Chris Rock(I)
- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Christopher Julius Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie
(Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped,
and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own
father was a preacher.
Rock 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 (1975).
He does commercials for 1-800 Collect and Nike and covered the
presidential campaign for the show
Politically Incorrect (1993).
He lives in Alpine, New Jersey.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie
(Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped,
and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own
father was a preacher.
Rock 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 (1975).
He does commercials for 1-800 Collect and Nike and covered the
presidential campaign for the show
Politically Incorrect (1993).
He lives in Alpine, New Jersey.