Jim O'Heir was born on February 4,1962 and is an American actor and comedian, best known for portraying Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.
16 Facts About Jim O'Heir
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Jim O'Heir has appeared in several films and made guest appearances on such shows as Friends, Boston Legal, Malcolm in the Middle, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, ER, Parenthood, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Better Call Saul.
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Jim O'Heir was born in Chicago, and is a graduate of the Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois, and of Loyola University Chicago.
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Jim O'Heir was active in the Chicago theater during the late 1980s and early 1990s, training and performing improvisational comedy at Chicago's Second City and as a member of the six-person sketch comedy troupe "White Noise", which formed in 1987.
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In July 1989, Jim O'Heir appeared in the Chicago premiere of the Tom Griffin play The Boys Next Door at the Edgewater Theatre Center.
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Jim O'Heir played Norman Bulansky, a childlike middle-aged mentally handicapped man who works at a doughnut shop.
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Jim O'Heir played Frank Bubman, the janitor for a genetics laboratory whose job is to destroy the unsuccessful experiments, which are portrayed by puppets.
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Also with White Noise, Jim O'Heir appeared in the play Ad-Nauseam, about a pair of writers who create an ad campaign about a character named Rim Shot, played by Jim O'Heir.
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In 2005, Jim O'Heir played the inmate Dale Harding in Dale Wasserman's stage adaption of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at The Theatre District in Hollywood, California.
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Backstage writer Terri Roberts said Jim O'Heir stood out among the show's cast.
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Jim O'Heir appeared in the 1996 baseball comedy film Ed and 1998 fantasy television film Harvey.
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In 2020, Variety announced Jim O'Heir was joining the cast of the Chris Blake quarantine comedy, Distancing Socially.
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Jim O'Heir has appeared in several television shows since the 1990s and 2000s, including 3rd Rock from the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, Just Shoot Me, Star Trek: Voyager, Suite Life of Zack and Cody and ER.
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Jim O'Heir originally auditioned for the role of Ron Swanson, before being cast as Jerry Gergich, a clumsy employee at a local government parks department who is routinely mocked by his fellow co-workers who called him one of four names, Jerry, Larry, Terry, and Garry.
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In 2011, Jim O'Heir made a guest appearance on the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood as a bar owner.
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In 2017, Jim O'Heir won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for The Bold and the Beautiful.