Rick Shapiro

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-04-13 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

New Jersey, USA

Rick Shapiro

Biography

Rick Shapiro (born April 13, 1959) is a Los Angeles-based comedian and actor. He started his career in the early 1980s as a comedian at Catch A Rising Star on Broadway. Besides performing regularly on stage, throughout the 1990s he acted and starred in numerous films by Louis CK, including Tomorrow Night. Additionally, he portrayed the re-occurring character "Angry Poet" in Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 1998, Shapiro released his first comedy CD called Unconditional Love, which Billboard called "hard-edged and uncompromising". In the 2000s, he performed stand-up comedy nationally and internationally, debuting a one-man show in 2007 in th...

Acting

1996

2001

Pootie Tang

as Shakey

2017

1993

Ice Cream

as Man's Brother

1998

Highjacker

as Highjacker

1998

2016

Timeless

as State’s Attorney / Repairman / Secret Agent / Paratrooper

2014

2012

Project X

as T-Rick

1986

1989

True Love

as Kevin

1990

Caesar's Salad

as Richard Black (Poet)

2018

Duvall Et Al

as Duvall

1998

2014

Prison Pit: Book One

as Prison Guards

Production

1998

Brunch

as Writer

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