David Rakoff

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Rakoff
Occupation	Essayist
Date Of Birth	Nov 27, 1964(1964-11-27)
Age	60
Date Of Death	August 9, 2012, Manhattan, New York, NY
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Sagittarius

David Rakoff Biography

David Rakoff is one of the most popular and richest Essayist who was born on November 27, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, 1964 – August 9, 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ’s This American Life. Rakoff described himself as a “New York writer” who also happened to be a “Canadian writer”, a “mega Jewish writer”, a “gay writer”, and an “East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese” writer.

From 1982, Rakoff lived in the United States (minus his four-month stay in Japan in 1986), first as a student, then as a resident alien. In the early 1990s he was issued a green card, a subject about which he wrote in one of his early newspaper articles. After living in the United States for 21 years, Rakoff was motivated by a desire to participate in the political process and applied for U.S. citizenship. Rakoff chronicled the experience of becoming an American citizen in an essay published in Don’t Get Too Comfortable. He became a U.S. citizen in 2003, while at the same time retaining his Canadian citizenship.

David Rakoff Net Worth

David Rakoff is one of the richest Essayist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Rakoff 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Rakoff was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of three children. His brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David. Their sister, Ruth Rakoff, author of the cancer memoir When My World Was Very Small, is the middle child. Rakoff and his siblings were close as children. Rakoff’s mother, Gina Shochat-Rakoff, is a doctor who has practised psychotherapy and his father, Vivian Rakoff, is a psychiatrist. Rakoff wrote that almost every generation of his family fled from one place to another. Rakoff’s grandparents, who were Jewish, fled Latvia and Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century and settled in South Africa. The Rakoff family left South Africa in 1961, for political reasons, and moved to Montreal for seven years. In 1967, when he was three, Rakoff’s family relocated to Toronto. As an adult, he identified as Jewish.

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Rakoff said that his first career choice was to be an actor: he wrote, “like generations of other misfits before me, be they morphological, sexual or otherwise, I decided that I would make theatre my refuge”. Rakoff performed in the theatre at university and acted while working full-time in the publishing industry and later while freelancing as a writer. For instance, he performed at the first US Comedy Arts Festival in 1995 in a play written by a friend. He has said that he likes acting because it involves other people, unlike writing. However, his self-assessment of his acting ability was “as it turns out, I’m a deeply uncompelling camera presence”.

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Essayist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. David Rakoff celebrates birthday on November 27 of every year.

Rakoff appeared in several films, although he noted that almost invariably his part is left on the cutting room floor: “I’ve been cut out of some very august projects.” For instance, he worked on The First Wives’ Club (1996), but his scenes were deleted in favour of Bronson Pinchot’s. Rakoff’s first major film role was in A cloud in trousers, a short film by Gregg Bordowitz (1995) which appeared on public television, with Rakoff playing Vladimir Mayakovsky on whose poetry the film was based. His subsequent film appearances include performances as a librarian in Cheryl Dunyé’s film The Watermelon Woman (1996), an appearance by the back of his head as Ben Baron, who is dismissive to Harper Lee, in Bennett Miller’s Capote (2005), a non-speaking role as Boswell in Paul Dinello’s Strangers with Candy (2005) (which was co-written by Amy Sedaris), and roles as a publishing boss in Bad Bosses Go to Hell (1997) and as a duplicitous director in Alison MacLean’s film Intolerable.