A genial performer with a broad array of role types and genres on his resumé, Josh Pais grew up in a Manhattan-area East Village tenement with a single mother, and headed to Hollywood in his early twenties with the dream of making it as an actor. In seemingly no time, Pais realized this goal, first with a series of guest appearances on such series as Murphy_Brown, The_Cosby_Show, and Law & Order (in a recurring part as Assistant Medical Examiner Borak), then with big-screen assignments. He landed the first of these when tapped to play "ninja turtle" Raphael in the action comedy Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_The_Movie (1990); the role almost completely obscured Pais' countenance (he appeared in a suit designed by Jim_Henson and co.), but a secondary part in the same film (as a taxi passenger) partially redeemed this drawback. After additional acting assignments in features including Music of the Heart (1999) and Scream_3 (2000), Pais branched out into writing and directing with the self-reflexive autobiographical documentary 7th_Street (2002) and the instructional video The Spiritual Guide to Weight Loss (2003). He then took on acting roles in such features as The_Station_Agent (2003), Little_Manhattan (2005), Year of the Dog (2007), and Teeth (2007). Nathan Southern, Rovi


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