Biography
John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director and writer. He is widely known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2013. He has also appeared in several films including License to Wed (2007), Leatherheads (2008), Away We Go (2009), It's Complicated (2009), Something Borrowed (2011), Aloha (2015), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), Detroit (2017), and A Quiet Place (2018), which he also directed and co-wrote. Also in 2018, Krasinski returned to television portraying the titular character in the Amazon series Jack Ryan.
Awards & recognition
- Time 100 · 2018
- Theatre World Award · 2016
Filmography50+ titles
The Office
BoJack Horseman
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Manchester by the Sea
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Free Guy
A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place
Born in China
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Detroit
13 Hours
Without a Trace
DC League of Super-Pets
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Mistaken for Strangers
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Monsters University
The Holiday
IF
Next Gen
American Dad!
Saturday Night Live
Big Miracle
The Muppets
Away We Go
Dreamgirls
Jarhead
A Quiet Place: Day One
Dream Corp LLC
Kinsey
It's Complicated
Lip Sync Battle
Fountain of Youth
Animal Crackers
The Hollars
Promised Land
Monsters vs. Aliens
Shrek the Third
State and Main
Curses!
Something Borrowed
Apartment 7A
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Smiley Face
Leatherheads
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon