52 Facts About John Krasinski

John Burke Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker.

John Krasinski is known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office, where he was a producer and occasional director.

John Krasinski directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, for which Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

John Krasinski has since written and directed the sequel A Quiet Place Part II.

John Krasinski directed and starred in the comedy-drama films Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars.

John Krasinski has performed voice-over work in animated and documentary films, including in Monsters University.

John Krasinski established a production company, Sunday Night Productions, in 2013.

John Krasinski is married to English actress Emily Blunt, with whom he has two daughters.

John Burke Krasinski was born on October 20,1979, in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts, the youngest of three boys of nurse Mary Clare and internist Ronald Krasinski.

John Krasinski's mother is of Irish ancestry, and his father is of Polish descent.

John Krasinski made his stage debut as Daddy Warbucks in a sixth-grade school production of the musical Annie.

John Krasinski said that what he learned from his mother, who was a lifeguard, helped him save the woman.

John Krasinski then attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.

In 2000, John Krasinski interned as a scriptwriter on the show Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

John Krasinski appeared in commercials, guest-starred on television shows, and did readings of off-Broadway plays while working as a waiter.

John Krasinski starred in the play What the Eunuch Saw, written and directed by his former college classmates Emily O'Dell and Isaac Robert Hurwitz.

John Krasinski's breakthrough came in 2004 when he was cast in the NBC sitcom The Office, a remake of the successful British TV series.

John Krasinski shot the footage of Scranton used in the opening credits.

John Krasinski appeared in every episode of the series and directed several, including "Sabre".

In 2006, John Krasinski co-starred in Jason Carvey's independently produced, direct-to-DVD heist comedy A New Wave with Andrew Keegan and Lacey Chabert.

John Krasinski co-starred in films including Kinsey, Duane Hopwood, Jarhead, The Holiday, Shrek the Third, For Your Consideration and Dreamgirls.

In 2008, John Krasinski appeared with Renee Zellweger and George Clooney in the latter's directorial venture Leatherheads, a period comedy about the early years of professional American football.

John Krasinski portrayed Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford, Princeton University's college football star and a decorated hero of the First World War.

In 2009, John Krasinski made his directorial debut in the comedy-drama film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

John Krasinski wrote the screenplay for the film based on David Foster Wallace's collection of short stories, played a minor role in it and served as producer.

In 2011, John Krasinski co-starred with Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson and Colin Egglesfield in the romantic comedy Something Borrowed, based on Emily Giffin's novel of the same name.

John Krasinski starred opposite Drew Barrymore in the biopic film Big Miracle, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

John Krasinski came up with the film's premise and developed the idea with Eggers.

John Krasinski narrated the documentary television series Head Games on the Discovery Channel.

In 2013, John Krasinski founded the production company Sunday Night production with Allyson Seeger.

John Krasinski has an overall deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television.

In 2014, John Krasinski collaborated with his Promised Land co-star and co-writer Matt Damon on the critically acclaimed 2016 drama Manchester by the Sea which starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams.

In 2016, John Krasinski starred in Michael Bay's biographical war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi based on Mitchell Zuckoff's 2014 book 13 Hours.

John Krasinski went through extensive physical training for the role and put on 25 pounds of muscle to play a former US Navy SEAL.

John Krasinski starred in the film alongside an ensemble cast of Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick and Margo Martindale.

John Krasinski starred in the world premiere of the Off-Broadway play Dry Powder with Hank Azaria, Claire Danes, and Sanjit De Silva which was directed by Thomas Kail.

John Krasinski's performance was widely praised by critics and, later that year, he received the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance.

John Krasinski co-starred in the black and white short film Past Forward for Italian luxury fashion house Prada which was directed by David O Russell and premiered in September 2016 at Milan Fashion Week.

In 2018, John Krasinski directed and co-wrote the film A Quiet Place, a post-apocalyptic horror thriller, in which he co-starred with his wife Emily Blunt.

John Krasinski produces and stars as the title character in the television series Jack Ryan, making him the fifth actor to portray the character after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine from the film series.

In March 2020, John Krasinski started a web series titled Some Good News on YouTube as a response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

John Krasinski became ordained as a minister in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to officiate a virtual wedding as part of the series.

On May 22,2020, ViacomCBS announced they had acquired the show to air on CBS All Access, but John Krasinski later confirmed that he and ViacomCBS did not move forward with development plans for the company's streaming platform.

On January 20,2021, John Krasinski spoke at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's inauguration celebration via a remote address from his home office.

John Krasinski hosted his first episode of Saturday Night Live later that month, which was watched by 6.69 million viewers and received positively by critics.

John Krasinski directed and wrote the sequel A Quiet Place Part II, in which he had a supporting role.

John Krasinski has narrated commercials for Apple TV, Verizon Wireless, Esurance, BlackBerry Storm, My Coke Rewards, and Carnival Cruise Lines, and has appeared in print advertisements for Gap.

John Krasinski has narrated the children's books Curious George Goes to the Hospital, which was included in the special Curious George collection Curious George: 75th Anniversary Edition, which he narrated.

In 2024, John Krasinski received mild criticism for appearing in a Canadian televised commercial for Rogers, while the corporation was locking out Canadian union actors amid a labour dispute.

John Krasinski began dating English actress Emily Blunt in November 2008.

In May 2020, John Krasinski partnered with Sevenly, 5th Element, and the Starbucks Foundation to launch Some Good Merch, an online merchandise store designed to raise financial support for multiple social causes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

John Krasinski's daughters helped to design a t-shirt with Sevenly and PepsiCo to help raise money for restaurant employees struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic; through SGN, PepsiCo agreed to donate an additional to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.