Rob Reiner’s family includes three generations of actors and screenwriters, following in the steps of patriarch and comedy legend Carl Reiner.
The family of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner is grieving after the couple was reportedly found dead at their home after an apparent homicide.
The deaths of the celebrated actor and director, and his producer wife, are under investigation after the couple was found in their Los Angeles home in the city’s Brentwood neighborhood, according to Variety and TMZ. Their son Nick Reiner has been taken into police custody and is being held on no bail, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department records reviewed by USA TODAY.
Rob Reiner’s family includes three generations of actors and screenwriters, following in the steps of patriarch and comedy legend Carl Reiner. His children are also actors and writers in their own right.
Here’s what to know about Rob Reiner’s family.
Rob Reiner, wife found dead in home, LAPD investigating as homicide
Actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead in their Brentwood home. LAPD is investigating as an “apparent homicide.”
Rob Reiner’s producer and collaborator, wife Michele Singer Reiner
Michele Singer was a one-time photographer who captured the image of Donald Trump that appears on the cover of his book “Trump: The Art of the Deal.” The couple met while Rob Reiner was filming “When Harry Met Sally …” and he often credits her with inspiring the film’s happy ending. They married in 1989.
Michele Reiner helped produce Rob Reiner’s 2025 comedy “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” as well as the documentary “God & Country” and the 2017 docudrama “Shock and Awe.” They worked together as executives at production company Castle Rock Entertainment, which Rob Reiner co-founded.
Michele and Rob Reiner’s children: Nick, Jake and Romy
The couple shared three children: actors Jake Reiner and Romy Reiner, and screenwriter Nick Reiner.
The couple’s children have done extensive work in acting and writing: Their youngest child, Romy, 28, starred in the 2023 film “You People” and is writing an upcoming TV series; their oldest son, Jake, is starring in the upcoming comedy “Love and Taxe$” and the 2025 comedy “Things Like This.” Meanwhile, their younger son, Nick, has one credit on his IMDb page: the 2015 semi-autobiographical drama “Being Charlie,” a film he co-wrote and enlisted his father to direct.
Rob Reiner also adopted actress Tracy Reiner, the daughter of his first wife, the late actress and filmmaker Penny Marshall.
Rob Reiner’s Hollywood parents: Estelle and Carl Reiner
Reiner grew up in the entertainment business − his father was “Ocean’s Eleven” actor Carl Reiner and his mother, Estelle, was a jazz singer and actress.
Carl Reiner, who died in 2020 at 98, was an Emmy Award-winning comic actor and writer for “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and a Grammy-winning recording artist, for the comedy album “The 2,000 Year Old Man,” based on his routine with longtime collaborator Mel Brooks.
Estelle Reiner made small acting appearances in addition to reviving her jazz singing career in the 1960s, including in the 1983 Mel Brooks comedy “To Be or Not to Be” and in Carl Reiner’s 1983 dark comedy “The Man with Two Brains.”
Boasting deep industry ties, Rob Reiner became famous in his own right for his Emmy-winning portrayal of Archie Bunker’s son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic on the groundbreaking sitcom “All in the Family.” He went on to direct and create beloved films “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride,” “Misery,” “A Few Good Men” and “When Harry Met Sally …”
He cast his mother as an extra in rom-com classic “When Harry Met Sally” for a scene at a New York deli where Meg Ryan faked an orgasm. “First couple of times, she didn’t do it full out,” Reiner said of directing Ryan in the scene. “Finally, I sat across from Billy (Crystal). And I acted it for her. … And I’m pounding the table, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’ And I’m realizing I’m having an orgasm in front of my mother, you know? There’s my mother over there.” His mother’s line – “I’ll have what she’s having” – became one of the most famous lines in film.
Contributing: Wendy Naugle, USA TODAY; Reuters