Chris Rock Biography
Chris Rock whose full name is Christopher Julius Rock is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He has been in stand-up comedy for several decades. He made his big-screen debut in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and spent three years on the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Chris Rock Age
Rock is 54 years old as of 2021. He was born on February 7, 1965, in Andrews, South Carolina, the United States of America. He celebrates his birthday on February 7 every year.
Chris Rock Height
Rock stands at a height of 1.78 meters.
Chris Rock Family
Rock’s mother, Rosalie (Tingman), was a teacher and a mental health social worker. His father, Julius Rock, was a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman. He is the eldest of four children born to his parents. His father died in 1988 as a result of ulcer surgery. His paternal grandpa, Allen Rock, a preacher, is said to have influenced his performance style. His family history was included in the PBS series African American Lives 2 in 2008.
According to a DNA test, he is of Cameroonian descent, specifically from the Udeme people of northern Cameroon. His great-great-grandfather, Julius Caesar Tingman, was a slave for 21 years before joining the US Colored Troops during the American Civil War. His paternal grandfather moved from South Carolina to New York City in the 1940s to work as a taxicab driver and preacher.
Chris Rock Siblings
His seven brothers are Jordan Rock, Kenny Rock, Andi Rock, Andre Rock, Tony Rock, Charles Rock, and Brian Rock. His three younger siblings, Jordan, Kenny, and Tony, also pursued careers in the entertainment industry after him. Charles, his older half-brother, died in 2006 after a long struggle with alcoholism.
Chris Rock Sister
Rock does not have a sister, he only has brothers.
Chris Rock Wife
Rock married Malaak Compton-Rock on November 23, 1996. Compton-Rock is the creator and executive director of Style Works. The couple lived in Alpine, New Jersey. In December 2014, Rock announced that he had filed for divorce from Compton-Rock. Rock admits to cheating on his wife and to have a problem with p*rnography. The divorce was finalized on August 22, 2016.
Chris Rock Girlfriend
After a rocky divorce from Malaak, Chris began dating Megalyn Echikunwoke in 2017. Megalyn is a half-Igbo and half-Navajo Nigerian woman. She has been an actress since 1998 and is best known for her role as Medical Examiner Dr. Tara Price on the seventh season of CSI: Miami. She is now a guest star on the hit CW show Arrow and the voice of the character Vixen in the web series Vixen.
Chris Rock Children
He has two daughters from his marriage with Compton Rock namely; Lola Simone born in 2002 and Zahra Savannah born in 2004.
Chris Rock Gay
Rock is not gay, he has a girlfriend.
Chris Rock Net Worth
Rock has an estimated net worth of $60 million dollars which he has earned through his career as a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director.
Chris Rock Career
Rock became a force to be reckoned with as a cast individual from Saturday Night Live in the mid-1990s. Rock has shown up having featuring jobs in movies, for example, Down to Earth, Head of State, The Longest Yard, the Madagascar film series, Grown Ups, and its spin-off Grown Ups 2. He likewise has a progression of acclaimed stand-up specials for HBO.
He was the person who created, composed, and portrayed the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris which depended on his initial life. The Sitcom ran from 2005 to 2009. In 2016, he facilitated the 77th Academy Awards in 2005 and the 88th. Chris has additionally won four Emmy Awards and three Grammy Awards. In a survey directed by Comedy Central, he has cast a ballot the fifth-most noteworthy professional comic.
In the United Kingdom, he has cast a ballot as the 10th most noteworthy professional comedian on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007 and furthermore in the refreshed 2010 rundown as the eighth-most noteworthy professional comedian. Rock was recorded among many specialists whose material was apparently annihilated in the 2008 Universal fire on 25 June 2019 by The New York Times Magazine. Chris Rock is likewise a candid pundit of racial profiling and frequently talks about the “regular bigotry” he professes to encounter, in spite of being popular.
During a 2013 episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, Rock and Seinfeld are pulled over by the police for speeding while Seinfeld was driving. In an episode, he concedes to Seinfeld that “Assuming you weren’t here, I’d be terrified. Better believe it, I’m popular – still dark.” He was pulled three times in the initial three months of the year. He posted a selfie of the episode, minus any additional remark with respect to the justification for the stops or regardless of whether he was given a reference.
Chris Rock Stand Up – Chris Rock Comedy
Chris began doing stand-up parody in 1984 in New York City’s Catch a Rising Star. He then, at that point, gradually ascended the positions of the satire circuit as well as procuring bit jobs in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka film and the TV series Miami Vice. Eddie Murphy got to know and coached the hopeful comic after seeing his carry-on like a dance club. Eddie gave Chris his first film job in Beverly Hills Cop II.
In the fall of 1993, Rock showed up in six episodes of the transcendently African-American sketch show In Living Color as an exceptional visitor star. It was dropped a month later he showed up. He composed and featured in the low-spending plan satire CB4, which made $18 million against its spending plan of $6 million. He featured in his first HBO parody exceptional in 1994 named Big Ass Jokes as a component of HBO Comedy Half-Hour.
Rock’s subsequent extraordinary, 1996’s Bring the Pain, made Rock one of the most acclaimed and economically effective comics in the business. He won two Emmy Awards for his uniqueness and acquired huge basic approval. His most well-known questionable piece of the exceptional was “nigg*s versus Individuals of color”. Rock procured one more Emmy designation for his much-advertised job as a reporter for Comedy Central’s Politically Incorrect during the 1996 Presidential races. He was additionally the voice for the “Lil Penny” manikin who was the modified self-image to ball star Penny Hardaway in a progression of Nike shoe advertisem*nts from 1994–1998.
Saturday Night Live
In 1990, Chris joined the cast of the iconic sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, along with other new cast members, were known as the Bad Boys of SNL. Rock’s debut comedy CD, Born Suspect, was released, and he received critical acclaim for his part as a crack addict in the film New Jack City. His time on Saturday Night Live gained him national prominence. He was effectively “fired” from Saturday Night Live after making arrangements to leave following the 1992-93 season.
Chris Rock Actor
He began his career as a supporting actor in films including Dogma, Beverly Hills Ninja, Lethal Weapon 4, and Nurse Betty before going on to star in The Longest Yard, Bad Company, and Down to Earth. Death at a Funeral, Grown Ups, and 2 Days in New York are among his 2010 film appearances. As a writer and director, he’s spent more time in front of the camera.
He starred in Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, both of which he directed. Chris has voiced Marty, the crazy zebra from the Madagascar animated film franchise. During the release of his debut documentary, Good Hair, in 2009, Rock is working on Credit Is the Devil, a film on debt. In 2014, he wrote, directed, and starred in Top Five, a critically acclaimed film. Some reviewers have compared the film to Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories.
Chris Rock Bring The Pain
Chris Rock: Bring the Pain, a television special starring comedian Chris Rock, broadcast on HBO on June 1, 1996. After 1994’s Big Ass Jokes as part of HBO Comedy Half-Hour, it was Rock’s second special on the network. Bring the Pain helped him become one of the most popular comedians in the United States, despite the fact that he was already a well-known comedian.
Chris Rock Bigger and Blacker
Bigger & Blacker, a Rocks television special, debuted on HBO on July 10, 1999. It was his third HBO special, and it was taped in Harlem’s Apollo Theater.
Chris Rock New Jack City
In the 1991 American Neo-noir action gangster film New Jack City, rock stars as “Pookie” Benny Robinson, a former stick-up kid who becomes homeless and poor after Appleton shoots him in the foot. Benny later develops a crack addiction and becomes a police informant, infiltrating the CMB at the Carter but being apprehended and killed.
The Chris Rock Show
The Chris Rock Show, which included a variety of guests, was founded by Chris. HBO broadcasted a late-night humour talk show. In 1999, this show was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program. From 1997 through 2000, The Chris Rock Show aired for five seasons.
Chris Rock Tour
Rock has not yet announced any tour or event.
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock Movie
‘The Week of,’ a new big-hearted comedy starring Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, has been released. A week before their children’s wedding, two families gather together. Chaos erupts, and the big day appears to be approaching too quickly.
Chris Rock Awards
- 1997 – Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special category
- 1998 – Grammy Awards in Best Comedy Album category
- 1999 – Primetime Emmy Award in Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series category
- 2000 – Grammy Awards in Best Comedy Album category
- 2006 – Grammy Awards in Best Comedy Album category
- Kids Choice Awards in Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie category
- Kids Choice Awards in Wannabe category
- 2015 – Black Reel Award in Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original category
Chris Rock House
Chris has listed his elegant Brooklyn carriage home for $3.85 million on the market. The house was constructed in 1901. It’s a three-story carriage house in the upscale Clinton Hill district of New York.
Chris Rock Movies
- 1985 Krush Groove
- 1987 Beverly Hills Cop II
- 1988 Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen
- 1988 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
- 1989 Who Is Chris Rock?
- 1991 New Jack City
- 1992 Boomerang
- 1993 CB4
- 1995 Panther
- 1995 The Immortals
- 1996 Sgt. Bilko
- 1997 Beverly Hills Ninja
- 1998 Dr. Dolittle
- 1998 Lethal Weapon 4
- 1999 Dogma Rufus
- 1999 Torrance Rises
- 2000 Nurse Betty
- 2001 AI: Artificial Intelligence
- Down to Earth
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Osmosis Jones
- Pootie Tang
- 2002 Bad Company
- 2002 Comedian
- 2003 Head of State
- 2003 Pauly Shore Is Dead
- 2004 Paparazzi
- 2004 The N-Word
- 2005 Madagascar
- The Aristocrats
- The Longest Yard
- 2007 Bee Movie
- 2007 I Think I Love My Wife
- 2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
- 2008 You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
- 2009 Good Hair
- 2010 Death at a Funeral
- 2010 Grown Ups
- 2012 2 Days in New York
- Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting
- 2013 Grown Ups 2
- 2013 Madly Madagascar
- 2014 Top Five
- 2015 A Very Murray Christmas
- 2017 Sandy Wexler
- 2018 The Week Of
Chris Rock Songs
- Affirmative Action
- Aids Test
- Another Face Son
- Ball Mart
- Big Piece Of Chicken
- Black Mall
- Black Poet
- Blacks Aren’t Crazy
- Born Suspect
- Busboys McDonalds And Minimum Wage
- Champagne
- Cheap Pete
- Church Of The ATM
- Clermont Lounge #1
- Crack Mayor
- Crazy White Kids
- Defending Rap
- Domestic Abuse
- Don’t Cheat
- Driving Too Slow
- Drugs Donuts Wealth
- Fat Black Women
- Feed Other Countries
- Generic Food
- Get Lower
- Government Hates Rap
- Gun Control
- I Love This Show
- I’m Back
- Insurance
Chris Rock Quotes/Jokes
- “Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.”
- “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”
- “Don’t argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in an argument. It’s impossible you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing a case we have a need to make sense.”
- “Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.”
- “If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty.”
