Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport is one of those guys who's been everywhere in '90s cinema and you might not even realize how much of your favorite stuff he's in — True Romance, Cop Land, Higher Learning, Deep Blue Sea — always showing up as the loud, scrappy New Yorker who somehow makes every scene feel grounded. Born and raised in New York City, he's got that borough energy baked into his DNA, and it bleeds into everything he does, including his podcast where he's just as unfiltered and opinionated as you'd expect. He's not a typical leading man and never tried to be, which is honestly why he's lasted: character actors with that kind of raw authenticity don't go out of style.

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Name (English)

Michael Rapaport

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・ラパポート

Reading

まいける・らぱぽーと

Born

March 20, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / comedian / podcaster / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

High school

Erasmus Hall High School

• Official sitehttp://www.michaelrapaport.net
• Xhttps://x.com/MichaelRapaport
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Rapaport
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%91%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342252

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• comedian

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.