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Jack Black

Джек Блэк

Actor and musician, son of the aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen

🇺🇸 Fame: USA🇷🇺 Origin: Russian Empire🔗 Connection: Ancestry🗣 Russian: No
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Profile #440
ProfessionActor
Russian originMother's Jewish family from Brooklyn (European origin not documented)Russian Empire
ConnectionAncestryJudith Love Cohen
RussianNo
CategoryCinema & TVTier B
Biography

Jack Black — actor with roots in the Russian Empire

Jack Black. Actor and musician, son of the aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen. His mother, the aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen (1933-2016), was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, the daughter of Sarah Roisman and Morris Bernard Cohen. Published sources do not document where in Europe the family came from.

Russian Connection

Tracing the roots — Mother's Jewish family from Brooklyn (European origin not documented)

His mother, the aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen (1933-2016), was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, the daughter of Sarah Roisman and Morris Bernard Cohen. Published sources do not document where in Europe the family came from.

Family Tree
Subject
Jack Black🇺🇸 USA
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Mother
Judith Love Cohen
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Origin
Mother's Jewish family from Brooklyn (European origin not documented)🇷🇺 Russian Empire
Historical context
Russian Empire · c. 1721–1917
Map of the Russian Empire

Mother's Jewish family from Brooklyn (European origin not documented). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.

Map: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA)
Key Achievements

A career defined by ambition

01
School of Rock (2003) — career-defining comedic performance
02
High Fidelity (2000)
03
King Kong (2005)
04
Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) — voice of Po
05
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006) and Grammy-nominated albums

"I'm not trying to be cool. I'm trying to be Jack Black."

Jack Black
Russian diasporaRussian Empire roots
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