Michael Rapaport
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Rapaport in 2013
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Michael David Rapaport March 20, 1970 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | Actor, director, podcast host, comedian |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Spouse(s) | Nichole Beattie (m. 2000) |
| Children | 2 |
Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor, podcast host, director and comedian. He has acted in more than forty films since the early 1990s. His best known roles on television are Boston Public, Friends, The War at Home, Prison Break, and Justified.
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 grew up on the east side of Manhattan. He has a brother named Erik Rapaport. His family is from Poland and Russia, and he is Jewish.
He was expelled from high school and moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19 years old to try to become a stand-up comic. His half-sister is Claudia Lonow via his father, David Rapaport, although she took her stepfather's surname. Rapaport's mother remarried comic Mark Lonow, who owned the Improv with Budd Friedman, which helped him get into the stand-up world.
In 1998, Rapaport pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment of his former girlfriend, actress Lili Taylor. He was spared jail time, but sentenced to mandatory counseling, and a protection order was enforced.
He had a recurring role in My Name is Earl as Frank, a convict Earl reunites with in prison. His character was the reason for many of the things in Earl's life, such as indirectly giving Earl his trailer and El Camino after a botched robbery with his partner, Paco. He played one of the main characters in the season four of Prison Break as Homeland Security Agent Don Self.
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