- Source of Wealth: Film and Television
- Age: 54
- Birth Place: Andrews, South Carolina, United States
- Height: 5’10”(1.78 m)
- Weight: 140 lbs (63.5 kg)
- Marital Status: Divorced (Malaak Compton Rock)
- Full Name: Christopher Julius Rock III
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: 7 February 1965
- Ethnicity: African-American (45% from Upper Guinea, 30% from Benin and western Nigeria, and 25% from the Congo-Angola region), some English
- Occupation: Comedian
- Education: Community College (BA Broadcast Journalism)
- Children: 2 (Lola Simone and Zahra Savannah)
Chris Rock is a great stand-up comedian with a net worth of $100 million. He became prominent in the early 1990s after his appearance on Saturday Night Live. In the past, Comedy Central listed him as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. Last 2007, Channel 4 ranked him #9 on the list of United Kingdom’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Rock was in stand-up comedy for several decades and had his big screen debut in 1987’s Beverly Hills Cop II. After being as a stand-up comic and being in small film roles, Rock became famous as a cast of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. He showed on more prominent film appearances such as roles in Head of State (2003), Down to Earth (2001), Grown Ups (2010), its sequel Grown Ups 2 (2013), the Madagascar film series (2005–2012), Top Five (2014), and a series of HBO’s acclaimed comedy specials. He narrated, developed, and wrote the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009). Rock became the host of the 77th Academy Awards in 2005 and the 88th in 2016. He also won three Grammy Awards and four Emmy Awards.
People voted him as the fifth-greatest stand-up comedian in a poll that Comedy Central created. In the United Kingdom, they voted him as the ninth-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. In 2010 they created certain updates on the list and put him in the eighth-greatest stand-up comic.