Comedian Chris Rock has signed with WME for representation in all areas including acting, directing, comedy touring, books, and more.
Rock had been in play since December when his longtime agent Eddy Yablans was impacted by the CAA layoffs. (Yablans subsequently joined management company LBI Entertainment as a partner.) Rock had been with Yablans for 30 years, at ICM and then at CAA, a tenure that included the record-setting at the time $40-million deal with Netflix in 2016 for two standup specials.
Rock’s 2023 Netflix special Selective Outrage also made history as the platform’s first-ever global live-streamed event.
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He has won four Emmy Awards — for The Chris Rock Show, Kill the Messenger, and two for Bring the Pain — as well as three Grammy Awards for Roll with the New, Bigger & Blacker, and Never Scared..
Rock is set to direct and star in the feature Misty Green, based on an original script he wrote. He also is attached to helm the U.S. remake of Oscar-winning Danish film Another Round and a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic produced by Steven Spielberg for Universal Pictures.
Most recently, Rock served as executive producer and narrator of Everybody Still Hates Chris, a reimagined animated version of his autobiographical family comedy Everybody Hates Chris, which is streaming on Paramount +. His recent acting credits include the feature Rustin and Season 4 of FX’s show Fargo.
Rock continues to be repped by Untitled Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.