Michael Rapaport
Birth name	Michael David Rapaport
Born	March 20, 1970 (1970-03-20) (age 37) New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Early life

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.^[1] 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. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the state. ... Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. ... Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. ...

Career

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. This article is about motion pictures. ... For other uses, see Eddie Murphy (disambiguation). ... For the Hindi language film with the same title, see Life In A... Metro Metro is a 1997 film starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. ... Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction horror film that stars Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, and Saffron Burrows. ... Nazi-Skinheads are a right wing subculture that developed in the United Kingdom in the first half of the 1980s. ... For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Zebrahead is a 1992 movie, directed by Anthony Drazan and starring Michael Rapaport in his first feature film. ... True Romance is an American motion picture released in 1993, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... The War at Home is a sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2005 on Fox. ...

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. Boston Public was an American television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on FOX from October 23, 2000 through to January 30, 2004. ... Saints Row is an action-adventure video game published for the Xbox 360 console. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Grand Theft Auto III (sometimes abbreviated as GTA III or GTA3) is an action computer and video game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), published by Rockstar Games in October 2001 for the PlayStation 2 video game console, May 2002 for Windows-based personal computers, and in November 2003... For friendship, see friendship. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the hugely popular sitcom Friends. ... Anita Barone (born 25 September 1964 in St. ... The War at Home is a 1996 motion picture starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, and Martin Sheen. ... Jane Sibbett (born November 28, 1962) is an American actress. ...

Personal life

Rapaport is married to Nichole Beattie and they have two children.

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".^{[citation needed]} Rapaport wrote an account of the matter in May 2005's issue of Jane Magazine. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A landlord, is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called the tenant. ... Natasha Lyonne (born April 4, 1979) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Jessica in the American Pie movie and its sequel. ... Jane is a magazine created to appeal to the women who grew up reading Sassy Magazine. ...

Filmography

• Zebrahead (1992)
• Point of No Return (1993)
• Poetic Justice (1993)
• True Romance (1993)
• Money for Nothing (1993)
• The Scout (1994)
• Hand Gun (1994)
• The Foot Shooting Party (1994)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• Kiss of Death (1995)
• The Basketball Diaries (1995)
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
• Don't Quit Your Day Job (1996)
• Beautiful Girls (1996)
• The Pallbearer (1996)
• Illtown (1996)
• Metro (1997)
• A Brother's Kiss (1997)
• Kicked in the Head (1997)
• Cop Land (1997)
• Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
• Palmetto (1998)
• Some Girl (1998)
• The Naked Man (1998)
• Rescuers: Stories of Courage (1998)
• Deep Blue Sea (1999)
• Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999)
• Small Time Crooks (2000)
• Next Friday (2000)
• The 6th Day (2000)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• Men of Honor (2000)
• Chain of Fools (2000)
• King of the Jungle (2000)
• Lucky Numbers (2000)
• Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
• Boston Public (2000 - 2004)
• Comic Book Villains (2002)
• Paper Soldiers (2002)
• Triggermen (2002)
• 29 Palms (2002)
• A Good Night To Die (2003)
• Death of a Dynasty (2003)
• This Girls Life (2003)
• American Brown (2004)
• Scrambled Eggs (2004)
• Tom 51 (2005)
• Hitch (2005)
• The War at Home (2005 - 2007)
• Live Free or Die (2006)
• Special (2006)
• Push (2006)
• Grilled (2006)
• A Day in the Life (2007)
• My Name is Earl (2007 - )
• Only in New York (2008)

Zebrahead is a 1992 movie, directed by Anthony Drazan and starring Michael Rapaport in his first feature film. ... For other meanings of point of no return, see Point of no return (disambiguation). ... True Romance is an American motion picture released in 1993, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. ... Overview John Cusack plays Joey Coyle, an unemployed South Philadelphia longshoreman who finds 1. ... The Scout (1994) is a motion picture starring Brendan Fraser and Albert Brooks and directed by Michael Ritchie, the director of The Bad News Bears. ... The Foot Shooting Party is a 1994 short film about conscription for World War II. It was written by Ken Carter and directed by Annette Haywood-Carter. ... For other uses, see Higher Learning (disambiguation). ... Kiss of Death is a 1995 crime/detective thriller which is a remake of the 1947 film of the same name which starred Richard Widmark. ... The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 film based on the book of the same name by Jim Carroll. ... Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 comedy film, written by, directed by and starring Woody Allen. ... Dont Quit Your Day Job is upcoming album by rapper Consequence. ... For other uses, see Beautiful Girls (disambiguation). ... The Pallbearer is a 1996 movie starring David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow andToni Collette. ... Metro is a 1997 film starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. ... Kicked in the Head were a ska punk band founded in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-1990s. ... Cop Land (1997) is an American dramatic film written and directed by James Mangold with an ensemble cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, and Michael Rapaport. ... Palmetto may refer to the following: Two closely related genera of palms: the genus Sabal, containing species such the Dwarf Palmetto and the Sabal palmetto the Saw Palmetto Amtraks Palmetto passenger train. ... Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction horror film that stars Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, and Saffron Burrows. ... Small Time Crooks is a Woody Allen comedy starring Woody Allen himself and Tracey Ullman. ... Next Friday is the 2000 sequel to Friday, which depicts the neighborhood of South Los Angeles in a comedic sense. ... The 6th Day is a 2000 action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... For the teletext, see Bamboozle. ... Men of Honor is a 2000 drama film, directed by George Tillman, Jr. ... Chain of Fools, also known by its production title, Shiny New Enemies is a heist comedy-romance about a haples barber Barber named Kresk (Steve Zahn). ... King of the Jungle is an American reality television program, that appears on the Animal Planet cable television network. ... Lucky Numbers is a 2000 comedy film written by Adam Resnick, directed by Nora Ephron and starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow and Tim Roth. ... Dr. Dolittle 2 is an American comedy film, the theatrical sequel to Dr. Dolittle. ... Boston Public was an American television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on FOX from October 23, 2000 through to January 30, 2004. ... Paper Soldiers is an urban crime comedy released in 2003 (see 2003 in film). ... (Redirected from 29 Palms) Twentynine Palms is a city located in San Bernardino County, California. ... Death of a Dynasty is a comedy film first screened in 2003 (see 2003 in film). ... Scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs is a dish made from beaten whites and yolks of eggs (usually chicken). ... Hitch is a 2005 romantic comedy film starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James and Amber Valletta. ... The War at Home is a 1996 motion picture starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, and Martin Sheen. ... Live Free or Die is a 2006 comedy film starring Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Rapoport, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. ... Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) leads a painfully unremarkable life as a metermaid until he enrolls in a drug study for an experimental anti-depressant. ... Push is an upcoming thriller film set for release in 2008. ... Grilled is a 2006 comedy film starring Kevin James and Ray Romano. ... My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ...

Musical appearances

• Frank Zappa: Civilization, Phaze III (1994) - Act Two, playing Moon Zappa's black-acting "boyfriend" in skits.
• Talib Kweli: Cameo in "Waiting for the DJ" (2002)
• High & Mighty: The Highlite Zone - "How to Rob an Actor" (2003)
• Ludacris' music video for the song "Runaway Love"; he portrayed the victimizer of "Lisa"--the first child depicted in the song. (2006)
• Jay Z "The City is Mine"

Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Civilization, Phaze III is a double CD by Frank Zappa. ... Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967, New York City) is the oldest child of American rock star Frank Zappa and Gail Sloatman; she goes by the name Moon Zappa. ... Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene in Brooklyn, New York City on October 3, 1975) is an American MC from Brooklyn, New York. ... High & Mighty is an album released by Govt Mule on August 22, 2006. ... Luda redirects here. ... Runaway Love is the third single released from Ludacris fifth album, Release Therapy (2006). ... Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and current president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records. ... The City Is Mine is a the second single from rapper Jay-Zs second album In My Lifetime, Vol. ...

References

External links

• Michael Rapaport at the Internet Movie Database
• MichaelRapaport.net