
Michael Rapaport
Biography
Michael Rapaport is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host who has built a prolific, decades-long career playing memorable characters across film, television, and comedy. Emerging in the early 1990s as a distinct character actor known for his gritty New York persona, fast-talking delivery, and comedic timing, he made his feature film debut in Zebrahead (1992) before landing his breakout dramatic role as a naive marine in Tony Scott's crime classic True Romance (1993). He quickly established himself as a versatile fixture of '90s cinema, delivering standout performances in critically acclaimed films such as Poetic Justice (1993), John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995), Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the crime drama Cop Land (1997), and the comedy Deep Blue Sea (1999).…
Filmography

It Ain't Easy
2006 · 10.0

Friends
1994 · 8.4

Only Murders in the Building
2021 · 8.4

Dinner for Five
2001 · 8.2

Fallout
2024 · 8.1

The Simpsons
1989 · 8.0

Atypical
2017 · 8.0

Justified
2010 · 8.0

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families
1998 · 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990 · 7.9

The Big Bang Theory
2007 · 7.9

The New Edition Story
2017 · 7.9

ER
1994 · 7.8

My Name Is Earl
2005 · 7.6

Boston Public
2000 · 7.6

Eretz Nehederet
2003 · 7.6

True Romance
1993 · 7.5

Men of Honor
2000 · 7.5

Raising Hope
2010 · 7.5

The Basketball Diaries
1995 · 7.4

China Beach
1988 · 7.4

Little Boy
2015 · 7.3

Carol & the End of the World
2023 · 7.3

Sully
2016 · 7.2

black-ish
2014 · 7.1

Night Visions
2001 · 7.1

MADtv
1995 · 7.1

The Guest Book
2017 · 7.0

A Brother's Kiss
1997 · 7.0

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
2006 · 7.0

The Mob Doctor
2012 · 6.9

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016 · 6.9

The War at Home
2005 · 6.9

Cop Land
1997 · 6.8

Public Morals
2015 · 6.8

Glisten and the Merry Mission
2023 · 6.8

Beautiful Girls
1996 · 6.7

Poetic Justice
1993 · 6.7

Mighty Aphrodite
1995 · 6.7

The Heat
2013 · 6.6

Crisis in Six Scenes
2016 · 6.6

Hitch
2005 · 6.6

Next Friday
2000 · 6.5

Small Time Crooks
2000 · 6.5

Higher Learning
1995 · 6.3

Bamboozled
2000 · 6.3

Chuck
2017 · 6.3

Special
2006 · 6.3

Point of No Return
1993 · 6.2

Life & Beth
2022 · 6.2

Big Fan
2009 · 6.1

The 6th Day
2000 · 6.0

Deep Blue Sea
1999 · 6.0

Rude Awakening
1998 · 6.0

Palmetto
1998 · 6.0

I'll Be Right There
2024 · 6.0

America Brown
2005 · 6.0

The Baytown Outlaws
2012 · 6.0

Accidentally on Purpose
2009 · 5.8

Assassination of a High School President
2008 · 5.8

Chain of Fools
2001 · 5.8

A Day in the Life
2009 · 5.8

Metro
1997 · 5.7

Zebrahead
1992 · 5.7

Kiss of Death
1995 · 5.7

Money for Nothing
1993 · 5.6

Paper Soldiers
2002 · 5.6

Subway Stories
1997 · 5.6

Talkshow with Spike Feresten
2006 · 5.5

Live Free or Die
2006 · 5.4

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · 5.3

Pound Puppies
2010 · 5.3

Last I Heard
2013 · 5.3

The Scout
1994 · 5.2

Lucky Numbers
2000 · 5.2

Comic Book Villains
2002 · 5.2

The Foot Shooting Party
1994 · 5.2

Some Girl
1998 · 5.1

A Stand Up Guy
2016 · 5.1

Kiss of the Damned
2012 · 5.1

This Girl's Life
2004 · 5.0

Illtown
1996 · 5.0

The Pallbearer
1996 · 5.0

Hand Gun
1994 · 4.9

Grilled
2006 · 4.9

King of the Jungle
2000 · 4.9

Push
2006 · 4.9

Triggermen
2002 · 4.8

29 Palms
2002 · 4.7

Inside Out
2011 · 4.6

White Famous
2017 · 4.4

Conflicted
2021 · 4.3

The Naked Man
1998 · 4.1

My Man Is a Loser
2014 · 4.1

Kicked in the Head
1997 · 4.1

Five Golden Rings
2020 · 4.0

Should've Been Romeo
2012 · 3.8

Kiss Toledo Goodbye
1999 · 3.8

A Good Night to Die
2003 · 3.1

Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story
2020 · 1.0

Stealing Jokes
2024 · 1.0

The Miley and Mandy Show
2008 · 0.0

Matchmaking 3
2026 · 0.0
The Line
— · 0.0
Fugly
2007 · 0.0

Last Shot
— · 0.0

NB90s
2013 · 0.0

EP Daily
1997 · 0.0

The Trophy King
— · 0.0
Living the Fantasy
2015 · 0.0