Rob Reiner and wife found dead in their Los Angeles home: What to know

Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead inside their Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon in what police are investigating as an apparent homicide. 

“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time,” said Reiner’s family in a statement obtained by Variety.

Los Angeles police launch investigation

Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division detectives were called to the couple’s Brentwood home at around 3:40 p.m. Sunday after learning that two people had been found dead. They responded to the property after being asked to by Los Angeles Fire Department crews, who were the first to be called to the scene. 

Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were later identified as the victims, sources told CBS News. LAPD detectives still haven’t publicly identified the deceased or provided the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

During a news conference on Sunday night, LAPD Deputy Chief Allen Hamilton said that they had not identified a suspect “at this time.” Hamilton said that they were “not seeking anyone as a suspect, or as a person of interest or in any other manner, and we will not be doing that until we conduct our investigation and move forward.”

Rob Reiner’s legendary life and career in Hollywood

Reiner first gained fame in the CBS sitcom “All in the Family,” in which he played Archie Bunker’s son-in-law Mike “Meathead” Stivic. He won two Emmys for the role before he went on to star in “Sleepless in Seattle,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Everyone’s Hero” and “The First Wives Club.”

Reiner is highly regarded for directing multiple classic films, including “The Princess Bride,” “Misery,” “A Few Good Men,” “Stand By Me” and “When Harry Met Sally…” He also wrote and directed the mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap,” which was followed by a sequel, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which was released in September. 

Over the course of his six-decade career, Reiner was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globes and one Academy Award. 

He is the son of Carl Reiner, the iconic comedian and actor who had a career spanning decades. Along with starring in films like “Oh God!,” “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels, he is also the creator of the “Dick Van Dyke Show.” He died in 2020 at 98 years old. 

In 2017, Carl and Rob became the first father-son duo to be memorialized outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, when they left their handprints and footprints in the cement. 

Reiner married his wife, Michele, in 1989, after they  met during the filming of “When Harry Met Sally…” In 2016, Reiner told the AV Club during an interview that meeting Michele led to him changing the end of the movie, in which Harry and Sally end up together.

They had three children together.

Reiner was previously married to the late director Penny Marshall, and is the adoptive father of her daughter, actress Tracy Reiner.