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John Krasinski
Krasinski in August 2006
Born	John Burke Krasinski

John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director and writer. He has worked in several movies, including Shrek the Third, but 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. He has two older brothers, Kevin and Paul, and was raised Catholic in the suburb of Newton, Massachusetts.

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. Krasinksi also performed in a play written by Novak. Krasinski graduated from Newton South High School in 1997.

Before entering college, he took a semester off to teach English in Costa Rica. He went to Brown University, where he graduated in 2001 as a playwright, writing an honors thesis titled "Contents Under Pressure". 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. He decided to continue acting after doing a reading of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. 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. 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. He starred in the play "What the Eunuch Saw," directed and written by a former college classmate.

During the summer of 2000, Krasinski was a script intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.In addition to his role on The Office, Krasinski's television credits include appearances on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Without A Trace, Ed, 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, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009), as an adaptation of David Foster Wallace's work of the same name , which will have its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Festival. It's competing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.

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.

Krasinski was featured in People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive issue of 2006 and 2008.

Krasinski has recently started a career in narration, starting with a number of commercial ads in the United States. He first started narrated a series of commercials for Ask.com starting in March 2006, a commercial for the Apple TV in April 2007, and in late 2008 began narrarating commercials for Verizon's BlackBerry Storm. Krasinski has appeared in print advertisements for the Gap.

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

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. Harrison woman has ties to 'The Office' from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
2. Ancestry of John Krasinski
3. ''Office'' star John Krasinski on his new movie roles | John Krasinski | The Q&A | TV | Entertainment Weekly
4. ^ Boston Globe profile of Krasinski and B.J. Novak
5. Access Extended: Cosmo's Fun Fearless Male Of The Year Awards | Videos | Access Hollywood | Celeb Video Clips, TV Show and Celebrity Video Clips Available Online
6. Brown University Library /All Locations
8. http://www.southstage.org South Stage
9. http://video.wireimage.com/mvMediaPlayer.asp?ItemI=15600751
10. Actor's Resume
11. Itzkoff, Dave (2008-03-08). "Tackling Directing and George Clooney". New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
12. FringeNYC 2002
13. April 19 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien
14. NBC.com Late Night with Conan O'Brien
15. Biography from the NBC website
16. {{cite web|title=American Dad on FOX|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=191371&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=6100065
17. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
19. Krasinski, Rudolph join Mendes filmfrom Variety
20. Sexiest Men Alive 2006 from the People magazine website
21. http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/more-john-krasinski-for-gap/
22. Season 4 DVD- Writers' Q&A

External links

• John Krasinski at IMDb
• John Krasinski interview for License to Wed and The Office at TheCinemaSource.com

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• 1979 births
• American educators
• American film actors
• American Roman Catholics
• American television actors
• American voice actors
• Irish-Americans
• Brown University alumni
• Living people
• Massachusetts actors
• The Office (U.S. TV series)
• People from Boston, Massachusetts
• People from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Americans of Polish descent