Place of birth: Andrews, South Carolina (USA)
Biography:
He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
An award-winning and critically acclaimed actor, he is considered an innovator who has redefined the concept of comedy for his comments on race, relationships, and society. The comedian has won three Emmys, two Grammy Awards. He has also managed to be the cover image of many national publications and has worked for HBO with great success on various television achievements.
Through his experience he has managed to hone his comedy skills and fulfill his dream when he joins the cast of the show “Saturday Night Live” for three years since 1989.
He was commended when he was proposed and agreed to host the seventy-seventh annual Academy Awards celebration.
His voice has been captured on the big screen in the animated film “Madagascar,” in which Ben Stiller, Andy Richter, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer will also participate with their voices. We have also seen Rock in “From Incompetent to President” in which he also made his directorial debut for DreamWorks.
With his credits to “Bigger & Blacker”, “Big Ass Jokes” and “Bring the Pain”, he garnered numerous Grammy, Emmy and a CableAce Award.
Due to the success of his two award-winning specials, he is given the chance to perform “The Chris Rock Show,” a work that ran for four seasons on HBO and earned two Emmy nominations in 1999 as a screenwriter and host, and had the pleasure of receiving the award for best screenplay.
The first book, Rock This, was published by Hyperion in 1997 and has become a bestseller.
Filmography:
- Paparazzi (2006)
- The Clan of the Bonebreakers (2005)
- From incompetent to president (2003, actor, director and screenwriter)
- 9 days (2002)
- Osmosis Jones (2001)
- Back to Earth (2001)
- Dogma (1999)
- Chasing Betty (1999)
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
- The Fighting Sausage (1997)
- Cells block 4 (1993, actor and screenwriter)
- Boomerang, the prince of women (1992)
- Superdetective in Hollywood II (1987)
Discography:
- Born Suspect (1991)
- Bring the Pain (1996)
- Roll With the New (1997)
- Bigger & Blacker (1999)
- Never Scared (2005)