JOHN KRASINSKI

Date of Birth: October 20, 1979

John Krasinski has twice shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with his colleagues from the hit NBC show The Office. The program has also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, among other honors.

The Newton, Massachusetts native graduated from Brown University as an honors playwright and later studied at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. He adapted David Foster Wallace's book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men into the independent feature film of the same name, which Krasinski also directed. The movie stars Julianne Nicholson opposite, among other men, Dominic Cooper, Timothy Hutton, Max Minghella and Lou Taylor Pucci.

Among Krasinski's other feature films as an actor are George Clooney's Leatherheads, Bill Condon's Dreamgirls and Kinsey;, Ken Kwapis' License to Wed; Nancy Meyers' The Holiday, Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration and he also provided the voice of Lancelot in Shrek the Third and the voice of Cuthbert in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009). He can be seen playing the role of a slick environmentalist alongside Matt Damon and Frances McDormand in the 2013 drama Promised Land. More recently, he starred in Aloha (2015) alongside Rachel McAdams, as well as 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), Detroit (2017) and Animal Crackers (2017).

Krasinski began dating British actress Emily Blunt in November 2008 and the two tied the knot on July 10, 2010 in the company of celebrity friends like George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stanley Tucci, David Schwimmer, and Meryl Streep.

Filmography:

A Quiet Place (2018)
Animal Crackers (2017)
Detroit (2017)
God Particle (2017)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
The Hollars (2016)
Aloha (2015)
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2014)
The Wind Rises (2013)
Monsters University (2013)
Promised Land (2013)
Big Miracle (2012)
Nobody Walks (2012)
Something Borrowed (2011)
It's Complicated (2009)
Away We Go (2009)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) (voice)
Brief Interviews with Leatherheads (2008)
License to Wed (2007)
Shrek the Third (2007) (voice)
Smiley Face (2007)
Dreamgirls (2006)
The Holiday (2006)
For Your Consideration (2006)
A New Wave (2006)
Doogal (2006)
Jarhead (2005)
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Taxi (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Alma Mater (2002)