30 Facts About Johnny Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and its subsequent movies.

Johnny Knoxville has had acting roles in films Men in Black II, A Dirty Shame and Walking Tall, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Ringer, and a cameo role as a sleazy corporate president of a skateboard company in Lords of Dogtown, The Last Stand, Skiptrace, and the television series Reboot.

Johnny Knoxville voiced Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Johnny Knoxville was born Philip John Clapp in Johnny Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 11,1971, the son of Sunday school teacher Lemoyne and car and tire salesman Philip Clapp.

Johnny Knoxville played in the Knoxville Area All Star game as a pitcher.

Johnny Knoxville began appearing in commercials and as an extra, including a job as Keanu Reeves' stand-in on the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Johnny Knoxville is responsible for many of the ideas in Jackass, and is often seen as the de facto leader of the crew.

Johnny Knoxville starred in Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D, Jackass 3.5, Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5.

Johnny Knoxville participated in the Gumball 3000 for Jackass along with co-stars Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jackass director Jeff Tremaine, and cinematographer Dimitry Elyashkevich.

Johnny Knoxville's original leading role debut was set to be a holiday comedy released in late 2001 named The Tree but the project never came to fruition.

Johnny Knoxville has been in several feature films, such as The Dukes of Hazzard and playing a two-headed alien in Men in Black II.

Johnny Knoxville worked with John Waters in A Dirty Shame, and appeared as a supporting character to The Rock in Walking Tall that same year.

Johnny Knoxville starred in Katrina Holden Bronson's Daltry Calhoun in 2005, and in The Ringer as an office worker who pretends to be disabled and joins the Special Olympics to pay for surgery for his office's janitor.

Johnny Knoxville starred in the movie Lords of Dogtown as Topper Burks, made a minor appearance in the 2000 movie Coyote Ugly, and was featured as a guest voice on two episodes of King of the Hill.

Johnny Knoxville appeared in the John Madden-directed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, Killshot his character was removed from the final cut of the film.

Johnny Knoxville guest-starred in a season 3 episode "Prank Wars" on Viva La Bam, in which he and Ryan Dunn trashed Bam Margera's Hummer and performed other pranks.

Johnny Knoxville voiced himself in an episode of Family Guy.

Johnny Knoxville co-produced The Dudesons in America and the now-canceled Nitro Circus on MTV.

In 2010, Johnny Knoxville hosted a three-part online video for Palladium Boots titled Detroit Lives.

Johnny Knoxville voiced Leonardo in the 2014 film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but did not appear in the sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

Johnny Knoxville has a production company called Dickhouse Productions, which he owns and operates with Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze of the Jackass franchise.

Johnny Knoxville later appeared as the guest star on the October 4,2010, episode of Raw in Wichita, Kansas.

On January 1,2022, at WWE's Day 1 pay-per-view, Johnny Knoxville announced he would be at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view as a participant in the event's signature namesake match.

Johnny Knoxville entered the Royal Rumble at number 9 and was eliminated by Zayn.

Johnny Knoxville can be heard in the credits for Jackass Number Two, is seen in "The Making of Jackass Two" on the special features on the DVD, and was seen punching Tremaine with a boxing glove in the credits of Jackass 3D.

On February 4,2009, Johnny Knoxville explained on The Howard Stern Show that he tore his urethra during a stunt for Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel, describing how he had to flush it twice daily.

Johnny Knoxville said this was done by "sticking a tube into [his] penis all the way up to [his] bladder", a practice known as urinary catheterization.

Johnny Knoxville said the process prevented scar tissue from forming and performed the procedure "twice a day for three and a half years" after the injury.

On June 17,2022, it was reported that Johnny Knoxville had filed for divorce.

Johnny Knoxville was sued again in May 2024 for allegedly tazing a segment producer during the filming of The Prank Panel.