Henry Rollins' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Sons of Anarchy AJ Weston Adventure Time with Finn and Jake Bob Rainico… The Henry Rollins Show Henry Rollins Adventure Time (CA) Bob Rainicorn Shorty McShorts' Shorts Skylar The Cutting Edge Henry Rollins

Main Movie Roles 2009 - The Devil's Tomb 2009 - Suck 2007 - Punk's Not Dead 2006 - American Hardcore 2006 - The Alibi 2005 - Feast 2003 - Bad Boys II 2002 - The New Guy 2002 - Jackass: The Movie 2001 - Scenes of the Crime 2001 - Dogtown and Z-Boys 1998 - Jack Frost 1997 - Lost Highway 1995 - Johnny Mnemonic 1995 - Heat 1994 - The Chase 1994 - The Crow

BIOGRAPHY:

In 1980, Henry Rollins was a teenager living in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry and his friend Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Henry jumped on stage and took the mike for a song. A few days later, Henry was called back to New York to audition for the band. Henry spent the next six years riding in vans, sleeping in the back of trucks, getting beaten and mauled on stage, and fronting the baddest, most primal rock and roll band in the history of the world. Since 1986, Henry has enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle and career as a singer. He is a published (and often lucid) poet. His band, Rollins Band, was a highlight of the Woodstock '94 concert. His autobiography, Get In The Van, is available in print and as a self-narrated compact disc. He has written several articles for Details, an American magazine.


TRIVIA:

• Collaborated with 'William Shatner' (qv) on a song on Shatner's album "Has Been". The song was entitled "I Can't Get Behind That".
• Lives off Hollywood Blvd in the Hollywood foothills, California.
• Won a Grammy in 1994 for Best Spoken Word Album for "Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag", the same year he was nominated for Best Heavy Metal Performance for "Liar"
• Among the musical artists he admires least: 'Depeche Mode' (qv), 'Bruce Springsteen' (qv) and 'U2 (I)' (qv) (which he says has the worst rhythm section he's ever heard).
• Despises the music of 'Nine Inch Nails' (qv) and 'Moby (I)' (qv) (and most electronics-based musical artists in general).
• Has a multi-tiered career: sings, acts, writes books and poetry, does spoken word performances, runs his own record label and book publishing company, and now also TV film critic, and radio DJ.
• Sang in early hardcore punk band 'Black Flag' (qv).
• He took the stage name of Rollins shortly after joining Black Flag. The name came from notes exchanged between friend Ian MacKaye and himself when they were teenagers. The notes typically contained fake threats that were signed by a mystery character named "Rollins".