Behind The Velvet Rope TV · CC BY 3.0

Michael Rapaport built a three-decade career as a reliable character actor in films like True Romance, Higher Learning, and Cop Land, and as a series regular on Boston Public and The War at Home. He also directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life about A Tribe Called Quest, and later became a prominent podcast host with the long-running I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast.