Richard Kind

Kind was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is the son of Alice, a homemaker, and Samuel Kind, a jeweler who formerly owned La Vake's Jewelry in Princeton. His family is of Russian Jewish origin and his ancestors lived in the Pale of Settlement region of the Russian Empire. His great grandfather Hyman Berson immigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City and worked as a peddler before running a crayon factory. Berson was murdered in 1933. When Kind was in the fourth grade, he moved with his family to Yardley, Pennsylvania, where he grew up alongside his younger sister, Joanne. He attended Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills with fellow actor Robert Curtis Brown, graduating in 1974. In 1978, he graduated from Northwestern University, where he was in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. After four years in New York City, he returned to Chicago where he joined other Northwestern alumni in the Practical Theatre Company. In 1983, during one of their productions, he was recruited to The Second City by co-founder Bernard Sahlins, from which he is an alumnus. ==Career==

Television Kind was an ensemble member in Carol Burnett’s short lived variety show, Carol & Company (1990-1991). Kind then portrayed Dr. Mark Devanow on Mad About You (1992-99), throughout the show's run, and played the role of Paul Lassiter on Spin City (1996-2002). He appeared in eight episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, In 2023, he played Saint Peter in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part II. Kind later went on to play the part of a casting director in Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Voice work His voice credits include Tom in Tom and Jerry: The Movie, In 2021, he narrated several commercials for Freestyle Libre, a device for diabetes patients to monitor their glucose levels. Kind voiced Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong in Pixar's Inside Out. He provides the voice of Olly and Saraline's dad Harvey Timbers in Welcome to the Wayne. In 2021, he voiced the Doopler on Star Trek: Lower Decks. == Personal life ==

Kind was married to Dana Stanley from 1999 to 2018. They have three children: a son, Max, and two daughters, Samantha and Skylar. Kind resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was inducted into the Pennsbury High School Hall of Fame in the inaugural class on October 13, 2022. Prior to landing his role on ER, George Clooney stayed at Kind’s apartment in Los Angeles. While living there, Clooney played numerous pranks on Kind including one culminating with Clooney defecating in Kind's cat's litter box. Clooney also duped Kind into thinking he was both a Jeopardy expert and an aspiring painter. == Filmography ==

• Bounce: Original Cast Recording (2004) • Original Cast Album: Co-Op (Lakeshore Records, 2019) == Awards and nominations ==