Josh Pais

Q: Has Josh Pais received any awards?

While Josh Pais has not won major awards, he has been recognized for his performances in independent films and has a strong following in the acting community.

Q: When did Josh Pais start his acting career?

Josh Pais began his acting career in the late 1980s, appearing in various television shows and films, gradually building a reputation for his unique character portrayals.

Q: What is Josh Pais's most successful film?

One of Josh Pais's most successful films is 'The Shrink Next Door,' where he plays a significant role alongside well-known actors, contributing to its popularity.

Q: What is Josh Pais's background?

Josh Pais was born in New York City and grew up in a creative environment. His parents encouraged his artistic pursuits, leading him to pursue acting and writing.

Q: What is Josh Pais's estimated net worth?

Josh Pais's estimated net worth is around $1 million, reflecting his work in film, television, and his contributions as a director and writer.

Q: What types of roles is Josh Pais known for?

Josh Pais is known for his character roles that often blend humor and drama. He has a reputation for taking on complex characters in both independent and mainstream films.

Q: What other skills does Josh Pais have?

In addition to acting, Josh Pais is a trained martial artist and has experience in directing and writing, showcasing his diverse talents in the entertainment industry.

Known for

Joker (2019)

2019 / Crime, Drama / 122mins

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

2003 / Action, Adventure / 22mins

When four pet turtles were bathed in alien ooze, they began to mutate and became the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Raised in New York...

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

IMDb 8.2 / 10

2001 / Biography, Drama / 135 min

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the...

Name

Josh Pais

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

21 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Samantha McLachlan (2000–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Robert Pais, Judith Pais

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie If I Had Legs I'd Kick You With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing...	Brad	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2025	Movie The Friend New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths...	Jerry	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2024	TV A Man in Full Facing relentless foes and sudden bankruptcy, an Atlanta real estate tycoon must claw his way back to the top when...	Herb Richman	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2023	Movie Checkout Dov, an undercover Mossad agent, gets called for retirement, just as the Mossad's number one target walks into the Turkish...	Dov	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	Movie You Hurt My Feelings A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.	Josh Pais	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2022	Movie Spoiler Alert Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed...	Scott	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Funny Pages A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.	Lewis	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2022	TV The Dropout The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs...	Wade Miquelon	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	TV Power Book III: Raising Kanan Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.	Lowell Gelfand	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2021	Movie The Mimic Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper...	The Neurotic Lawyer	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2020	TV The Plot Against America An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the...	Maurice Silverman	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	Movie Motherless Brooklyn New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his...	William Lieberman	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	TV Mrs. Fletcher Empty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her...	Barry	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	Movie Joker During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in...	Hoyt Vaughn	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2019	TV Tales of the City Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them...	Doug	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	TV Maniac Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve...	Andy	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie The Land of Steady Habits After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces...	Larry Eastwood	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2017	Movie Crown Heights When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.	District Attorney Maffeo	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie Going in Style Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking...	Chuck Lofton	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie Bakery in Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants...	Lawyer	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2016	Movie The Family Fang A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.	Freeman	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2016	Movie I Saw the Light Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on...	Dore Schary	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	TV Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Johnny Rock is the aging lead singer of NYC's legendary early-'90s band The Heathens, who is trying to get both...	Ira Feinbaum	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2015	TV Younger Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly...	Todd Heller	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2014	Movie 5 Flights Up A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and...	Jackson	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie That Awkward Moment Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the...	Fred	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2013	Movie Touchy Feely Abby is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul thrives on routine, running a...	Paul	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2013	TV Ray Donovan Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power...	Stu Feldman	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2013	Movie Syrup A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his...	Davidson	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2013	TV Alpha House Four Republican senators share the same D.C. house rental, and face re-election battles, looming indictments, and parties -- all with...	Owen Lefkowitz	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	Movie Price Check A middle aged, middle class, former music industry executive with a stay-at-home wife and son toils away at a supermarket...	Doug Cain	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Normals With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug trial to make...	Dr. Honeysack	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Arbitrage A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him...	John Aimes	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2011	TV 2 Broke Girls Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in...	Leo	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie Detachment A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of...	Meredith's Father	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2011	Movie Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective A year in the making, Still Screaming is the definitive documentary on the making of the iconic Scream movies. Dive...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2011	Movie The Key Man An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family,...	Dr. Abraham Meyer	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2010	Movie Please Give In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in...	Adam	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	Movie Gentlemen Broncos A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.	Todd Keefe	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2009	TV The Good Wife Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and...	Henry Lampe	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2009	Movie Leaves of Grass An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local...	Ken Feinman	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	TV Michael & Michael Have Issues Longtime collaborators Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter (co-founders of The State comedy troupe, which spawned the same-named MTV show)...	Jim Biederman	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie Adventureland It's the summer of 1987, and recent college grad James Brennan can't wait to begin his long-anticipated dream trip to...	Mr. Lewin	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2009	Movie Reunion Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to...	Saul	Not rated
2008	Movie Synecdoche, New York A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size...	Ophthalmologist	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2008	Movie Teeth Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and...	Dr. Godfrey	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2008	Movie Assassination of a High School President After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask...	Padre Newell	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2008	Movie Lifelines Mom Nancy, a schoolteacher, is unable to handle the constant barrage of hostility from her three children. Husband Ira is...	Ira Bernstein	TMDB 3.4 / 10
2007	TV Damages Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers...	George Berber	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2007	TV The Bronx Is Burning In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife, and...	Reporter Phil Pepe	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2007	Movie Watching the Detectives Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite...	Andy	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2007	Movie Year of the Dog A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.	Robin	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	TV Psych Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a...	Richard Umma	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2006	Movie Unconscious Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about...	Warner Wilcott	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Find Me Guilty Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the...	Harry Bellman	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Confess A young ex-hacker, disgruntled with his life, lashes back at those deemed responsible, uploading unfavorable video footage of them on...	Allen Kelner	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2005	Movie Little Manhattan Ten-year-old Gabe Burton is just an average kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his karate class....	Ronny	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	TV Rescue Me The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin....	Leon	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2003	Movie The Station Agent When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of...	Carl	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2003	TV Hope & Faith Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves...	Harvey Zak	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2003	Movie It Runs in the Family This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile	Barney	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Phone Booth A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he...	Mario	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2002	Movie Porn 'n Chicken In 1996, five overworked Yale undergrads formed a club to watch porno films on weekends while ingesting mass quantities of...	Prof. Hoffman	TMDB 3.7 / 10
2001	Movie A Beautiful Mind From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant...	Princeton Professor	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2001	TV Law & Order: Criminal Intent The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following...	Noah Brezner	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2001	TV Law & Order: Criminal Intent The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following...	Ralph Friedman	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2001	Movie Scotland, PA In a modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania, Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven...	Douglas McKenna	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie Swimming Swimming is a bittersweet and intimate look at friendship, love and growing up. The easy life of summertime in Myrtle...	Neil Wheeler	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Scream 3 As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings,...	Wallace	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Music of the Heart After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a...	Dennis	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Robert Sorensen	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Hank Abraham	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	Movie A Civil Action Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it...	Law Clerk	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	Movie Rounders Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American...	Weitz	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie Safe Men Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are...	Mitchell	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1998	TV Sex and the City Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all...	Nick Waxler	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1997	Movie Colin Fitz Two security guards, Paul and Grady, are hired to guard the grave of dead rock legend, Colin Fitz. Through the...	Cathartic Fan	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie I'm Not Rappaport Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter,...	Rodney	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	TV Homicide: Life on the Street An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.	M.E. #2	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1993	TV Star Trek: Deep Space Nine At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of...	Gaila	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Cioran	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Borak	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Mr. Mosley	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	Movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace...	Raphael (voice) / Passenger In Cab	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1989	Movie Jacknife A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with...	Rick	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1988	TV Murphy Brown Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following...	Secretary #18	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1984	TV The Cosby Show The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from...	Andy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Karma Local An engaging comic thriller about a young Indian newsstand clerk who stumbles onto a more exciting life when he agrees...	Charlie	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into...	Weatherman Phil	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2003	Movie 7th Street Prepare for a unique glimpse into the seismic impact of gentrification on a neighborhood in New York City's East Village...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

2025 / TMDB 6.3

The Friend

2025 / TMDB 6.6

Checkout

2023 / TMDB 6.0

You Hurt My Feelings

2023 / TMDB 6.3

Spoiler Alert

2022 / TMDB 7.0

Funny Pages

2022 / TMDB 5.7

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