Anthony Rock

Tony Rock (born Anthony Rock on June 30, 1974, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, and the younger brother of comedian Chris Rock. He is best known for playing Uncle Ryan on Everybody Hates Chris (2008-2009) and television producer Dirk Black on the UPN/The CW series All of Us (2003-2007). He grew up on Decatur Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City, the son of Rosalie and Julius Rock, and has six brothers and one sister.

In the early 2000s, Rock hosted a short-lived game show titled Can You Tell? for the Oxygen network and was a correspondent for BattleBots on Comedy Central. He often worked as a back-up to his brother Chris and appeared on the latter's sitcom Everybody Hates Chris in the recurring role of Uncle Ryan; Chris's fictitious brother Drew from the show is loosely based on Tony. Rock hosted The Funny Spot on TV One and starred in his own sketch comedy series, The Tony Rock Project, broadcast on MyNetworkTV from 2008 to 2009. On February 19, 2010, Comedy Central aired his feature on season 14 of Comedy Central Presents.

In 2012, Rock appeared in Think Like a Man, a feature film based on Steve Harvey's book, and in David E. Talbert's What Goes Around Comes Around, and began hosting Apollo Live on BET. He was also a co-star on CBS's comedy Living Biblically, alongside Jay Ferguson, Lindsey Kraft, Camryn Manheim and Sara Gilbert. In 2022 he appeared on the Netflix baking competition Is It Cake? as a judge.