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Josh Pais

Actor

Josh Pais

Acting
1989 — present · 36 films
Born
21 June 1964 · age 61
From
New York City, New York, USA

Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television.

Career Signature

How Josh Pais’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.

bittersweet
crowd-pleaser
family dynamics
friendship and loss
heavy emotional

Tuned by the Perfery ranker. Aggregated equal-weight across every acted-in film.

Tonal kin

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Filmography

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

2025

The Friend

2025

Funny Pages

2022

Joker

2019

Motherless Brooklyn

2019

The Land of Steady Habits

2018

Going in Style

2017

Crown Heights

2017

The Family Fang

2016

I Saw the Light

2016

Bakery in Brooklyn

2016

That Awkward Moment

2014

5 Flights Up

2014

Syrup

2013

Touchy Feely

2013

Arbitrage

2012

Please Give

2010

Leaves of Grass

2009

Adventureland

2009

Gentlemen Broncos

2009

Synecdoche, New York

2008

Assassination of a High School President

2008

Year of the Dog

2007

Watching the Detectives

2007

Find Me Guilty

2006

Little Manhattan

2005

Phone Booth

2003

The Station Agent

2003

It Runs in the Family

2003

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Scotland, PA

2001

Scream 3

2000

Music of the Heart

1999

Safe Men

1998

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

Jacknife

1989