Famous For
Crackhead role in film New Jack City. Comedic role on In Living Color, stand-up on HBO. Film role: I Think I Love My Wife. Rock hosted the 77th Academy Awards ceremony. Grammy Awards: Best Spoken Comedy Album, 1998 Roll with the New, 2000 Bigger & Blacker, Best Comedy Album, 2006 Never Scared.


Quick Bio
An Emmy Award winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. Chris Rock was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.Rock began doing stand-up comedy in 1985 in New York City's Catch a Rising Star.[5] Rock slowly rose up the ranks of the comedy circuit in addition to earning bit roles in the film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and the TV series Miami Vice. Upon seeing his act at a nightclub, Eddie Murphy befriended and mentored the aspiring comic. Murphy gave Rock his first film role in Beverly Hills Cop II.
Rock became a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1990. He and other new cast members Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, and David Spade became known as the Bad Boys of SNL. In 1991, he released his first comedy album Born Suspect and won acclaim for his dramatic role as a crack addict in the film New Jack City. His tenure on SNL gave Rock national exposure.