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Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport
Michael Rapaport
Born: Mar 20, 1970 in New York, New York
Occupation: Actor
Active: '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Bamboozled, Zebrahead, Mighty Aphrodite
First Major Screen Credit: Zebrahead (1992)
34 Videos for Michael Rapaport
Big Fan (2009) Comic Book Villains (2002) Illtown (1996)
Assassination of a High School President (2008) Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) Higher Learning (1995)
Prison Break: Season 04 (2008) Bamboozled (2000) Kiss of Death (1995)
Prison Break: Season 04 (2008) King of the Jungle (2000) The Basketball Diaries (1995)
My Name Is Earl: Season 03 (2007) Men of Honor (2000) Hand Gun (1994)
Live Free or Die (2006) Small Time Crooks (2000) The Scout (1994)
Hitch (2005) The 6th Day (2000) Poetic Justice (1993)
Special (2005) Deep Blue Sea (1999) Point of No Return (1993)
America Brown (2004) Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999) True Romance (1993)
Alex & Emma (2003) Palmetto (1998) Zebrahead (1992)
Death of a Dynasty (2003) A Brother's Kiss (1997) Black Christmas (1974)
This Girl's Life (2003)
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Biography:

Within four years of his film debut in Zebrahead (1993), Michael Rapaport became one of Hollywood's hardest-working and most versatile supporting/character actors. He began as a standup comedian, but turned to acting after landing a guest-starring role in a 1990 episode of the ABC television drama China Beach.

Rapaport's portrayal in Zebrahead of a Jewish teen struggling to survive in an African-American-dominated Detroit neighborhood while romantically involved with a black girl earned him considerable acclaim and a nomination for an Independent Feature Project Spirit Award. After that, he did a bit more television work and his career remained low-key until the following year, when he suddenly burst back onto the screen in four major films: True Romance, Point of No Return, Money for Nothing, and Poetic Justice.

Some of Rapaport's notable subsequent roles include that of a college student who mistakenly attempts to find his niche by becoming a skinhead in John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995) and that of a slightly dim prizefighter set up for a blind date with a goodhearted hooker in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995).

In 1998, Rapaport co-starred in the Showtime cable network's black comedy series about the zany world of substance abuse recovery programs Rude Awakening. That year, Rapaport also appeared in the films Palmetto and Some Girls. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.