# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-rapaport
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:27:15.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-rapaport"
name: "Michael Rapaport"
slug: "michael-rapaport"
description: "Michael David Rapaport is an American actor, comedian, and podcast host. 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."
tagline: "American actor (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Rapaport_(2013)_2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           25.37391866666667
  currentAttention:     10.4
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 164
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill