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John Krasinski
Krasinski in August 2006
Born	John Burke Krasinski October 20, 1979 (1979-10-20) (age 29) Boston, Massachusetts
Awards won Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Ensemble - Comedy Series 2006 The Office 2007 The Office

John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director and writer. He is most widely known for playing Jim Halpert on NBC's The Office.

Biography

Personal life

Krasinski was born in the Brighton section of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of nurse Mary Clare (née Doyle) and Polish-American father internist Dr. Ronald Krasinski.¹² He has two older brothers, Kevin and Paul, and was raised Catholic in the suburb of Newton, Massachusetts.³

He attended the same high school as B.J. Novak, later his co-star (Ryan Howard) on The Office and also a writer and co-producer on episodes of the show.⁴ Krasinski graduated from Newton South High School in 1997.⁴

Before college, he took a semester off to teach English in Costa Rica.⁵ He went to Brown University, where he graduated in 2001 as a playwright, writing an honors thesis titled "Contents Under Pressure".⁶ During his time at Brown, he helped coach youth basketball at The Gordon School in East Providence, RI, and also participated as a co-coordinator of the mid-year orientation. He then attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.

Career

Krasinski's first stage experience was starring in a satirical play written and cast by B. J. Novak for Newton South High School.⁴⁷ He decided to continue acting after doing a reading of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.⁸ Besides training at the National Theatre Institute, he also studied at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and The Actor's Center in New York City.⁹ After graduating from Brown University, Krasinski went to New York City to pursue acting, doing commercials and guest spots on television shows, but also doing readings of off-Broadway plays and working as a waiter^{citation needed}. He starred in the play "What the Eunuch Saw," directed and written by a former college classmate.¹⁰

Krasinski spent the summer of 2000 as a script intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.¹¹¹²In addition to his role on The Office, Krasinski's television credits include appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Without A Trace, Ed,¹³ American Dad! (as the voice of a squirrel), and an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

His feature film credits include Kinsey, Jarhead, Duane Hopwood, Shrek the Third and The Holiday. He also had cameos in For Your Consideration and Dreamgirls. He wrote and directed a film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2008).

He starred as Gideon in A New Wave, which was filmed before he was on The Office and released in 2007. He also starred as Brevin in Smiley Face, which was filmed in 2006. More recently, he had major supporting roles in the films License to Wed, with Mandy Moore and Robin Williams, and Leatherheads with George Clooney and Renee Zellweger. From April to June 2008, he filmed with Jarhead director Sam Mendes an untitled film co-starring Maya Rudolph and Cheryl Hines.¹⁴

Krasinski was featured in People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive issue of 2006 and 2008.¹⁵

Krasinski narrated a series of commercials for Ask.com starting in March 2006, a commercial for the Apple TV in April 2007, and also narrarating in commercials for Verizon about the BlackBerry Storm. Krasinski has appeared in advertisements for the Gap and has narrated television commercials for Best Buy.

Krasinski, along with two friends, filmed the footage of Scranton, Pennsylvania for The Office, including the clips shown in the opening credits.¹⁶

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

• John Krasinski at the Internet Movie Database
• John Krasinski interview for License to Wed and The Office at TheCinemaSource.com