John Krasinski
☼ Born on20 janeiro 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Biography:
American actor John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV sitcom, O Escritório (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, he is the youngest of three brothers. His mother, Mary Claire (Doyle), is a nurse, and his father, Ronald Krasinski, is an internist. His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry.
His first stage experience was starring in a satirical high school play, written and cast by his classmate B.J. Novak. Also good at sports, he played on the same Little League baseball team as Novak, later a writer and co-star on O Escritório (2005). After gr
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aduating from Newton South High School in 1997, Krasinski planned to be an English major and deferred his first semester of college to teach English in Costa Rica. He attended Brown University, graduating in English in 2001 with honors, then studied at the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.
During the summer of 2000, he worked as a script intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993). Krasinski made his big screen debut in 2002, then played several small roles like "Ben" in Relatório Kinsey (2004), and "Bob Flynn" in A Vida Não é Uma Roleta (2005). He appeared as "Corporal Harrigan" in Máquina Zero (2005), by director Sam Mendes, then played a supporting role as "Ben" in O Amor não Tira Férias (2006), a romantic comedy by director Nancy Meyers. He is billed as the voice of "Lancelot" in Shrek, o Terceiro (2007). Krasinski co-starred opposite Robin Williams and Mandy Moore in the romantic comedy Licença para Casar (2007), as well as with George Clooney and Renée Zellweger in the football screwball comedy, Jogo Sujo (2008). He is also director and writer of Breves Diálogos com Homens Horríveis (2009), a big screen adaptation of the eponymous collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace. He followed that film up with The Hollars (2016), a family drama, and Um Lugar Silencioso (2018), a well-received horror film that had one of the biggest opening weekends for the genre.
Krasinski is married to English actress Emily Blunt, with whom he has two children. He claims Los Angeles as his home but travels to New York City and his hometown of Newton, MA, frequently.
In the role of writer
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