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Biography
Born in South Carolina on February 7, 1966, Chris Rock was raised in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. As he grew up, he dreamed of becoming a comedian. His dream started to take the shape of reality when he was eighteen: while performing at New York's Comedy Strip, he met Eddie Murphy, who was so impressed with the caustic young funnyman that he cast him in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). After that he had small roles in a couple of films and then he was a cast member of SNL, but only for about three years. Then he went on to do more films and The Chris Rock Show on HBO. He even directed and stared in the movie Head of State.
Filmography
- Madagascar (2005) (voice) - The Zebra
- Head of State (2003) - Mays Gilliam
- Bad Company (2002) - Jake Hayes/Kevin Pope
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - Chaka Luther King
- Osmosis Jones (2001) (voice) - Osmosis Jones
- Pootie Tang (2001) - JB/Radio DJ/Pootie's Father
- Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (voice) - Comedic Mecha
- Down to Earth (2001) - Lance Barton/Charles Wellington, III/Joe Guy
- Nurse Betty (2000) - Wesley
- Dogma (1999) - Rufus
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) - Detective Lee Butters
- Doctor Dolittle (1998) (voice) - Rodney
- Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) - Joey
- Sgt. Bilko (1996) - 1st Lt. Oster
- Immortals, The (1995) - Deke Anthony
- Panther (1995) - Yuck Mouth
- CB4 (1993) - Albert
- Boomerang (1992) - Bony T
- New Jack City (1991) - Pookie
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) - Rib Joint Customer
- Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) - Playboy Mansion valet
Next Movie(s)
Madagascar
Release Date: Spring 2005
Cast: (voices) Ben Stiller (Alex the Lion), Chris Rock (The Zebra), Jada Pinkett-Smith (Gloria the Hippo), David Schwimmer (Melvin the Giraffe); other voice cast not announced yet.
Premise: This movie focuses on four residents and "stars" of the Central Park Zoo in New York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him, and eventually all four are captured and put in boxes to ship them back to the continent their species are originally from: Africa. An accident at sea, however, strands them on the shore of Madagascar. Having had humans take care of them their entire life, the four know nothing of surviving in the wild, or that one of them, the lion, is genetically predisposed to eat his three best friends. Exploring their surroundings, the four friends soon meet the Malagasy locals (a type of lemur given to having loud "rave-like" dance parties) and their carnivorous enemies, the fousas. As the two sides try to use these four new, strange (and large) friends to their benefit, our heroes are also confronted with the reality of their predestined roles in nature... (and yes, it's a comedy :).
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