Josh Pais
Josh Pais (born June 21, 1964) is an American actor of film and television.
He has appeared in many Hollywood films, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in which he both was in the costume and was the voice) as Raphael, Music of the Heart, Scream 3, It Runs in the Family, Little Manhattan and Find Me Guilty. He played Assistant M.E. Borak in 15 episodes of the series Law & Order, between 1990 and 2002. He also played the Spanish teacher in the film Assassination of a High School President.
Pais is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill) and Abraham Pais, a Dutch-American Jewish physicist, professor and writer. Pais married actress Lisa Emery on August 27, 1990; the two have a son, actor Zane Pais.
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Josh Pais Movies
Discover the best Josh Pais movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Josh Pais ranked by year and score.
1
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)
Drama
Linda is barely holding it together, and she knows it. Her child suffers from an illness no one can quite explain, her husband has effectively vanished from her life, and...
Score
6.3
2
The Friend (2025)
Comedy
Drama
When a deceased mentor leaves her prized Great Dane to a reclusive New York writer, Iris inherits far more than she bargained for. Apollo's massive paws and boundless energy demolish...
Score
6.7
3
Joker (2019)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Gotham City in the 1980s is a place rotting from the inside, and Arthur Fleck is rotting right along with it. A man who desperately wants to make people laugh,...
Score
8.1
4
That Awkward Moment (2014)
Comedy
Romance
Three friends swear off relationships after one of them gets dumped. The pact seems ironclad until each man quietly falls for someone new, forcing them to navigate the contradiction between...
Score
6.1
5
Detachment (2011)
Drama
Henry Barthes drifts through public schools like a ghost, filling in where teachers have given up or burned out, never planting roots long enough to be hurt by what he...
Score
7.6
6
Adventureland (2009)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
The summer of 1987 was supposed to be James Brennan's grand European adventure. Instead, a financial gut-punch from his parents lands him behind the games counter at a ramshackle amusement...
Score
6.4
7
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Drama
Caden Cotard is a theater director slowly losing his grip on everything: his health, his marriages, his sense of time. His response is to build an exact, ever-expanding replica of...
Score
7.5
8
Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Comedy
Crime
Mystery
Bobby Funke is a nobody at St. Donovan's High, but landing a scoop for the school paper changes everything. When stolen SAT exams turn a seemingly bulletproof class president into...
Score
5.8
9
Watching the Detectives (2007)
Comedy
Romance
Neil runs a small video store and has spent most of his adult life perfectly happy watching other people have adventures on screen. Then Violet walks in, and suddenly his...
Score
6.3
10
The Station Agent (2003)
Comedy
Drama
A railroad enthusiast with dwarfism retreats to an abandoned train station in rural New Jersey seeking peace away from the world. His carefully constructed solitude crumbles when a gregarious hot...
Score
7.3
11
Phone Booth (2003)
Crime
Thriller
Stuart Shepard is the kind of Manhattan spin doctor who makes his living controlling narratives. Then he answers a payphone on West 53rd Street and loses all control entirely. The...
Score
6.9
12
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Drama
Romance
John Forbes Nash Jr. arrived at Princeton with a mind that could reshape mathematics and an ego to match. His early work earned him a rare kind of genius-level recognition,...
Score
7.9
13
Scream 3 (2000)
Horror
Mystery
Sidney Prescott has gone into hiding, but Hollywood has other plans. When a new Ghostface begins picking off cast and crew during the production of Stab 3, the slasher franchise...
Score
6.0
14
A Civil Action (1998)
Drama
Jan Schlichtmann starts out trying to dump a nuisance lawsuit as quickly as possible. Then the numbers shift, and what looked like a loser case starts looking like a fortune....
Score
6.5
15
Rounders (1998)
Crime
Drama
Mike McDermott reads poker tables the way other people read faces, but one brutal loss to a cold Russian mobster named Teddy KGB wipes him out and pushes him toward...
Score
7.0
16
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Four sewage-dwelling reptiles trained in martial arts by a wise rat must overcome their bickering teenage personalities to battle a fascist ninja warlord and his army of masked foot soldiers....
Score
6.7
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Josh Pais?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Josh Pais are If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Friend, and Joker.
How many movies and TV shows has Josh Pais starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 16 titles starring Josh Pais, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Josh Pais worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Josh Pais maintains a strong average user rating of 6.8 out of 10 across all tracked titles.