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| Birth Name(s) : Michael David Rapaport |
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Full Michael Rapaport Biography
Rapaport was born in New York City, New York, the son of June Brodie, a New York radio personality, and David Rapaport, a New York radio program manager. Rapaport idolized other New Yorkers Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken as a teenager. 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.
He was in the New York tabloids in mid-2005 as the landlord who evicted actress Natasha Lyonne from her apartment (in one of the residential buildings he owns), which he described as, among other things, "filthy". Rapaport wrote an account of the matter in May 2005's issue of Jane Magazine.
He has an on-going feud with the "Sports Gal" (wife of ESPN's "The Sports Guy"), due to not looking up while crossing the street. |
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