Richard Kind | |
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Born | Richard Bruce Kind November 22, 1956 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education | Northwestern University (BA) |
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Years active | 1978–present |
Spouse |
Dana Stanley
(m. 1999; div. 2018) |
Children | 3 |
Richard Bruce Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include Dr. Mark Devanow in Mad About You (1992–1999, 2019), Paul Lassiter in Spin City (1996–2002), Stargate Atlantis (2006), Andy in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002–2021), and Captain Stan Yenko in East New York (2022–2023). He appeared in the films Johns (1996), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006), Big Stan (2007), A Serious Man (2009), The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014), All We Had (2016), Rifkin's Festival (2020), Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021), and The Out-Laws (2023).
Kind's voice performances in various Pixar films include Molt in A Bug's Life (1998), Van in the first two films of the Cars franchise(2006–2011), Bookworm in Toy Story 3 (2010), and Bing Bong in Inside Out (2015). He voices Marty Glouberman in the Netflix animated series Big Mouth (2017–present). Kind was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Marcus Hoff in the 2013 Broadway production of The Big Knife.