Johnny Knoxville Biography
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Johnny Knoxville (born Phillip John Clapp
on March 11, 1971 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American comic actor,
best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV series
Jackass. He starred with Seann William Scott in the Jay Chandrasekhar
adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. He has also worked with director
John Waters in A Dirty Shame and Daltry Calhoun, written and directed by
Katrina Holden Bronson and produced by Quentin Tarantino. His most
recent film, The Ringer, casts Knoxville as an able-bodied office worker
who joins the Special Olympics to pay for a surgical operation on his
gardener.
He was first noticed while writing a Tennessee newspaper series on
testing warning labels and "do not try this at home" warnings. His tests
eventually evolved into Jackass. Prior to the MTV show, he turned down
an offer from Saturday Night Live to do similar stunts for them on a
weekly basis. However, later in 2005, Knoxville hosted SNL.
Knoxville has a wife, Melanie, and a daughter named Madison, whose name
is tattooed on his chest over his heart. He purchased a cabin from
Johnny Cash right before Cash died.
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