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Thomas 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), 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.

Jack Black

Simon Pearson
for Simon Pearson in Red Dead Redemption II
Suggested by pipecacique

Red Dead Redemption II follows Arthur Morgan, a hardened outlaw and enforcer for the Van der Linde gang, as he navigates the collapse of the Old West in 1899. Alongside gang leader Dutch van der Linde and a cast of complex criminals, Arthur struggles to survive in an increasingly hostile world where law and order are tightening their grip. The narrative explores themes of loyalty, redemption, and mortality as the gang's carefully laid plans unravel and internal tensions threaten to tear them apart. Arthur finds himself caught between his brutal nature and an emerging conscience, particularly through his relationships with fellow gang members and his encounters with those he's wronged. Set across a vast, meticulously detailed American frontier, the game weaves Arthur's personal journey with the gang's desperate attempts to pull off one final score before everything crumbles. As federal agents close in and the gang fractures under pressure, Arthur must confront the consequences of his choices and decide what kind of man he wants to be in his final days. The story is a tragic meditation on the death of an era and the possibility of redemption in a world that offers none.
