# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-reiser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:13:22.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-reiser"
name: "Paul Reiser"
slug: "paul-reiser"
description: "Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, and Detective Jeffrey Friedman in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. He has gained recognition for his roles as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Dr. Sam Owens in the Netflix series Stranger Things."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Reiser_by_Gage_Skidmore.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: "1956-03-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.029084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "paulreiser"
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    handle:    "paulreiserofficial"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "بول ريزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ポール・ライザー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "폴 라이저"
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    title: "Pols Raizers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Reiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump