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Michael Rapaport and Emily Simpson in Emily Simpson & Michael Rapaport (2024)

Michael Rapaport and Aaron Moten in Fallout (2024)

Michael Rapaport and Lala Kent in Lala Kent & Michael Rapaport (2024)

Michael Rapaport and Jessel Taank in Jessel Taank & Michael Rapaport (2023)

Michael Rapaport and Scheana Shay in Scheana Shay & Michael Rapaport (2023)

Michael Rapaport and Erika Jayne in Michael Rapaport & Erika Jayne (2022)

Woody Allen, Jon Lovitz, Michael Rapaport, and Tony Darrow in Small Time Crooks (2000)

Woody Allen, Michael Rapaport, and Tony Darrow in Small Time Crooks (2000)

Michael Rapaport and Jenny Mollen in Jenny Mollen & Michael Rapaport (2022)

Michael Rapaport and Amy Schumer in Life & Beth (2022)

Michael Rapaport and Violet Young in Life & Beth (2022)

Michael Rapaport, Violet Young, and Lily Fisher in Life & Beth (2022)

Michael Rapaport, Laura Benanti, Violet Young, and Lily Fisher in Life & Beth (2022)

Michael Rapaport and Dolores Catania in Dolores Catania & Michael Rapaport (2022)

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Rapaport in Atypical (2017)

Timothy Hutton and Michael Rapaport in Beautiful Girls (1996)

Michael Rapaport in Beautiful Girls (1996)

Noah Emmerich, Max Perlich, and Michael Rapaport in Beautiful Girls (1996)

Martha Plimpton and Michael Rapaport in Beautiful Girls (1996)

Michael Rapaport and Paul Levesque in Inside Out (2011)

Michael Rapaport, Jim Johnston, Artie Mandelberg, Trazi Lashawn, and James He'bert in Inside Out (2011)

Michael Rapaport and Matthew Moy in The Guest Book (2017)

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Rapaport, Keir Gilchrist, and Jack Haven in Atypical (2017)

Michael Rapaport, Keir Gilchrist, and Nik Dodani in Atypical (2017)

Michael Rapaport and Keir Gilchrist in Atypical (2017)

Michael Rapaport, Kate Micucci, and Ali Ghandour in The Guest Book (2017)

Michael Rapaport and Bill Simmons in Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons (2016)

New Yorker through and through, Michael Rapaport was born on March 20, 1970, in Manhattan, to June Brody, a radio personality, and David Rapaport, a radio program manager. He is of Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish descent.

Rapaport moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up comedy following high school graduation (which came after a series of expulsions), but he never lost, forgot or deserted his New York roots. It's embedded in his work and is a major part of his low-keyed charm and ongoing appeal. His early idols were also New Yorkers (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, etc.).

Within a short amount of time Michael moved from the live comedy stage to working in front of a camera. The two developed an immediate rapport. A guest spot on the TV series China Beach (1988) led to a starring role in the quirky interracial indie Zebrahead (1992), which clinched it for him. This, in turn, led to a string of standout parts in films, such as Christian Slater's pal in True Romance (1993), an edgy collegiate-turned-skinhead in Higher Learning (1995) and a sympathetic none-too-bright boxer in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), all enabling him to build up a higher profile.

In later years, Michael managed to show his ease at offbeat comedy, demonstrating a kid-like, goofy charm as Lisa Kudrow's cop boyfriend for a few episodes on Friends (1994) and as teacher Danny Hanson on Boston Public (2000).

He later formed his own production company, Release Entertainment, in search of that one big breakout role that could nab top stardom for him. In later years, his offbeat character leads included an inducted mafioso in Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999); a hit man in the action comedy A Good Night to Die (2003); a comic book fanatic in the sci-fi comedy Special (2006); a trouble-making buddy in crime drama Inside Out (2011); a man helping out his former gangster neighbor in the dramedy Once Upon a Time in Queens (2013); and a married guy trying to get his mojo back in the comedy My Man Is a Loser (2014). For the most part, however, he served extremely well in support of other prominent stars with weird-to-bizarre featured roles for Woody Allen in his crime comedy Small Time Crooks (2000); for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the futuristic actioneer The 6th Day (2000); for Will Smith in the romantic /comedy Hitch (2005); for Ray Romano and Kevin James in the comedy crimer Grilled (2006); for Billy Bob Thornton in the action comedy The Baytown Outlaws (2012); for Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in the crime comedy The Heat (2013); and for Tom Hanks in the biopic Sully (2016).

Rapaport married writer Nicole Beatty in 2000 and divorced seven years later after having two children. In 2016, he married actress Kebe Dunn.

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