Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, he has made over 100 appearances in film and television. His film roles include Zebrahead (1992), True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Big Fan (2009), and The Heat (2013). On television, he headlined the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007) and was a series regular on the Fox drama Boston Public (2001–2004), the fourth season of the Fox serial drama Prison Break (2008–2009), and the Netflix comedy drama Atypical (2017–2021). Rapaport held recurring roles on the NBC sitcoms Friends (1999), My Name Is Earl (2007–2008), and Justified (2014). Outside of his acting career, Rapaport directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Active on several podcasts, he is the host of the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast.

Rapaport was born in New York City, the son of June Brody, a New York radio personality, and David Rapaport, a radio executive who was the general manager of the All-Disco format at New York radio station WKTU Disco 92. He has a brother named Eric Rapaport and an older half-sister named Claudia Lonow (née Rapaport) via his father's prior marriage.

Rapaport grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near 70th Street and York Avenue. He is Ashkenazi Jewish; his family is originally from Poland and Russia.

Rapaport had a hard time in school. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but was expelled. He graduated from Martin Luther King High School in Manhattan.

In 1989, Rapaport moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19 years old to try to become a stand-up comic. Rapaport's stepfather, comic Mark Lonow, who owned The Improv with Budd Friedman, helped him get into the stand-up world. He did that for three years.

His big break in acting was on the TV series China Beach.

Rapaport had a recurring role in My Name Is Earl as Frank, a convict Earl reunites with in prison. He played one of the main characters in the season four of Prison Break as Homeland Security Agent Don Self.

In October 2008, Rapaport announced that he was directing a documentary about hip hop act A Tribe Called Quest. The film, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, was released in 2011 and received mostly positive reviews.

Rapaport guest starred in the fifth season of the FX series Justified as villain Daryl Crowe Jr, kingpin of the Crowe family.

On February 12, 2010, Rapaport participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game and was named the MVP because of his defense on football player Terrell Owens, the MVP of the last two Celebrity Games, despite scoring just four points and having only a single rebound.

On April 17, 2014, an ESPN 30 for 30 film he directed premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was about the 1970s championship-winning New York Knicks led by Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, and Willis Reed.

Rapaport is a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM, and participates in the show staff's fantasy football league.

Rapaport hosts the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast on the CBS Local radio network with childhood friend Gerald Moody.

Other podcasts that Rapaport has appeared on include The Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr, Mailtime and Pardon My Take by Barstool Sports, The Adam Carolla Show, The Fighter and the Kid, Unqualified, The Bill Simmons Podcast and its predecessor, The BS Report; The Chive Podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, His & Hers Podcast, Cari Champion's Podcast, The Joey Boots Show, The Dirty Sports Podcast and more.

On June 19, 2017, Rapaport announced on Twitter that he would be joining the sports satire website Barstool Sports where he would be a correspondent for the podcast Pardon My Take. On February 18, 2018, Rapaport was fired from Barstool Sports after making a rude comment toward their fan base.

Rapaport is a reporter for Fox Sports, covering the Big3 basketball league formed by Ice Cube. He is the narrator of the WWE 365 series on WWE Network.

In 2023, Rapaport competed in season ten of The Masked Singer as the wild card contestant "Pickle". A running gag is that he would bump into Nick Cannon. Rapaport was eliminated on "2000s Night".

After the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Rappaport appeared in many independent activist shorts supporting the release of hostages taken by Hamas and its affiliates.

On May 18, 1997, Rapaport was arrested for harassing ex-girlfriend Lili Taylor and charged with two counts of aggravated harassment. He pleaded guilty to the charges in court and New York Supreme Court Justice Arlene Goldberg issued a protection order to keep the actor from contacting Taylor, as well as mandating that he undergo counseling sessions.

In 2000, Rapaport married writer and producer Nichole Beattie. They have two sons. They divorced in 2007.

In 2005, Rapaport wrote an article for Jane magazine about having to evict the actress Natasha Lyonne from a property he was renting to her during a period of heavy drug use on her part. The two have since reconciled and remain friends.

In 2016, Rapaport married his long time girlfriend, actress Kebe Dunn.

In June 2018, Rapaport, while on an American Airlines flight from Houston to Los Angeles, stopped another passenger attempting to open an emergency door mid-flight.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Zebrahead	Zack
1993	Point of No Return	Big Stan
	Poetic Justice	Dockworker
	Money for Nothing	Kenny Kozlowski
	True Romance	Dick Ritchie
1994	Hand Gun	Lenny
	The Scout	Tommy Lacy
	The Foot Shooting Party	Lizard	Short
1995	Higher Learning	Remy
	The Basketball Diaries	Skinhead
	Kiss of Death	Ronnie Gannon
	Mighty Aphrodite	Kevin
1996	Beautiful Girls	Paul Kirkwood
	The Pallbearer	Brad Schorr
1997	Metro	Kevin McCall
	A Brother's Kiss	Stingy
	Kicked in the Head	Stretch
	Cop Land	Murray Babitch
1998	Illtown	Dante
	Palmetto	Donnelly
	Some Girl	Neal
	The Naked Man	Edward Bliss Jr.
1999	Deep Blue Sea	Tom Scoggins
	Kiss Toledo Goodbye	Kevin Gower
2000	Next Friday	Mailman with Tax Notice
	Small Time Crooks	Denny
	Men of Honor	GM1 Snowhill
	Bamboozled	Thomas Dunwitty
	Chain of Fools	Hitman
	King of the Jungle	Francis
	Lucky Numbers	Dale
	The 6th Day	Hank Morgan
2001	Dr. Dolittle 2	Joey the Raccoon (voice)
2002	Paper Soldiers	Mike E.
	Triggermen	Tommy O'Brian
	29 Palms	The Cop
	Comic Book Villains	Norman Link	Video
2003	A Good Night to Die	August
	This Girl's Life	Terry the Car Salesman
2004	The N Word	Himself
	America Brown	Daniel Brown
	Scrambled Eggs	Drama Teacher	Short
2005	Hitch	Ben
2006	Special	Les Franken
	Live Free or Die	Lt. Putney
	Push	Tommy G
	Grilled	Bobby
	It Aint Easy	-	Video
2008	Assassination of a High School President	Coach Z
2009	Big Fan	Philadelphia Phil
	A Day in the Life	Detective Grant
	Tom Cool	-
2011	Inside Out	Jack Small
2012	Should've Been Romeo	Danny
	The Baytown Outlaws	Lucky
	Kiss of the Damned	Ben
2013	The Heat	Jason Mullins
	Once Upon a Time in Queens	Bobby DiBianco
2014	My Man Is a Loser	Marty
2015	Little Boy	James Busbee
2016	A Stand Up Guy	Colin
	Chuck	John Wepner
	Sully	Pete the Bartender
	Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life	Animation Voice (voice)
2019	100%: Julian Edelman	Narrator
2020	Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story	Bill Fitch
2021	Conflicted	Mike
2023	I'll Be Right There	Marshall
	Glisten and the Merry Mission	Grizz (voice)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	China Beach	Kravits	Episode: "One Small Step"
1992	Murphy Brown	Robbie	Episode: "He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go"
	Middle Ages	Jimmy	Episode: "The Pig in the Python" & "Night Moves"
1993	Fresh Prince of Bel Air	Mike	Episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a Way: Part 1"
	NYPD Blue	Jaime Dileo	Episode: "Brown Appetit"
1997	Subway Stories	Jake	Episode: "The Listeners"
1998	ER	Paul Canterna	Episode: "Of Past Regret and Future Fear"
	Rude Awakening	Johnny	Episode: "Naked Again"
	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families	Szarany	TV movie
1999	Friends	Gary	Recurring cast (season 5)
2001	Weakest Link	Himself	Episode: "Disaster Benefit"
	Celebrity Adventures	Himself	Episode: "Belize"
	Night Visions	Harlow Winton	Episode: "Darkness"
2001–2004	Boston Public	Danny Hanson	Main cast (season 2-4)
2003	Chappelle's Show	Popcopy Employee	Episode: "Popcopy & Clayton Bigsby"
2005–2007	The War at Home	David "Dave" Gold	Main cast
2006	Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness	DJ (voice)	TV movie
2006–2007	MadTV	Clark Gable/Abraham Lincoln	2 episodes
2007–2008	My Name Is Earl	Frank Stump	Recurring cast (season 3)
2008–2009	Prison Break	Agent Donald "Don" Self	Main cast (season 4)
2009–2010	Accidentally on Purpose	Sully	Episode: "The Godfather" & "The Rock"
2010	30 for 30	Himself	Episode: "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks"
	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Himself	Episode: "Rebecca DeMornay/Michael Rapaport/Margaret Cho"
	Royal Pains	Stanley	Episode: "Big Whoop"
	The Line	Steve Waxman	TV movie
2010–2013	Pound Puppies	Squirt (voice)	Main cast
2012–2013	The Mob Doctor	Paul Moretti	Recurring cast
2013	The Haunting of...	Himself	Episode: "Michael Rapaport"
2014	Raising Hope	Michael	Episode: "Man's Best Friend"
	Justified	Daryl Crowe Jr.	Recurring cast (season 5)
2015	Black-ish	Jay Simmons	Episode: "Switch Hitting"
	Louie	Lenny	Episode: "Cop Story"
	Public Morals	Officer Charlie Bullman	Main cast
	The Big Bang Theory	Kenny Fitzgerald	Episode: "The Helium Insufficiency"
2016	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Richie Caskey	Episode: "Sheltered Outcasts"
	Dice	Bobby the Mooch	Episode: "Six Grand"
	Crisis in Six Scenes	Trooper Mike	Episode #1.6
2017	The $100,000 Pyramid	Himself	Episode: "Richard Kind vs. Rachel Dratch and Margaret Cho vs. Michael Rapaport"
	The New Edition Story	Gary Evans	Episode: "Part 1-3"
	Animals.	Erik (voice)	Episode: "Rats"
	White Famous	Teddy Snow	Recurring cast
2017–2018	The Guest Book	Adam	Recurring cast (season 1), guest (season 2)
2017–2021	Atypical	Doug Gardner	Main cast
2018	Hip Hop Squares	Himself/Panelist	Episode: "Blac Chyna vs. Jeremy Meeks" & "Yvonne Orji vs. Keith Powers"
	Ridiculousness	Himself	Episode: "Michael Rapaport"
2019–2023	The Simpsons	Mike Wegman (voice)	Guest cast (season 31 & 33-34)
2020	Sneakerheads	Himself	Episode: "The Match"
	Yo Mama	Himself	Episode: "I PAID Celebs $3,000 for YO MAMA JOKES"
	Cooked with Cannabis	Himself	Episode: "High Holidays"
	Tournament of Laughs	Himself	Episode: "The Exceptional 8"
2021–2022	The Wendy Williams Show	Himself/Guest Host	Recurring guest host (season 14)
2022	Celebrity Wheel of Fortune	Himself/Contestant	Episode: "Jaime Camil, Michael Rapaport and June Diane Raphael"
	Life & Beth	Leonard	Recurring cast
	Only Murders in the Building	Detective Kreps	Recurring cast (season 2)
2023	The Masked Singer	Himself/Pickle	Season 10 contestant
	Eretz Nehederet	Albus Dumbledore; Himself	Guest (season 21)
2024	Fallout	Knight Titus	Episode: "The Target"

Year	Title	Role
2011	Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest	Interviewer

Year	Title	Role
1996	Don't Quit Your Day Job	Special appearance #2
2001	Grand Theft Auto III	Joey Leone
2006	Saints Row	Troy Bradshaw
2008	Saints Row 2
2018	NBA 2K19	Coach Darren Stackhouse

Year	Artist	Title
1998	Jay-Z	"The City is Mine"
2002	Talib Kweli	"Waiting for the DJ"
2003	High & Mighty	"I Wanna"
	Jaylib	"McNasty Filth"
2004	Masta Ace	"A Long Hot Summer"
2006	Ludacris	"Runaway Love"
	H2O	"What Happened?"
2017	Snoop Dogg	"Lavender (Nightfall Remix)"
	Sean Price	"Dead or Alive"

Year	Artist	Title
1994	Frank Zappa	"Civilization Phaze III"

• Rapaport, Michael (2017). This Book Has Balls. New York: Touchstone. ISBN 978-1-501-16031-8. OCLC 975365440.

• Woods, Mecca; Rapaport, Michael (April 29, 2011). "Michael Rapaport Discusses His Film Beats, Rhymes & Life @ Tribeca Film Fest" (Video). Society HAE (SHAE).

• I Am Rapaport podcast
• Michael Rapaport on Twitter
• Michael Rapaport at IMDb
• Michael Rapaport at the TCM Movie Database