Ad-Rock

Q: Has Ad-Rock won any awards?

Ad-Rock, as part of the Beastie Boys, won several Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. His contributions to music and film have earned him widespread acclaim.

Q: What was Ad-Rock's first film?

Ad-Rock made his film debut in the 1985 movie 'Krush Groove', which was inspired by the early days of hip-hop and featured many notable music artists.

Q: What is Ad-Rock's role in the Beastie Boys?

Ad-Rock is one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys, serving as a rapper and guitarist. He played a crucial role in shaping the group's sound and image.

Q: What is Ad-Rock's estimated net worth?

Ad-Rock's estimated net worth is around $100 million, largely due to his successful music career and ventures in film and television.

Q: Is Ad-Rock involved in any charitable work?

Yes, Ad-Rock is known for his involvement in various charitable causes, particularly those related to animal rights and environmental issues.

Q: What is Ad-Rock's style of music?

Ad-Rock's music style blends hip-hop with punk and rock influences. His energetic rapping and catchy hooks have made the Beastie Boys a unique presence in the music industry.

Q: What is Ad-Rock's connection to Mark Ronson?

Ad-Rock appears in the documentary series 'Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson', which explores the creative process behind music production and features various artists.

Known for

Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson (2021)

IMDb 8 / 10

2021 / Documentary, Music

Oscar and Grammy Award-winning producer and artist Mark Ronson explores the intersection of technology and musical innovation with his heroes and fellow hitmakers –...

Name

Ad-Rock

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

31 October 1966, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Kathleen Hanna (2006–present)

Children

1, name not publicly known

Parents

Harriet and John Diamond

Estimated Net Worth

$100 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2021	Movie 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors...	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2021	TV Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson Oscar and Grammy Award-winning producer and artist Mark Ronson explores the intersection of technology and musical innovation with his heroes...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2020	Movie Celebrity Escape Room Jack Black is the master of ceremonies, leading Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Adam Scott, and Ben Stiller through a laugh-filled...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2020	Movie Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics Celebrities recall their most mind-bending trips via animations, reenactments and more in this comedic documentary exploring the story of psychedelics.	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2020	Movie Beastie Boys Story Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Still Ill: 25 Years of 'Ill Communication' The Beastie Boys look back on a period of the group's history that spanned from their groundbreaking 1989 album "Paul's...	Self	Not rated
2018	Movie Golden Exits An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign...	Nick	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2017	Movie Roxanne Roxanne The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge...	Attorney Schwartz	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	TV Soundbreaking Explore the art of music recording with a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. Featuring more than...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2016	Movie Contemporary Color In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate the art...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie Temporary Color A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.	Unknown character	Not rated
2015	Movie Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder A mix of cabaret and standup recorded at Joe's Pub in New York.	Self	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2015	Movie While We're Young An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.	Fletcher	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Sex and Broadcasting SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jersey's WFMU, the world's strangest and most unique radio station,...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie The Punk Singer A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers,...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	Movie Bad Brains: A Band in DC Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae...	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2011	Movie Beastie Boys: Move on Up This stellar documentary explores the career of the Beastie Boys, from their hardcore punk beginnings in 1979 to their 2011...	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie Fight for Your Right Revisited Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the...	Cop 3	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie Rappin' With The Rickster Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin'...	Self	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2009	Movie Live From Bonnaroo 2009 Features live clips and 16 artists performances from Bonnaroo 2009 in Manchester, TN. Performances by Amadou & Mariam, Andrew Bird,...	Self	Not rated
2009	Movie Beastie Boys: Live Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival The Beastie Boys' Final Performance before Yauch was diagnosed with early-stage parotid cancer and all tours, festivals, music video production,...	Unknown character	Not rated
2007	Movie Godspeed Jim is a butch bike messenger and speedfreak who is suddenly faced with an ultimatum by her girlfriend: clean up...	Repulski	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2006	TV 30 Rock Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos...	Ad-Rock	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie A Day in the Life of Nathaniel Hornblower Documents a normal day in the life of this Swiss character.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! Concert film combining the footage from 50 camcorders given to audience members of a sold-out Beastie Boys show at Madison...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2005	Movie Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The...	Self	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2005	Movie Just for Kicks Just for Kicks is a 2005 documentary film about the sneaker phenomena and history. It includes self confessed "sneakerheads" like...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	TV Banned in the UK Four-part series demonstrating different kinds of censorship, such as censorship by the government or of art.	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie Beastie Boys 'Horseplay' After 5 years of calm, these foul-mouthed rappers returned with the release of their 6th album To The 5 Boroughs,...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2004	Movie Beastie Boys $2 Bill The Beastie Boys perform live at the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas on June 09, 2004. This concert was later...	Self (as Ad Rock)	Not rated
2004	Movie Beastie Boys - Live at Melkweg; Amsterdam	Self	Not rated
2003	Movie The Work of Director Spike Jonze When you experience The Work of Director Spike Jonze, you enter a world where anything can happen and frequently does....	Self	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2002	Movie Cydeways: The Best of The Pharcyde The Best of The Pharcyde	Himself (Segment)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Beastie Boys: Video Anthology The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1999	Movie Beastie Boys: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1999 Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Tracy Chapman, Blondie, The Cult, Rage Against The Machine, Live, Cibo Matto, The Roots	Unknown character	Not rated
1999	Movie Beastie Boys: Live in Glasgow 1999 Seminal Beastie Boys concert recorded at the Glasgow SECC in 1999 for MTV. Tracklist: Mix Master Mike Intro \| Super...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Beastie Boys: Live in SECC, Glasgow This concert was recorded by MTV for the "Westwood One - MTV Concert Series," which aired on November 20 and...	Ad Rock	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	TV Futurama The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen...	Ad-Rock / MCA (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1998	Movie Free Tibet A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.	Ad-Rock - Beastie Boys	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	Movie Beastie\|ography An MTV documentary on the Beastie Boys from their rise to fame to the release of Hello Nasty in ’98.	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	Movie Beastie Boys: Open Air Festival Beastie Boys [1998.06.20] Open Air Festival, Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany	Unknown character	Not rated
1998	Movie Nathanial Hornblower’s: The Robot V the Octopus Monster Saga The full short film used as a basis for the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic. Included as a bonus feature on Criterion's...	Unknown character	Not rated
1996	Movie Tibetan Freedom Concert Documentary surrounding the festival.	Self	Not rated
1996	Movie Cityscrapes: Los Angeles "CITYSCRAPES" takes you on a 24-hour voyeuristic journey through the bedrooms, bathrooms, bars, cars, clubs, restaurants and back alleys of...	Young Man	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1994	Movie Beastie Boys: Sabotage Includes the songs: Djembe, Gratitude (Live), Sabotage, The Hurricane Freestyle, Triphamnmer, Skills To Pay The Bills (Live), Time For Living,...	Bobby, 'The Rookie' (as Vic Colfari)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1994	Movie Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain worked on compiling this collection of performances, interviews, and touring clips from 1991 to 1993 but...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1994	TV Hi Octane Short-lived 4-episode Comedy Central TV show created by and starring Sofia Coppola, co-starring Zoe Cassavetes, and featuring Thurston Moore, as...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1994	Movie Ciao L.A. Three upcoming actors from the show "Sabotage" are interviewed on the hit Talk Show, "Ciao LA."	Vic Calfori	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1993	TV Late Night with Conan O'Brien Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition...	Self - Musical Guest	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1993	TV Late Show with David Letterman David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a...	Self - Musical Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1992	Movie Beastie Boys - Live in Japan LIVE AT THE KAWASAKI CITTA CLUB, JAPAN, SEPTEMBER 19TH 1992 - Broadcast on Japan TV, the full concert at the...	Self	Not rated
1992	Movie Roadside Prophets On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson. Joined...	Sam	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1992	Movie Beastie Boys: The $kill$ To Pay The Bill$ Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun / So What'Cha Want / Netty's Girl / Shake Your Rump / Egg...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1991	Movie A Kiss Before Dying Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of...	Jay Faraday	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1990	Movie Cityscrapes Over the course of a day, Pete Sakes skates his way through 5 intertwined stories in Gen-X era Los Angeles.	Kevin	Not rated
1989	Movie Lost Angels Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the...	Tim Doolan	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1988	Movie Tougher Than Leather Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the...	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1988	TV Yo! MTV Raps Popular rap music videos showcased along with live performances and interviews with notable rap artists.	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1987	Movie Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done...	Self - as Beastie Boys	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1985	Movie Krush Groove Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and...	Self (Beastie Boys)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1985	TV The Equalizer Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting...	Ronald Baines	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	TV MTV Video Music Awards An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
TBA	Movie Time Out After being fired from his job, Vincent can't bring himself to tell his wife and family. Rather than reveal the...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2023	Movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and...	Songs Sound	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2020	Movie Beastie Boys Story Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	Movie Beastie Boys Story Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie Maggie's Plan Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love...	Music Supervisor Sound	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2014	Movie No No: A Dockumentary Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulful style defined 1970s baseball...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie The Thing That Happened 'The Thing That Happened' is a twenty-two-minute documentary short that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school on northern...	Music Sound	Not rated
2005	Movie Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The...	Music Sound	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2000	Movie Beastie Boys: Video Anthology The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1994	Movie Beastie Boys: Sabotage Includes the songs: Djembe, Gratitude (Live), Sabotage, The Hurricane Freestyle, Triphamnmer, Skills To Pay The Bills (Live), Time For Living,...	Music Sound	TMDB 7.5 / 10

Celebrity Escape Room

2020 / TMDB 6.1

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

2020 / TMDB 6.6

Beastie Boys Story

2020 / TMDB 7.5

Still Ill: 25 Years of 'Ill Communication'

2019

Golden Exits

2018 / TMDB 5.8

Roxanne Roxanne

2017 / TMDB 6.0

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Got a question about Ad-Rock?

What are Ad-Rock's most successful films?

Ad-Rock is best known for his roles in films like 'The Beastie Boys Story' and 'The Hot Chick'. While primarily a musician, his film appearances have garnered attention for their humor and creativity.

Has Ad-Rock won any awards?

What was Ad-Rock's first film?

What is Ad-Rock's role in the Beastie Boys?

What is Ad-Rock's estimated net worth?

Is Ad-Rock involved in any charitable work?

What is Ad-Rock's style of music?

What is Ad-Rock's connection to Mark Ronson?

Known for

Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson (2021)

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