talk show, The Chris Rock Show, which gained critical acclaim for Rock's interviews with celebrities and politicians.
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Chris Rock began the decade with supporting roles in such films as New Jack City as crack addict Pookie, in the Eddie Murphy comedy Boomerang, the Steve Martin comedy Sgt.
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Chris Rock appeared in the Kevin Smith fantasy comedy film Dogma.
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Chris Rock then starred in the dark comedy Nurse Betty starring Renee Zellweger, Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on May 11,2000.
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Chris Rock went on to star in films like The Longest Yard opposite Adam Sandler, and the action comedy film Bad Company opposite Anthony Hopkins.
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Chris Rock starred in two of the film's sequels, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
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In 2007 Chris Rock voiced Mooseblood the Mosquito in the Jerry Seinfeld animated film, Bee Movie.
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In 2009, Chris Rock released his first documentary, 2009's Good Hair.
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Chris Rock was nominated for the Gotham Award for Best Documentary and for the Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.
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Chris Rock has since stated working on a documentary about debt called Credit Is the Devil.
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Chris Rock produced the series Totally Biased with W Kamau Bell, which premiered in August 2012.
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In 2014, Chris Rock scripted, directed and starred in the film Top Five, which critics have drawn comparison to Woody Allen's Stardust Memories.
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Chris Rock's confident, prowling wit as a stand-up has finally found its way to the screen, enhanced by a bracing vulnerability.
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In 2015 Chris Rock attended the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC where he introduced and paid tribute to fellow comedian and former SNL cast member Eddie Murphy.
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Also in 2015, Rock appeared as himself in Sofia Coppola's Christmas musical special, A Very Murray Christmas starring Bill Murray.
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Chris Rock appeared as himself in another Netflix film, Sandy Wexler starring Adam Sandler.
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The first special, Chris Rock: Tamborine, was released on Netflix on February 14,2018.
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In 2020, Chris Rock portrayed central character Loy Cannon in the fourth season of the FX crime anthology series Fargo.
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Chris Rock wrote and is set to direct the upcoming film Misty Green, which debuts in November 2024 at the American Film Market.
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In February 2005, Chris Rock hosted the 77th Academy Awards ceremony.
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Chris Rock was criticized for referring to the Oscars as "idiotic", and asserting that heterosexual men do not watch them, in an interview prior to Oscar night.
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Chris Rock declined, stating at the ceremony that it would have accomplished little since the show would have proceeded anyway, with him simply replaced.
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Chris Rock presented the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 94th Academy Awards in March 2022.
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Chris Rock declined to file a report with the Los Angeles Police Department regarding the incident.
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Chris Rock has been an avid fan of the New York Mets baseball team since childhood.
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Chris Rock complained that his team "had no money" during a 2011 interview with David Letterman.
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Each time Chris Rock posted a selfie of the incident, without further comment as to the reason for the stops or whether he was issued a citation.
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Chris Rock said that it has led to "boring" and "unfunny" material from comedians.
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Chris Rock commented that there is an existing built-in mechanism for audiences informing comedians that their content does not work, like the audience not laughing at their jokes.
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Chris Rock has said that he was influenced by the performing style of his paternal grandfather, Allen Chris Rock, a preacher.
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Compton-Chris Rock is the founder and executive director of StyleWorks, a non-profit, full-service hair salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workforce.
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Chris Rock admitted to infidelity in the marriage, as well as struggling with a pornography addiction.
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On July 7,2022, it was reported that Chris Rock had started dating actress, screenwriter, and director Lake Bell.
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Chris Rock later self-identified as single in his 2023 Netflix special.
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On September 18,2020, Chris Rock said that he was diagnosed with a non-verbal learning disorder, a neurological condition that makes it difficult for him to understand non-verbal social cues.
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On September 19,2021, Chris Rock announced on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
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Chris Rock has appeared on numerous albums, including Method Man's Tical 2000, Prince Paul's A Prince Among Thieves, Ice Cube's War and Peace Vol.