John Krasinski Profile

John Krasinski is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office, on which he also served as a producer and occasional director. He later directed and starred in the drama films Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars.

He co-wrote, directed, and starred in A Quiet Place, a critically and commercially successful horror-thriller film for which he received Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. A Quiet Place Part II was also directed, co-produced, and written by him.

John Krasinski Education

Krasinski made his stage debut in a sixth-grade school production of Annie as Daddy Warbucks. Following that, as a high school senior, he co-starred in a satirical play written and cast by his future The Office co-star B. J. Novak. In 1997, Krasinski and Novak graduated from Newton South High School. Krasinski spent six months teaching English as a foreign language in Costa Rica before starting college. During his visit, he saved a woman from drowning after she became entangled in a riptide on a beach in Manuel Antonio National Park.

Following this, Krasinski attended Brown University to study English, graduating as a playwright in 2001 with the honors thesis “Contents Under Pressure.” He was a member of the sketch comedy group Out of Bounds while at Brown. He also coached youth basketball at the Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island, during his college years. He then went to Waterford, Connecticut, to study at the National Theater Institute. In addition, he attended the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and the Actors Center in New York.

John Krasinski Age

Krasinski is 42 years old as of 2021. He was born John Burke Krasinski on 20 October 1979 in St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

John Krasinski Height

Krasinski stands at a height of 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m).

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John Krasinski Family

Krasinski was born as the youngest of three boys to nurse Mary Clare and internist Ronald Krasinski at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. His mother is of Irish descent, and his father is of Polish ancestry. He was raised as a Catholic in Newton, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb.

John Krasinski Wife

In November 2008, Krasinski began dating English actress Emily Blunt. They got engaged in August 2009 and married in a private official ceremony on July 10, 2010, at George Clooney’s former home in Como, Italy. They live in New York City’s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. They’ve got two daughters.

John Krasinski Net Worth

Krasinski has an estimated net worth of $80 Million.

John Krasinski Some Good News

As a response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Krasinski launched a web series titled Some Good News (SGN) on YouTube in March 2020. The series featured celebrities such as Steve Carell, Robert De Niro, the entire original Broadway cast of Hamilton, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Steven Spielberg, Jon Stewart, Malala Yousafzai, and The Office cast.

On April 17th, 2020, Krasinski hosted a Livestream virtual prom for high school students whose proms were canceled due to the pandemic; 210,000 people watched the event, which featured live performances by Billie Eilish, Finneas, the Jonas Brothers, and DJ D-Nice. As part of the series, Krasinski was ordained as a minister in the state of Massachusetts to officiate a virtual wedding. The nine-part series received 72 million views and 2.58 million subscribers.

ViacomCBS announced on May 22, 2020, that they had acquired the show for broadcast on CBS All Access, but Krasinski later confirmed that he and ViacomCBS did not proceed with development plans for the company’s streaming platform. Krasinski would instead keep Some Good News in its original format on YouTube and other secondary video platforms established during the show’s original run, such as Snapchat.

John Krasinski 13 Hours

Krasinski starred in Michael Bay’s biographical war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which was based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s 2014 book of the same name. The film follows six members of the Annex Security Team as they fight to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, after waves of Islamic militant attacks on September 11, 2012. Krasinski played Jack Silva, the team’s newest member, and a former US Navy SEAL. The film’s production began on April 27, 2015, in Malta and Morocco. On January 15, 2016, the film was released. It grossed $69 million worldwide against a $50 million production budget.

John Krasinski The Office

Krasinski’s big break came in 2004 when he was cast in the NBC sitcom The Office, a remake of the popular British TV show of the same name. He played Jim Halpert, an intelligent and mild-mannered sales representative and, in later seasons, co-manager of the paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the series, a mockumentary about life at a mid-sized paper supply company.

The characters played by Krasinski and Jenna Fischer also served as the series’ central love interests. Krasinski conducted research in Scranton and interviewed employees at actual paper companies in preparation for his role. He also shot the Scranton footage used in the opening credits. He appeared in every episode of the show and directed several of them, including “Sabre.” Krasinski earned approximately $100,000 per episode of The Office’s third season, which was four times his salary for the previous two seasons.

John Krasinski SNL

Krasinski hosted his first episode of Saturday Night Live, which was watched by 6.69 million people and received positive reviews from critics. Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live sketch comedy and variety show created and developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. Michaels is currently the showrunner of the show. George Carlin hosted the show’s debut on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC’s Saturday Night.

The show’s comedy sketches, which frequently parody current culture and politics, are performed by a large and diverse cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with musical guests providing featured performances. A typical episode starts with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” and thus officially kicking off the show.

John Krasinski A Quiet Place Part II 

Krasinski directed and co-wrote the post-apocalyptic horror thriller A Quiet Place in 2018, in which he also co-starred with his wife Emily Blunt. It was released on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures and received widespread critical acclaim, with rottentomatoes.com rating it 95 percent Fresh based on 367 reviews, with the site describing Krasinski as a “rising talent.” The film was also a box office success, grossing over $340 million worldwide. Following the critical and commercial success of A Quiet Place, the series was renewed for a second season four months before its premiere. Krasinski directed and co-wrote the sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, in which he also appeared as a supporting actor.

John Krasinski TV Shows

• 2021 – Saturday Night Live
• 2018–present – Jack Ryan
• 2016–present – Dream Corp, LLC
• 2016 – Robot Chicken
• 2015–present – Lip Sync Battle
• 2014–15 – BoJack Horseman
• 2013 – Arrested Development
• 2012 – 30 Rock
• 2012 – Head Games
• 2006 – American Dad!
• 2005–2013 – The Office
• 2005 – Without a Trace
• 2005 – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• 2004 – Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• 2003 – Ed

John Krasinski Movies

• 2000 – State and Main
• 2002 – Fighting Still Life
• 2002 – Alma Mater
• 2004 – Kinsey
• 2004 – Taxi
• 2005 – Duane Hopwood
• 2005 – Jarhead
• 2006 – Doogal
• 2006 – A New Wave
• 2006 – For Your Consideration
• 2006 – The Holiday
• 2006 – Dreamgirls
• 2007 – Smiley Face
• 2007 – Shrek the Third
• 2007 – License to Wed
• 2008 – Leatherheads
• 2009 – Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• 2009 – Monsters vs. Aliens
• 2009 – Away We Go
• 2009 – It’s Complicated
• 2011 – Something Borrowed
• 2011 – The Muppets
• 2012 – Nobody Walks
• 2012 – Big Miracle
• 2012 – Promised Land
• 2013 – Monsters University
• 2013 – The Wind Rises
• 2014 – The Prophet
• 2015 – Aloha
• 2016 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• 2016 – Manchester by the Sea
• 2016 – The Hollars
• 2016 – Past Forward
• 2017 – Born in China
• 2017 – Animal Crackers
• 2017 – Detroit
• 2018 – A Quiet Place
• 2018 – Next Gen – 7723
• 2021 – A Quiet Place Part II
• 2021 – Free Guy