Michael Richards

Michael Richards earned three Emmys for playing Kramer, and I would argue he deserved a fourth just for the entrances. What looked like chaos, all slides and pratfalls and hair, was actually precision engineering; you do not win Emmy after Emmy by accident. His stand-up roots show in his timing, but his real gift was making the human body itself the punchline, a tradition running back to silent film. Plenty of sitcom characters are funny because of their lines; Kramer was funny before he said a word. For me, Richards represents physical comedy at its most disciplined, a craftsman disguised as a madman.

Name (English)

Michael Richards

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・リチャーズ

Reading

まいける・りちゃーず

Born

July 24, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

Origin

Culver City, California, United States

Occupation

stand-up comedian / actor / film producer / screenwriter / singer

High school

Thousand Oaks High School

University

Evergreen State College

Awards & achievements

• 1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
• 1994 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
• 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA

Tags

• California
• stand-up comedian
• actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.