- Born
- Birth nameRichard Bruce Kind
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Richard Kind, a Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee for the Broadway hit The Big Knife, is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor who continues to redefine the term character actor. Kind is starring as Sam Meyers in the Amazon Original Series Red Oaks (2014). He appeared in the 2013 Best Picture Academy Award-winning Argo (2012). Additional film credits include The Visitor (2007) and The Station Agent (2003), among many others, as well as voicing characters in A Bug's Life (1998) and Cars (2006). In television, besides his infamous roles on Spin City (1996) and Mad About You (1992), Kind starred in the acclaimed HBO series Luck (2011), has guest starred on many shows, and has had recurring roles on Luck (2011) and Gotham (2014). On stage, Kind has starred in the smash hit Broadway musical The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Candide, and Bounce, among others. Kind started his career in Chicago with the Practical Theatre Company, founded by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hill and Gary Kroeger.- IMDb mini biography by: Amazon Video X-Ray
- SpouseDana Stanley(November 14, 1999 - 2018) (3 children)
- ParentsAlice KindSamuel Kind
- Often works with producer/director/writer Bill Lawrence
- Playing characters that are annoying and/or impatient.
- Plays a lot of pathetic sad-sack losers
- The best man at his wedding was George Clooney.
- Along with Michael Boatman, he is one of only two actors to appear in all 145 episodes of Spin City (1996).
- Married Dana Stanley in New York City's Central Park. Dana is the executive director of Project ALS, an organization that raises money to study cures for Lou Gehrig's disease.
- He and Nathan Lane have played the same roles at two different times: Max Bialystock in 'The Producers' and Nathan Detroit in 'Guys and Dolls'.
- Is a cousin of Barbra Streisand's late stepfather and her half-sister, singer/entertainer, Roslyn Kind.
- I don't want people to know my name. I just want people to love me.
- [re friend and fellow actor Bobby Cannavale] Here's the difference between Bobby and me. After a show, people wait at the stage door for him because they want to be near him, like maybe it will rub off. They don't need to touch me. They just tell me their mother likes me.
- Fame is a prison. Anybody who goes after Fame is a fool. They're a fool.
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