Michael Rapaport

Known for ActingBorn 1970-03-20 (age 56)New York City, New York, USA

Michael Rapaport is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host who has built a prolific, decades-long career playing memorable characters across film, television, and comedy. Emerging in the early 1990s as a distinct character actor known for his gritty New York persona, fast-talking delivery, and comedic timing, he made his feature film debut in Zebrahead (1992) before landing his breakout dramatic role as a naive marine in Tony Scott's crime classic True Romance (1993). He quickly established himself as a versatile fixture of '90s cinema, delivering standout performances in critically acclaimed films such as Poetic Justice (1993), John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995), Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the crime drama Cop Land (1997), and the comedy Deep Blue Sea (1999). In television, Rapaport has maintained an equally robust presence, starring as Phoebe Buffay's police officer boyfriend Gary in NBC’s Friends, playing the lead role of a suburban father in the Fox sitcom The War at Home, and taking on major dramatic arcs in critically acclaimed series like Boston Public, Justified, Atypical, and Only Murders in the Building. Beyond scripted acting and voice work—including his prominent voice role as Ogre in the animated series The PJs—he has achieved widespread recognition as a sports and political commentator, documentary filmmaker (directing the acclaimed Beats, Rhymes & Travels: A Tribe Called Quest Documentary), and host of several popular podcasts, cementing his status as a ubiquitous and outspoken fixture in modern American entertainment.Read more

Movies & web series

It Ain't Easy

Only Murders in the Building

Too Late with Adam Carolla

Friends

Fallout

Dinner for Five

Atypical

Prison Break

Justified

Cop Land: The Making of an Urban Western

The Big Bang Theory

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families

The New Edition Story

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

ER

My Name Is Earl

The Masked Singer

Eretz Nehederet

Boston Public

30 for 30

Raising Hope

Carol & the End of the World

Men of Honor

True Romance

Hard Lovin' Woman

Little Boy

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Sully

The Basketball Diaries

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

China Beach

Hot Ones

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

black-ish

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

100%: Julian Edelman

The Guest Book

The $100,000 Pyramid

When the Garden Was Eden

kid 90

Night Visions

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

MADtv

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

Glisten and the Merry Mission

The Mob Doctor