John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office. He later directed and starred in the drama film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and the comedy-drama film The Hollars. In 2013, he co-wrote, directed, and starred with Emily Blunt in the horror-thriller film A Quiet Place. He also portrays the title character in the Amazon spy thriller series Jack Ryan.
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John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office. He later directed and starred in the drama film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and the comedy-drama film The Hollars. In 2013, he co-wrote, directed, and starred with Emily Blunt in the horror-thriller film A Quiet Place. He also portrays the title character in the Amazon spy thriller series Jack Ryan, on which he is also a co-producer. He has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018. He and Blunt have two children together. Krasinksi was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Irish mother and a Polish father. His mother has Irish ancestry, while his father is of Polish descent. He went to Brown University to study English, and graduated in 2001 as a playwright with the honors thesis \” Contents Under Pressure\”. He interned as a scriptwriter on the show Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In 2000, he also helped coach youth basketball at the Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island. He then attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. He studied at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and the Actors Center in New York. He appeared in commercials and guest-starred on television shows, as well as doing readings of off-Broadway plays while working as a waiter.
His breakthrough came in 2004 when he was cast in The Office, a remake of the successful British TV series. In the series, a mockumentary about life at a mid-sized paper supply company, he played the role ofJim Halpert, an intelligent and mild-mannered sales representative and, in later seasons, co-manager of the paper distribution company. He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. In 2007, he directed and co-produced Jason Carvey’s independently produced, New Wave-to-DVD comedy A New Wave of New Wave with Andrew Keegan, Andrew Labert, and Lacey Chabert. In 2008, he wrote and starred as the love interest of Jenna Fischer in the series To prepare for the love of Jenna Dlin in To prepare For The Love of Jenna, he shot the footage for the opening credits of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 2009, he appeared in every episode of the series and also directed the independently produced comedy A Wave Of New Wave With Andrew Chaberton, Andrew Chavarrette, and Jenna Fischer. In 2010, he starred in a film about the life of a New York City police officer called The Detectives. In 2011, he was a producer and occasional director in the film The Holiday, starring in which he also wrote, produced, and directed. In 2012, he had a starring role in the movie The Holiday with co-stars Amy Adams and Amy Poehler.
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