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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

Ben Parker
for Ben Parker in Spider-Man: Season 1 Episode 1
Suggested by underworld_stories

Do you ever get the feeling that life isn't what it seems. That everything would be so much easier if you knew the whole story. Well, it won't, trust me. The episode opens with Peter Parker waking up, getting dressed, and going downstairs to eat breakfast with Uncle Ben. Peter and Ben talk about an upcoming project Peter has and Ben tells Peter if he doesn't start focusing more on his work, he won't be able to go on the trip to Oscorp with his class next week. After getting to school Peter gets cornered by the school bully Flash Thompson who intends to shove Peter in a locker and take his money but luckily Flash's friend Harry Osborn shows up and tells him to stop. Harry and Peter talk for a bit. Harry and Peter have never really been close, but they've known each other for a long time. Harry tells Peter they should hang out more and leaves while Peter goes to his class. When Peter gets home Ben asks him to go to the attic and get him something. While looking in the attic Peter stumbles across a box with the name Tom written on it. After opening it Peter looks shocked. The we cut to credits