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Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director.

Reiner was born to a show business family: his mother Estelle Reiner was an actress and singer and his father was Carl Reiner, the famous writer, actor, and director. Reiner rose to sudden fame when he played the role of Mike "Meathead" Stivic on the massively popular 1970s sitcom All in the Family. Then, in 1984, he co-wrote and directed the Mockumentary film This is Spın̈al Tap, which was only a modest success at the time but has come to be embraced an all-time classic in addition to serving as the Trope Maker for the Mockumentary genre.

This Is Spinal Tap launched Reiner on a ten-year run of phenomenal success that few Hollywood directors have ever equaled. Between 1984 and 1993 Reiner directed Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men, all of which made money and showered him with critical accolades. Then came the disastrous failure of North, which drew one of Roger Ebert's most famously negative reviews ("I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it.") and seemed to have knocked Reiner permanently off course. He temporarily rebounded with The American President, and “The Bucket List” was a box office hit, but has never again enjoyed the kind of sustained critical and commercial success he had in his first decade as a director. He has kept working, however, still directing films in The New '10s and occasionally acting in television and in films such as The Wolf of Wall Street.

Reiner was married to Penny Marshall for ten years, and has been married to Michele Singer since 1989. He has four children (one adopted in Marshall's daughter, and three with Singer).


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