Johnny Knoxville

Johnny Knoxville is one of those guys who somehow built an entire career out of letting the world watch him get hurt, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Born Philip John Clapp in Knoxville, Tennessee — and yes, he literally named himself after his hometown — he co-created Jackass for MTV in 2000 and turned gloriously stupid stunts into a legitimate cultural phenomenon. What gets me is that underneath all the chaos and broken bones, there's a genuine showman at work: the guy has real screen charisma, which he proved in films like The Ringer, Walking Tall, and the Bad Grandpa series. He's not just a daredevil, he's a performer who understood exactly what he was doing and committed to it completely. Few people have been tased, bull-ridden, and rocket-launched in the name of entertainment as wholeheartedly as Knoxville, and the fact that audiences keep showing up says everything.

Name (English)

Johnny Knoxville

Name (Japanese)

ジョニー・ノックスビル

Reading

じょにー・のっくすびる

Born

March 11, 1971 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

Origin

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / film actor / voice actor / stunt performer

High school

South-Doyle High School

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/realjknoxville
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB

Tags

• Tennessee
• actor
• screenwriter
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.