Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1956) is an American comedian, actor, television writer, and musician. He is known for his roles as Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom "My Two Dads", Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom "Mad About You", Modell in the 1982 film "Diner", Carter Burke in the 1986 film "Aliens", as Detective Jeffrey Friedman in "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) and "Beverly Hills Cop II" (1987). More recently, Reiser is recognized as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film "Whiplash" and Doug Getty in the Amazon Video series "Red Oaks".

Reiser is ranked 77th on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". The name of Reiser's production company, "Nuance Productions", is inspired by one of his lines in the film "Diner", in which his character explains his discomfort with the word "nuance".

Reiser also stars in the Netflix supernatural-horror series "Stranger Things" as Dr. Sam Owens. Reiser appeared in the second and third seasons of "The Kominsky Method" as Martin, the boyfriend of Mindy Kominsky.

Reiser was born in New York City in 1956, the son of Helen Hollinger Reiser (1919-2012), a homemaker who was one of the first women to graduate from Baruch College, and Samuel H. Reiser (1914-1989), a wholesale health food distributor who served in the military. His family is of Romanian Jewish descent; he has three sisters. Reiser attended the East Side Hebrew Institute and graduated from Stuyvesant High School.

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