Paul Reubens Parents: Meet Miton Rubenfeld & Judy Rubenfeld

Paul Reubens was born to Miton Rubenfeld and Judy Rubenfeld. His mother was a teacher.

His father was an automobile salesperson who had flown from Britain’s Royal Air Force and for the US Army Air Force in World War II, and later became one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, an Orthodox Jew, he was one of five Jewish pilots to fly against Arab forces in smuggled fighter planes.

Paul Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe, The Groundings in the 1970s, and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, Reubens began appearing in a show about a character he had been developing for years.

Reubens played a flamboyant hairdresser turned drug dealer in Ted Demme’s 2001 drama Blow, which starred Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp. His performance was praised and he began receiving scripts for potential movie projects.