Rock singer Fred Durst has an impressive resume that spans far beyond his multi-platinum music career, and today he celebrates his 56th birthday.
Durst, born Frederick Allen Mayne III (and later renamed William Frederick Durst), was welcomed into the world on Aug. 20, 1970. He formed the nu metal band Limp Bizkit in 1994 alongside bassist Sam Rivers, drummer John Otto, and later, guitarist Wes Borland.
“We were actually in a room riffing at the moment,” he explained of the band’s name, per Loudwire. “We were just trying to think of something, and we don’t take ourselves so seriously all the time, but we like things that are a little left of center and sometimes really quirky and corny.”
The three-time Grammy-nominated band fuses various genres, including metal, hip-hop, and rap, with this unique edge being something that it has always been proud of.
“We want to have all of these sides and we really enjoy and get into all these different kinds of music, whether I’m singing soft, rhyming, screaming, or anything,” Durst told MTV News in 1998. “And we want to be able to be the first band to be able to do it all and be respected for it all.”
Limp Bizkit’s second studio album, 1999’s Significant Other, was the band’s first No. 1 record, taking the top spot on the Billboard 200, where it stayed for four weeks. “Rollin’,” one of the band’s most popular songs, reached No. 1 in the U.K. in 2001. The track has proved it stands the test of time, entering the Billboard Hard Rock Digital Song charts for the first time ever in 2025 — over 20 years since its initial release.
In 2001, Durst had his first taste of the acting world with a cameo in Zoolander. In 2006, when the band went on hiatus, he tried his hand at indie filmmaking, directing 2007’s The Education of Charlie Banks and 2008’s The Longshots. His love for film didn’t fade once the band reunited, with the singer going on to direct the 2019 psychological thriller, The Fanatic, starring John Travolta.
The early 2020s saw the “Break Stuff” hitmaker return to acting with roles in I Saw the TV Glow and Y2K.
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