Biography
American actor and a comedian Michael David Rapaport has acted in more than forty films since the early 1990s. For his television credits he's best known for his roles on the television series Boston Public, Prison Break, Friends, and The War at Home. Rapaport has appeared in both dramatic and comedic roles on film and television. His movie performances include “Metro”, “Deep Blue Sea”, and “Higher Learning”. Rapaport also had recurring roles on several television shows including: Friends, “Th...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Stealing Jokes
2024
as Louie
Comedian Jake Burman and friends head out on tour. After getting stiffed for their pay on their first gig they rob the venue which sets the stage for ...

October 8
2024
as Self
From Executive Producer Debra Messing and Director Wendy Sachs, OCTOBER H8TE is a documentary about the explosion of anti-Semitism on college campuses...

I'll Be Right There
2024
as Marshall
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.

The Choice Is Yours
2023
as Self
The story of rapper and artist Andres “Dres” Vargas-Titus, part of the legendary 90’s hip hop duo Black Sheep, and his incredible journey from being o...

Glisten and the Merry Mission
2023
as Grizz (voice)
Follows Marzipan, a young elfling, and her mother Cinnameg, as Marzipan must believe in the magic of the season and goes on an adventure to rediscover...

The Supporters
2021
Executive Producer
The comedy duo known as The Good Liars embed themselves into pro-Trump culture.

kid 90
2021
as Self (archive footage)
As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it...

Conflicted
2021
as Mike
Hunter comes home from prison and attempts to get his life on the right track. Will he succeed or be dragged back into his criminal past?

Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story
2020
as Bill Fitch
The Brooklyn-native street basketball legend Jackie Ryan.

Five Golden Rings
2020
A man looking to hire a hitman to kill his best friend and cheating wife gets more than he bargained for.

The Follow-Up
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Lonely. Scared. Insecure. But how's it going with you? Is this the first film to be made completely in quarantine? Possibly. 'The Follow-Up' is Ben ...

100%: Julian Edelman
2019
as Self
A look inside Julian Edelman's journey from major injury to Super Bowl MVP in 2019.

Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
as Self
Hollywood's finest pay tribute to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" for an uncensored and unforgettable celebration at The Dolby Theater.

Chuck
2017
as John Wepner
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2016
as Animation Voice (voice)
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his...

Sully
2016
as Bartender - Pete
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River,...
Hard Lovin' Woman
2016
Director
Documentary short that explores the sacrifices acclaimed actress Juliette Lewis makes to pursue her first love, music.

A Stand Up Guy
2016
as Colin
A low-level mobster takes a stab at stand-up comedy while in the Witness Protection Program.
Living the Fantasy
2015
as Narrator
In the rapidly growing world of high stakes fantasy football, we follow 5 of the industry's top players as they grind it out for championships, braggi...

Little Boy
2015
as James Busbee
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love...

When the Garden Was Eden
2014
Director, Producer
This nostalgic sports documentary captures the New York Knicks at the height of their golden era during the 1970s, revealing in the process a singular...

My Man Is a Loser
2014
as Marty
When it comes to women, playboy Mike has all the right moves. So when Mike's buddies ask for advice on how to reconnect with their wives, Mike figure...

NB90s
2013
A look at the NBA and its players during the 1990s, including Michael Jordan's all-conquering Chicago Bulls, possibly the greatest draft class ever, a...

The Heat
2013
as Jason Mullins
Uptight and straight-laced, FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance. Shanno...

Alekesam
2013
Producer
A father exiled from his country, a son exiled from his father, and their mutual attempt to connect to the world and each other through music.

Last I Heard
2013
as Bobby DiBianco
Released from federal prison after 20 years due to his ailing health, a formerly powerful New York mobster moves back home and attempts to reconnect w...

Kiss of the Damned
2012
as Ben Rider
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sed...

The Baytown Outlaws
2012
as Lucky
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.

Should've Been Romeo
2012
as Danny
A self-centered, middle-aged pitchman for a potato chip company loses his job and his livelihood just as his octogenarian grandfather is dropped on hi...

NB80s
2011
as Self
A look at the NBA and its players during the 1980s, including the introduction of the 3-point shot, the transformation of the Los Angeles Lakers into ...

Inside Out
2011
as Jack Small
For the last thirteen years AJ has been behind bars, convicted of manslaughter for killing a man who intended to kill his best friend, Jack. Now relea...

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
2011
as Self
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called...

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
2011
Director, Additional Camera
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called...

The Deported
2010
as Himself
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America

A Day in the Life
2009
as Detective Grant
Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime fami...

Big Fan
2009
as Philadelphia Phil
Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul ...

Assassination of a High School President
2008
as Coach Z
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article f...
Fugly
2007
as Jack
Identical twin sisters (Nikki Cox and Marissa Jaret Winokur) and their brother (Michael Rapaport) pitch in to buy one of the sisters (Cox) an extreme ...

Special
2006
as Les Franken
A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly ...

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
2006
as DJ (voice)
When D-Roc sees a pair of expensive sneakers called Air Jareds, he wants his mother to buy them to wear at school in order to look cool. His mother pu...

Grilled
2006
as Bobby
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...

Push
2006
as Tommy G
Drugs, sex and the allure of fast money blur the boundaries between two very different societies in Miami. Joe and his two best friends, Kevin and Mic...
It Ain't Easy
2006
A pimp is only married to one thing in his life and that's the game! Nothing and no one can come between him and his money. Mack's life was a little d...

Live Free or Die
2006
as Putney
It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. In small-town, hard-scrabble New Hampshire, foul-mouthed all-talk slacker John "Rugged" Rudgate fancies himself...

America Brown
2005
as Daniel Brown
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.

Hitch
2005
as Ben
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes pro...

This Girl's Life
2004
as Terry
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.

A Good Night to Die
2003
as August
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three ...

Comic Book Villains
2002
as Norman Link
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book sho...

29 Palms
2002
as The Cop
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag change...

29 Palms
2002
Executive Producer
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag change...

Triggermen
2002
as Tommy O'Brian
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend th...

Paper Soldiers
2002
as Mike E.
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001
as Joey the Raccoon (Voice)
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protec...

The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Spike Lee's satirical take on the American entertainment industry.

Chain of Fools
2001
as Hitman
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.

The 6th Day
2000
as Hank Morgan
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man...

Lucky Numbers
2000
as Dale
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the...

King of the Jungle
2000
as Francis
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life'...

Bamboozled
2000
as Thomas Dunwitty
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 2...

Men of Honor
2000
as GM1 Snowhill
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his ...

Small Time Crooks
2000
as Denny
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Next Friday
2000
as Mailman with Tax Notice (uncredited)
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a ...

Kiss Toledo Goodbye
1999
as Kevin Gower
After learning his biological father was a crime lord, an Ohio investment adviser must secretly try to prevent a gang war.

Deep Blue Sea
1999
as Tom Scoggins
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's ...

The Naked Man
1998
as Edward Bliss Jr.
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.

Some Girl
1998
as Neal
Inexperienced in love and living in Los Angeles, aspiring actress Claire longs to find that special someone. Unfortunately, she couldn't pick a more u...

Palmetto
1998
as Donnelly
After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feelin...

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families
1998
as Szarany
Two compassionate stories about two remarkable families who risk everything to help Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

Kicked in the Head
1997
as Stretch
When Redmon finds himself out of home and job, his life becomes a series of unpredictable escapades - from dodging gunfire after his uncle makes him d...

Cop Land
1997
as Murray "Superboy" Babitch
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s...

Subway Stories
1997
as Jake (segment "The Listeners")
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

A Brother's Kiss
1997
as Stingy
Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice afte...

Metro
1997
as Kevin McCall
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put hi...

Illtown
1996
as Dante
Two young lovers are torn between their part-time criminal activity and the enticement of family and home.

The Pallbearer
1996
as Brad Schorr
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never m...

Beautiful Girls
1996
as Paul Kirkwood
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...

Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Kevin
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...

Kiss of Death
1995
as Ronnie Gannon
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened....

The Basketball Diaries
1995
as Skinhead
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Higher Learning
1995
as Remy
African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will ...

Hand Gun
1994
as Lenny
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before ...

The Scout
1994
as Tommy Lacy
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potent...

The Foot Shooting Party
1994
as Lizard
The lead singer of a band gets drafted for war in Vietnam. So as not to break up the band, he decides to shoot his own foot.

Money for Nothing
1993
as Kenny Kozlowski
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. ...

True Romance
1993
as Dick Ritchie
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Poetic Justice
1993
as Dockworker
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to att...

Point of No Return
1993
as Big Stan
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent...

Zebrahead
1992
as Zack
A white, hip-hop loving teen falls in love with a black girl in Detroit.