Richard Kind, a Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee for the Broadway hit The Big Knife, is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor who continues to redefine the term character actor. Kind is starring as Sam Meyers in the Amazon Original Series Red Oaks (2014). He appeared in the 2013 Best Picture Academy Award-winning Argo (2012). Additional film credits include The Visitor (2007) and The Station Agent (2003), among many others, as well as voicing characters in A Bug’s Life (1998) and Cars (2006). In television, besides his infamous roles on Spin City (1996) and Mad About You (1992), Kind starred in the acclaimed HBO series Luck (2011), has guest starred on many shows, and has had recurring roles on Luck (2011) and Gotham (2014). On stage, Kind has starred in the smash hit Broadway musical The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Candide, and Bounce, among others. Kind started his career in Chicago with the Practical Theatre Company, founded by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Hill and Gary Kroeger.
Richard Kind
Movies
Roadside Romeo
This is the story of Romeo. A dude who was living the life. He had the works – the mansion to live in, the chicks to party with and the cars to be driven around in. Until one day, the family he was the favorite pet of, decided to move…
Fun Facts
The best man at his wedding was George Clooney.
Married Dana Stanley in New York City's Central Park. Dana is the executive director of Project ALS, an organization that raises money to study cures for Lou Gehrig's disease.
Father, Samuel, was a jeweler in Princeton, New Jersey. He passed away in 1998. His mother, Alice, was a homemaker. His sister, Joanne, also is a homemaker.
Studied pre-law at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but took a year off before going to law school to try his hand at acting. He worked in the theater for 10 years before getting his break on television.
Graduate of Pennsbury High School in Levittown, PA.
Is the elder of two siblings.
Was a member of Second City's Chicago and L.A. troupes.
Is a cousin of Barbra Streisand's late stepfather and her half-sister, singer/entertainer, Roslyn Kind.
Is the son-in-law of James C. Stanley.
He was awarded the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Bounce"" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago
Quotes
I don't want people to know my name. I just want people to love me.
[re friend and fellow actor Bobby Cannavale] Here's the difference between Bobby and me. After a show, people wait at the stage door for him because they want to be near him, like maybe it will rub off. They don't need to touch me. They just tell me their mother likes me.