- Born
- Birth nameJoshua Atwill Pais
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Josh Pais (P-EYE-CE) is currently featured in the new Netflix limited series "A Man in Full," written by the award-winning creator behind "Big Little Lies," where he portrays the high-powered businessman 'Herb Richman' opposite Jeff Daniels. Most recently, Josh was seen in the award-winning Hulu miniseries "The Dropout" with Amanda Seyfried, and is playing music producer 'Lowell Gelfand,' in the latest season of Starz' "Power Book III: Raising Kanan." Josh will continue his work on the series into season five. He just completed production on the upcoming independent feature film "The Friend" with Naomi Watts and Bill Murray.
Josh Pais (P-EYE-CE) grew up in NYC's infamous Alphabet City. He is a celebrated actor, known for his spontaneity and ability to richly inhabit every character he brings to life. Pais began his career playing Raphael in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie followed by Sex and the City as the modelizer. With over 150 film and TV credits you have seen him in The Dropout, A Man in Full, Younger, Ray Donovan (as Stu Feldman), A long run on SVU, High Maintenance, Joker opposite Joaquin Phoenix, to name a few. He’s worked alongside Hollywood legends such as Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Edward Norton. Pais has several features dropping in the coming year.
He was raised in a world most of us can’t imagine. His father a theoretical physicist who worked with Einstein. His mother a poet and painter. From the clash between logic and art, precision and chaos came a breakthrough which Josh writes about in his book: Lose Your Mind, The Path to Creative Invincibility (Random House/ Hay House).
Behind the scenes Josh is the founder of Committed Impulse, a liberating approach to acting that has become a secret weapon not just for working actors, but for entrepreneurs, artists, and people from all professions who have learned to trust a level of aliveness and spontaneity they never knew possible. Committedimpulse.com
- IMDb mini biography by: Innovative Artists Agency
- SpouseLisa Emery(1990 - 2003) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsLila Lee Atwill
- RelativesKaatje van Kleeff(Grandparent)Isaiah Pais(Grandparent)
- He was the only actor in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) to both wear the turtle costume and provide the voice for his character (Raphael).
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (1990) in his Raphael costume, he was chasing Casey Jones from the park and he tumbled over the hood of a Taxi, then the scene cut to the passenger in the Taxi asking what that was, the passenger was Josh Pais out of costume.
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