MICHAEL RAPAPORT
Name: Michael David Rapaport
Born: 20 March 1970 New York City, New York, United States
Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and a comedian.
He has acted in more than twenty films since the early 1990s.
Rapaport was born in New York City, New York, the son of June Brodie, a New York
radio personality, and David Rapaport, a radio program manager. As a teenager
he idolized the actors, and fellow New Yorkers, Robert De Niro and Christopher
Walken. He was expelled from high school and moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up
comedy.
Rapaport has appeared, in both dramatic and comedic roles, in film and
television. His movie roles include starring alongside Eddie Murphy in Metro, as
a wisecracking marine biologist in Deep Blue Sea, and as a naive college student
whose loneliness drives him to become a racist skinhead in Higher Learning. Many
credit his breakout role with the independent film Zebrahead. His other best
known film role was in True Romance as Dick Ritchie. Rapaport costarred in the
Fox sitcom The War at Home, in which he played an "average Joe" type dealing
with the everyday challenges of family life. The sitcom debuted in September
2005, and was cancelled in May 2007.
Rapaport previously starred in the TV drama Boston Public. He voiced Troy from
August 2006's Saints Row on Xbox360 and Joey Leone in the popular video game
Grand Theft Auto III. Rapaport had a recurring guest-starring role on several
episodes of Friends in 1999 as Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) police officer boyfriend,
Gary. Coincidentally, Anita Barone, who plays Michael's on-screen wife, Vicky
Gold in The War At Home, also appeared in Friends. She played Ross' ex-wife
Carol for one episode, before Jane Sibbett was re-cast in the role.
Name: Michael David Rapaport
Born: 20 March 1970 New York City, New York, United States
Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and a comedian.
He has acted in more than twenty films since the early 1990s.
Rapaport was born in New York City, New York, the son of June Brodie, a New York
radio personality, and David Rapaport, a radio program manager. As a teenager
he idolized the actors, and fellow New Yorkers, Robert De Niro and Christopher
Walken. He was expelled from high school and moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up
comedy.
Rapaport has appeared, in both dramatic and comedic roles, in film and
television. His movie roles include starring alongside Eddie Murphy in Metro, as
a wisecracking marine biologist in Deep Blue Sea, and as a naive college student
whose loneliness drives him to become a racist skinhead in Higher Learning. Many
credit his breakout role with the independent film Zebrahead. His other best
known film role was in True Romance as Dick Ritchie. Rapaport costarred in the
Fox sitcom The War at Home, in which he played an "average Joe" type dealing
with the everyday challenges of family life. The sitcom debuted in September
2005, and was cancelled in May 2007.
Rapaport previously starred in the TV drama Boston Public. He voiced Troy from
August 2006's Saints Row on Xbox360 and Joey Leone in the popular video game
Grand Theft Auto III. Rapaport had a recurring guest-starring role on several
episodes of Friends in 1999 as Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) police officer boyfriend,
Gary. Coincidentally, Anita Barone, who plays Michael's on-screen wife, Vicky
Gold in The War At Home, also appeared in Friends. She played Ross' ex-wife
Carol for one episode, before Jane Sibbett was re-cast in the role.