John Krasinski

Acting · Born 1979-10-20 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Known for

• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026)
• Fountain of Youth (2025)
• IF (2024)
• Cities of the Future (2024)
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
• A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
• Free Guy (2021)
• David Blaine: The Magic Way (2020)
• A Quiet Place (2018)
• Detroit (2017)
• The Hollars (2016)
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
• Past Forward (2016)
• Born in China (2016)
• Aloha (2015)
• Sleep Cycle (2014)
• Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
• Mistaken for Strangers (2013)
• The Office Retrospective (2013)
• Nobody Walks (2012)
• Big Miracle (2012)
• Promised Land (2012)
• The Office: Secret Santa Pack (2012)
• Something Borrowed (2011)