Chris Rock

Rock in 2017

Christopher Julius Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. He is known for his jokes about racial stereotypes; he talks a lot about differences that are common between black people and white people in the United States. Rock has been in many television shows, such as Everybody Hates Chris and movies, such as Dogma.

At the 94th Academy Awards in March 2022, actor Will Smith slapped Rock after he made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's, bald head.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Krush Groove	Person Standing Next to Phone During Fight in Club	Uncredited
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II	Playboy Mansion Valet
1988	Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen	Himself	Direct-to-video concert film
1988	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	Rib Joint Customer
1989	Who Is Chris Rock?	Himself	Documentary Short
1991	New Jack City	Pookie
1992	Boomerang	Bony T
1993	CB4	Albert Brown/M.C. Gusto	Also writer and co-producer
1995	The Immortals	Deke Anthony
1995	Panther	Yuck Mouth
1996	Sgt. Bilko	1st Lt. Oster
1997	Beverly Hills Ninja	Joey Washington
1998	Dr. Dolittle	Rodney (voice)
1998	Elmopalooza	Himself
1998	Lethal Weapon 4	Detective Lee Butters
1999	Torrance Rises	Himself	Documentary short
1999	Dogma	Rufus
2000	Nurse Betty	Wesley
2001	Down to Earth	Lance Barton	Also writer and executive producer
2001	AI: Artificial Intelligence	Mecha Comedian (voice)	Cameo
2001	Pootie Tang	JB/Radio DJ/Pootie's Father	Also producer
2001	Osmosis Jones	Osmosis Jones (voice)
2001	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Chaka Luther King	Cameo
2002	Bad Company	Jake Hayes/Kevin Pope/Michael Turner
2002	Comedian	Himself	Documentary
2003	Pauly Shore Is Dead	Himself	Cameo
2003	Head of State	Mays Gilliam	Also director, producer and writer
2004	The N-Word	Himself	Documentary
2004	Paparazzi	Pizza Delivery Guy	Cameo
2005	The Aristocrats	Himself	Documentary
2005	Madagascar	Marty (voice)
2005	A Christmas Caper		Uncredited role
2005	The Longest Yard	Farrell Caretaker
2007	I Think I Love My Wife	Richard Marcus Cooper	Also director, producer and writer
2007	Bee Movie	Mooseblood the Mosquito (voice)
2008	You Don't Mess with the Zohan	Taxi Driver	Cameo
2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Marty and other zebras (voice)
2009	Good Hair	Himself	Documentary (also producer)
2010	Death at a Funeral	Aaron	Also producer, remake of the 2007 film of the same name
2010	Grown Ups	Kurt McKenzie
2012	2 Days in New York	Mingus
2012	What to Expect When You're Expecting	Vic
2012	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Marty (voice)
2013	Madly Madagascar
2013	Grown Ups 2	Kurt McKenzie
2014	Top Five	Andre Allen	Also director and writer
2015	A Very Murray Christmas	Himself
2017	Sandy Wexler	Himself
2018	The Week Of	Kirby Cordice
2018	Nobody's Fool	Lawrence
2019	Dolemite Is My Name	Daddy Fatts
2020	Molly	Adam	Post-production
2020	The Organ Donor	Zeke	Post-production Also story writer and executive producer
2020	The Witches		Post-production

Chris Rock Media

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  Rock was a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1990-1993)

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  A cool cat Chris Rock vosots Baltimore in 1995 © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001

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  Cameron Diaz and Rock in 2012 at the premiere of What to Expect When You're Expecting

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  Chris Rock - Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis 3/17

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  Rock has collaborated frequently with comedian Eddie Murphy

Other websites

Chris Rock on IMDb