John Krasinski
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.
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Acting History
2025
Fountain of Youth as Luke Purdue
2024IF as Dad / Marshmallow (voice)
2024Cities of the Future as Narrator (voice)
2022DC League of Super-Pets as Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Reed Richards
2021Free Guy as Silhouetted Gamer (voice)
2021A Quiet Place Part II as Lee Abbott
2020David Blaine: The Magic Way as Self
2020Some Good News as Self - Host
2018Next Gen as Project 77 (voice)
2018Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Jack Ryan
2018A Quiet Place as Lee Abbott
2017Detroit as Attorney Auerbach
2017Animal Crackers as Owen Huntington (voice)
2016Past Forward as Man #1
2016The Hollars as John Hollar
2016Born in China as Narrator: American version (voice)
201613 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi as Jack Silva
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015Aloha as John "Woody" Woodside
2015Lip Sync Battle as Self
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014The Prophet as Halim (voice)
2014BoJack Horseman as Secretariat (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Sleep Cycle as Insomniac #3
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013Mistaken for Strangers as Self (uncredited)
2013Monsters University as Frank McCay (voice)
2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Self - Letter Reader
2013The Office Retrospective as Self
2012Nobody Walks as Peter
2012The Office: Secret Santa Pack as Jim Halpert
2012Promised Land as Dustin Noble
2012Big Miracle as Adam Carlson
2011The Muppets as John Krasinski
2011Something Borrowed as Ethan
2010Conan as Self
2009It's Complicated as Harley
2009Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Ryan / Subject #20
2009Away We Go as Burt Farlander
2009Monsters vs Aliens as Cuthbert (voice)
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
2008Leatherheads as Carter Rutherford
2007Smiley Face as Brevin
2007A New Wave as Gideon
2007License to Wed as Ben Murphy
2007Shrek the Third as Lancelot (voice)
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience as Camp Muckamungus
2006Dreamgirls as Sam Walsh
2006The Holiday as Ben
2006For Your Consideration as Paper Badge Officer
2006Doogal as Additional voices (voice)
2005Duane Hopwood as Bob Flynn
2005Jarhead as Corporal Harrigan
2005The Office as Jim Halpert
2005American Dad! as Gilbert (voice)
2004Taxi as Messenger
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self
2004Kinsey as Ben
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003Old School as Brian
2002Without a Trace as Curtis Horne
2002Live from E! as Self
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jace Gleesing
2000Ed as Process Server
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Lyle Davis
2000State and Main as Judge's Assistant (uncredited)
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953The Oscars as Self
1952Today as Self
1949The Emmy Awards as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
—Silent River
—Untitled Jack Ryan Film as Jack Ryan