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Who is Johnny Knoxville?

Philip John Clapp known professionally as Johnny Knoxville, is an American stunt performer, actor, professional wrestler, and filmmaker. He is best known as a co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass, which aired for three seasons from 2000 to 2002. A year later, Knoxville and his co-stars returned for the first installment in the Jackass film series, with a second and third installment being released in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), the first film in the series with a storyline, saw him star as his Jackass character Irving Zisman. Jackass Forever was released in 2022. Jackass 4.5 (2022) is said to be his final installment of the Jackass franchise.

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Johnny Knoxville Biography, Wikipedia

Knoxville was born Philip John Clapp (“P.J.”) in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Philip (1935–2018), was a tire/car salesman, and his mother, Lemoyne Clapp (Houck; 1938–2017), taught Sunday school. He has two older sisters. Knoxville credits a copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, given to him by his cousin, singer-songwriter Roger Alan Wade, with giving him the acting bug.

Knoxville attended South-Doyle High School in Knoxville. While in high school, he played on the baseball team where he was named All-Knoxville Interscholastic League Honorable Mention and played in the Knoxville Area All Star game as a pitcher. After graduating in 1989, he moved to California to become an actor. In the beginning, Knoxville appeared mostly in commercials and made several minor appearances as an extra.

When the “big break” he sought eluded him, he decided to create his own opportunities by writing and pitching article ideas to various magazines. An idea to test self-defense equipment on himself captured the interest of Jeff Tremaine’s skateboarding magazine Big Brother, and the stunts were filmed and included in Big Brother‘s “Number Two” video.

Real Name	Philip John Clapp
Nick Name	Johnny Knoxville
Profession	Actor, Stunt Performer, Filmmaker
Marital Status	Married
Wife Name	Melanie Cates (m. 1995; div. 2008)​ Naomi Nelson (m. 2010)
Children Name	Madison Clapp, Rocko Akira Clapp, Arlo Clapp
Physical Status
Age	51 Years (2022)
Height (Approx.)	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight (Approx.)	177 lb (77 kg)
Measurement	Not Known
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Personal Information
Date of Birth	11 March 1971
Birth Place	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Religion	Christan
Nationality	American
School Name	South-Doyle High School
College Name	Not Known
Qualifications	Not Known
Family Profile
Father Name	Philip Clapp
Mother Name	Lemoyne Clapp,
Siblings Name	Lynne Clapp
Career
Source Of Income	Acting, Stunts Etc
Net Worth, Salary	$50 million

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Johnny Knoxville Career

Johnny Knoxville is responsible for many of the ideas in Jackass, and is often seen as the de facto leader of the crew. The show is directed by Jeff Tremaine, who produced a pilot that used footage from Big Brother and Bam Margera’s CKY videos. With help from Tremaine’s friend, film director Spike Jonze, they pitched a series to various networks. A deal was made with MTV and Jackass was born.

Johnny Knoxville also participated in the Gumball 3000 for Jackass along with co-stars Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jackass director Jeff Tremaine, and cinematographer Dimitry Elyashkevich. Prior to Jackass premiering on MTV, Knoxville and company turned down an offer to perform their stunts for Saturday Night Live on a weekly basis, though Knoxville later hosted a 2005 episode of the show.

Knoxville has been in several feature films, most notably starring opposite Seann William Scott in Jay Chandrasekhar’s adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard. He starred in Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3D (which marked the 10th anniversary of the franchise), Jackass 3.5, Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5. He played a two-headed alien in the 2002 film Men in Black II. Knoxville also worked with John Waters in A Dirty Shame in 2004, and appeared as a supporting character to The Rock in Walking Tall in the same year.

In 2010, Knoxville hosted a three-part online video for Palladium Boots titled Detroit Lives. The videos focus on the resurgence of creativity in Detroit. Knoxville guest-starred as the voice of Johnny Krill, an extreme sports enthusiast, in “Extreme Spots”, a 2012 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Knoxville voiced Leonardo in the 2014 film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but did not appear in the sequel.

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Johnny Knoxville Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Desert Blues	Bob
1998	Number Two: Big Brother	Himself (uncredited)	Direct-to-video
1999	boob	Himself	Direct-to-video
2001	Crap: Big Brother	Himself (uncredited)	Direct-to-video
2000	Coyote Ugly	College Guy
2001	Don’t Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video	Himself	Direct-to-video
2001	CKY3	Himself	Guest appearances Direct-to-video
2002	Life Without Dick	Dick Rasmusson
2002	Big Trouble	Eddie Leadbetter
2002	Deuces Wild	Vinnie ‘Fish’
2002	Men in Black II	Scrad / Charlie
2002	Jackass: The Movie	Himself and Irving Zisman	Writer and producer
2002	CKY4: The Latest & Greatest	Himself	Guest appearances Direct-to-video
2003	Grand Theft Parsons	Phil Kaufman
2004	Walking Tall	Deputy Ray Templeton
2004	A Dirty Shame	Ray ‘Ray-Ray’ Perkins
2004	Steve-O: The Early Years	Himself	Guest appearances Direct-to-video
2005	Lords of Dogtown	Topper Burks
2005	The Dukes of Hazzard	Luke Duke
2005	Daltry Calhoun	Daltry Calhoun
2005	The Ringer	Steve Barker / Jeffie
2006	Ultimate Predator	Himself	Direct-to-video Guest appearances
2006	Jackass Number Two	Himself and Irving Zisman	Writer and producer
2007	Jackass 2.5
2008	Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman’s Tribute to Evel Knievel	Himself	Direct-to-video Executive producer
2009	Jackass: The Lost Tapes	Direct-to-video
2010	Father of Invention	Troy Coangelo
2010	Jackass 3D	Himself and Irving Zisman	Writer and producer
2011	Jackass 3.5
2012	Nitro Circus: The Movie	Himself	Guest appearance
2012	Nature Calls	Kirk
2012	Fun Size	Jörgen	Uncredited
2013	The Last Stand	Lewis Dinkum
2013	Movie 43	Pete
2013	Small Apartments	Tommy Balls
2013	Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa	Irving Zisman	Writer and producer
2014	Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
2014	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Leonardo	Voice
2015	Being Evel	Himself	Producer Documentary
2016	Elvis & Nixon	Sonny West
2016	Skiptrace	Connor Watts
2017	Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine	Himself	Documentary
2018	Half Magic	Father Gary
2018	Action Point	Deshawn Crious ‘D.C.’ Carver	Writer and producer
2018	Rosy	James
2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Himself	Documentary
2019	Polar	Michael Green
2019	Above Suspicion	Cash
2019	We Summon the Darkness	Pastor John Henry Butler
2020	Steve-O: Gnarly	Himself	Guest appearances Direct-to-video
2020	Mainstream	Ted Wick
2022	Jackass Forever	Himself and Irving Zisman	Writer and producer
2022	Jackass 4.5
TBA	The Brandon Novak Story	Himself	Documentary

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Johnny Knoxville Personal Life

Johnny Knoxville, as with the Jackass crew, has been involved with the professional wrestling promotion WWE. On the October 13, 2008 episode of Raw, Knoxville made his WWE television debut feuding with The Great Khali. Knoxville later appeared as the guest star on the October 4, 2010 episode of Raw in Wichita, Kansas.

On January 1, 2022, at WWE’s Day 1 pay-per-view, Knoxville announced he would be at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view as a participant in the event’s signature namesake match. His entry was confirmed on the January 7 episode of SmackDown while simultaneously starting a feud with Sami Zayn. He entered the Royal Rumble at number 9 and was eliminated by Zayn. Knoxville then returned on the February 25 episode of SmackDown and challenged Zayn for the WWE Intercontinental Championship that the latter won the week prior, but Knoxville got rejected and was attacked by Zayn. The following week, Knoxville distracted Zayn during his match with Ricochet, allowing the latter to win the championship from him. Later that same night, Zayn challenged Knoxville to a match at WrestleMania 38 to which Knoxville accepted, and the match was stipulated as an Anything Goes match, wherein on Night 2 of that event, he won the match against Zayn with the help of Jackass members Chris Pontius, Wee Man, director Jeff Tremaine, and new members Jasper Dolphin and his father Compston “Dark Shark” Wilson.

Johnny Knoxville Social Media Profiles

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Twitter	realjknoxville
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