Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner have been found dead in LA, a TMZ report confirmed on Sunday night.
Legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, have died at their Los Angeles home, TMZ confirmed on Sunday night. Early reports had stated that the LAPD had found two bodies at their Brentwood home. Now, TMZ has confirmed that the bodies belong to Rob and Michele.
Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner dead
“As we told you … two dead bodies were found in Rob and Michele’s Brentwood home Sunday afternoon — and law enforcement sources tell us it is the Reiners,” the TMZ report stated. The report also cited sources saying the two suffered lacerations consistent with a knife. There is no official statement from the LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Division yet, which is currently investigating the crime.
Who was Rob Reiner?
An actor, director, activist, and performer, Rob Reiner rose to fame as Mike “Meathead” Stivic on the CBS sitcom All in the Family in the 70s. Son of comedian and author Carl Reiner, Rob worked in major films like Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), EDtv (1999), Everyone’s Hero (2006), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
But it was as a director that he made his mark in Hollywood. Rob made his directorial debut with the heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap in 1984. In the 80s, he established himself as one of Hollywood’s most in-demand filmmakers with successful films such as When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, and Stand By Me, before starting the new decade with Misery, and following it up with A Few Good Men, for which he received an Oscar nomination.
Rob Reiner and wife Michele
Rob met photographer Michele Singer on the sets of When Harry Met Sally in the late 80s. They married in 1989, and had three children together. They had been living in their Brentwood home for several years.
Who are Rob Reiner’s ex-wife, wife, and children?
Rob married actress and director Penny Marshall in 1971, and adopted her daughter, actress Tracy Reiner, from a previous marriage to Michael Henry. Rob and Penny divorced in 1981.
Rob was introduced to his second and current wife, actress and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, while directing When Harry Met Sally. The two tied the knot in 1989, and share three children – Jake (born 1991), Nick (born 1993), and Romy (born 1997).
Besides photography, Michelle acted in the 1994 film Mixed Nuts, starring Steve Martin. She notably worked in the Camera and Electrical Department as a photographer in the 1990 movie Misery. She also served as a producer in the 2017 movie Shock and Awe, and the HBO documentary movie Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. Both of these were directed by her husband.
Rob’s former wife Penny, a beloved sitcom and screen actress who gained fame in the late ’70s for her sitcom Laverne & Shirley, died aged 75 in 2018 at her Hollywood Hills home of complications from diabetes. She had been diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in 2009, before she went into remission by 2012.
With Big, Penny became the first woman in Hollywood history in 1988 to direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office. Her drama Awakenings earned a Best Picture nomination just two years later, and she topped $100 million again with A League of Their Own in 1992.
What to know about the recent case
LAPD Robbery Homicide Division detectives were assigned to the case. There was a huge police presence at the home after the bodies were found on Sunday.
Around 3:30 pm, LAFD paramedics were reportedly called to the home on Chadbourne Avenue. LAPD officers were soon dispatched to the home for a report of an, “ambulance death investigation,” a phrase used when officers are called by firefighters to the discovery of a death.
