John Krasinski

John Krasinski

actor, producer, director

John Krasinski was born on Oct 20, 1979 in USA. John Krasinski's big-screen debut came with State and Main directed by David Mamet in 2000, strarring Judge's Assistant (uncredited). John Krasinski is known for DC League of Super-Pets directed by Jared Stern, Dwayne Johnson stars as Krypto and Kevin Hart as Ace. John Krasinski has got 17 awards and 76 nominations so far. The most recent award John Krasinski achieved is Media Access Awards. The upcoming new movie John Krasinski plays is A Quiet Place: Day One which will be released on Mar 08, 2024.

Tall, handsome American film and television star John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV series, The Office (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, he is the youngest of three brothers. His mother, Mary Claire (Doyle), is a nurse, and his father, Ronald Krasinski, is an internist. His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry.His first stage experience was starring in a satirical high school play, written and cast by his classmate B.J. Novak. Also good at sports, he played on the same Little League baseball team as Novak, later a writer and co-star on The Office (2005). After graduating from Newton South High School in 1997, Krasinski planned to be an English major and deferred his first semester of college to teach English in Costa Rica. He attended Brown University, graduating in 2001, as a playwright with honors, then studied at the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.During the summer of 2000, he worked as a script intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993). Krasinski made his big screen debut in 2002, then played several small roles like "Ben" in Dr. Kinsey (2004), and "Bob Flynn" in Duane Hopwood (2005). He appeared as "Corporal Harrigan" in Jarhead - La fin de l'innocence (2005), by director Sam Mendes, then played a supporting role as "Ben" in The Holiday (2006), a romantic comedy by director Nancy Meyers. He is billed as the voice of "Lancelot" in Shrek le troisième (2007). Krasinski co-starred opposite Robin Williams and Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy Permis de mariage (2007), as well as with George Clooney and Renée Zellweger in the football screwball comedy, Jeux de dupes (2008). He is also director and writer of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009), a big screen adaptation of the eponymous collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace. He followed that film up with La Famille Hollar (2016), a family drama, and Sans un bruit (2018), a well-received horror film that had one of the biggest opening weekends for the genre.Krasinski is married to English actress Emily Blunt, with whom he has two children. He claims Los Angeles as his home but travels to New York City and his hometown of Newton, MA, frequently.

  • Birthday

    Oct 20, 1979
  • Place of Birth

    Newton, Massachusetts, USA
  • Also known

    John Burke Krasinski, 约翰·卡拉辛斯基

Known For

Awards

17 wins & 76 nominations

Media Access Awards
2021
(for A Quiet Place II)
Winner - IMDbPro - Media Access Award for Excellence in Directing
2018
A Quiet Place (2018)
Winner - WGAW Evan Somers Memorial Award
The Webby Awards
2020
Special Achievement
Winner - Webby Award
Some Good News (2020)
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