---
name: "Ad-Rock"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-horovitz"
fi1m_id: "adam-horovitz"
imdb_id: "nm0395259"
tmdb_id: 124824
wikidata_id: "Q349799"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 October 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T21:52:07.103428+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ad-Rock

## Identity

Ad-Rock

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-horovitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adam-horovitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0395259
- **TMDB ID:** 124824
- **Wikidata ID:** Q349799
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-Rock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349799, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124824

Actor. Born 31 October 1966 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 October 1966, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1991–1999
- **Also known as:** Adam Horovitz, King Ad-Rock, Beastie Boys, Adam Keefe Horovitz, Vic Colfari 
- **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-Rock, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349799, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124824

## Biography

Adam Horovitz, also known as Ad-Rock, is an American composer, musician and actor. He is a member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys and has contributed to film soundtracks and original scores.

Horovitz has composed music for documentaries and features including *No No: A Dockumentary* (2014) and *The Truth About Lies* (2018). He served as music supervisor on *Maggie's Plan* (2016). He appeared as Jay Faraday in the film *A Kiss Before Dying* (1991).

He is the son of playwright Israel Horovitz.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Futurama* (1999), Fi1m 81, as Ad-Rock / MCA (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *A Kiss Before Dying* (1991), Fi1m 38, as Jay Faraday — [page](https://film.one/film/a-kiss-before-dying.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Beastie Boys Story* (2020), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Golden Exits* (2018), as Nick
- *Roxanne Roxanne* (2017), as Attorney Schwartz
- *Maggie's Plan* (2016), Music Supervisor
- *Contemporary Color* (2016), Actor
- *Temporary Color* (2016), Actor
- *While We're Young* (2015), as Fletcher
- *No No: A Dockumentary* (2014), Music
- *The Thing That Happened* (2011), Music
- *Fight for Your Right Revisited* (2011), as Cop 3
- *Beastie Boys: Live at Bonnaroo 2009* (2009), Actor
- *Beastie Boys: Live Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival* (2009), Actor
- *Godspeed* (2007), as Repulski
- *30 Rock* (2006), series, as Ad-Rock — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md)
- *Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits* (2005), Music
- *Beastie Boys: Video Anthology* (2000), Music
- *Beastie Boys: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1999* (1999), Actor
- *Beastie Boys: Live in SECC, Glasgow* (1999), as Ad Rock
- *Futurama* (1999), series, as Ad-Rock / MCA (voice) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *Free Tibet* (1998), as Ad-Rock - Beastie Boys
- *Beastie Boys: Open Air Festival* (1998), Actor
- *Nathanial Hornblower’s: The Robot V the Octopus Monster Saga* (1998), Actor
- *Cityscrapes: Los Angeles* (1996), as Young Man
- *Beastie Boys: Sabotage* (1994), as Bobby, 'The Rookie' (as Vic Colfari) · Music
- *Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!* (1994), Actor
- *Ciao L.A.* (1994), as Vic Calfori
- *Roadside Prophets* (1992), as Sam
- *A Kiss Before Dying* (1991), as Jay Faraday — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/a-kiss-before-dying.md)
- *Cityscrapes* (1990), as Kevin
- *Lost Angels* (1989), as Tim Doolan
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, as Ronald Baines
- *Time Out*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Actuació de Beastie Boys al Sónar 2007.the Beastie Boys](https://film.one/media/person/475499/gallery-77c49a62c322.jpg) Actuació de Beastie Boys al Sónar 2007.the Beastie Boys — bakameh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Beastie_Boys_Sonar_2007_Barcelona_Catalonia.jpg/1280px-Beastie_Boys_Sonar_2007_Barcelona_Catalonia.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adam Horovitz as Bestie Boys at Brixton Academy - 05/09/07 (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/475499/gallery-33c45ef55244.jpg) Adam Horovitz as Bestie Boys at Brixton Academy - 05/09/07 (2007) — Fabio Venni from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Adam_Horovitz.jpg/1280px-Adam_Horovitz.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ad-Rock](https://film.one/media/person/475499/gallery-933d81af48ac.png) Ad-Rock — Alex Lozupone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Loz_horo.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ad-Rock on stage at Virgin Festival 2007 at Pimlico race course in Baltimore](https://film.one/media/person/475499/gallery-aec2789a1890.jpg) Ad-Rock on stage at Virgin Festival 2007 at Pimlico race course in Baltimore — Jason, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Ad-Rock_on_stage_at_Virgin_Festival_2007_-_guitar_and_mic_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adam Horovitz from Beastie Boys (2007)](https://film.one/media/person/475499/gallery-3fbed8c63b22.jpg) Adam Horovitz from Beastie Boys (2007) — Michael Morel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Ad-Rock.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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