Actor of The Week: John Krasinski

John Burke Krasinski (/krəˈzɪnski/; lahir 20 Oktober 1979) adalah aktor dan pembuat film Amerika. Dia dikenal karena perannya sebagai Jim Halpert di sitkom NBC The Office. Dia juga menjabat sebagai produser dan sutradara sesekali dari serial tersebut selama sembilan musim berjalan.

Dididik dalam seni teater di Brown University dan National Theatre Institute, Krasinski adalah penerima sejumlah penghargaan, termasuk empat nominasi Primetime Emmy Award dan dua Screen Actors Guild Awards. Time menobatkannya sebagai salah satu dari 100 orang paling berpengaruh di dunia pada tahun 2018.

Kredit filmnya termasuk License to Wed (2007), Leatherheads (2008), Away We Go (2009), It's Complicated (2009), Something Borrowed (2011), Big Miracle (2012), Promised Land (2012), Aloha (2015 ), The Hollars (2016), dan 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). Krasinski menyutradarai dan membintangi drama Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) dan film drama komedi The Hollars (2016). Pada tahun 2018, Krasinski ikut menulis, menyutradarai, dan membintangi film horor A Quiet Place yang diakui secara kritis. Tahun itu, dia mulai memerankan karakter utama dalam serial thriller Amazon Jack Ryan, yang juga dia produksi. Dia dinominasikan untuk Penampilan Luar Biasa oleh Aktor Pria dalam Serial Drama di Screen Actors Guild Awards untuk perannya.

Selain berakting dalam serial televisi dan film, Krasinski telah melakukan pekerjaan pengisi suara dalam film animasi dan dokumenter seperti Monsters University dan peran kecil dalam Shrek the Third. Ia mendirikan perusahaan produksi, Sunday Night Productions, pada 2013. Krasinski menikah dengan aktris Inggris Emily Blunt, yang memiliki dua anak perempuan.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	State and Main	Judge's Assistant	Uncredited
2002	Fighting Still Life	Tyler	Short film
	Alma Mater	Flea Club Candidate 1
2004	Kinsey	Ben
	Taxi	Messenger No. 3
2005	Duane Hopwood	Bob Flynn
	Jarhead	Corporal Harrigan
2006	Doogal	Additional Voices
	A New Wave	Gideon
	For Your Consideration	Paper Badge Officer
	The Holiday	Ben
	Dreamgirls	Sam Walsh
2007	Smiley Face	Brevin
	Shrek the Third	Sir Lancelot (voice)
	License to Wed	Ben Murphy
2008	Leatherheads	Carter Rutherford
2009	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Ryan / Subject No. 20	Also director, writer, and producer
	Monsters vs. Aliens	Cuthbert (voice)
	Away We Go	Burt Farlander
	It's Complicated	Harley
2011	Something Borrowed	Ethan
	The Muppets	Himself
2012	Nobody Walks	Peter
	Big Miracle	Adam Carlson
	Promised Land	Dustin Noble	Also writer and producer
2013	Monsters University	"Frightening" Frank McCay (voice)
	The Wind Rises	Honjo (voice)	English dub
2014	The Prophet	Halim (voice)
2015	Aloha	John "Woody" Woodside
2016	13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	Jack Silva
	The Hollars	John Hollar	Also director and producer
	Past Forward	Man No. 1	Short film
2017	Born in China	Narrator (voice)	Documentary
	Animal Crackers	Owen Huntington (voice)
	Detroit	Norman Lippitt
2018	A Quiet Place	Lee Abbott	Also director, writer and executive producer
	Next Gen	7723 (voice)
2020	A Quiet Place Part II	Lee Abbott	Also director, writer and producer
2021	Free Guy	Silhouetted Gamer (voice)	Cameo
2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
	DC League of Super-Pets	Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
2024	IF	TBA	Also director, writer and producer; filming

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Ed	Process server	Episode: "Good Advice"
2004	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Jace Gleesing	Episode: "Mad Hops"
2005–2013	The Office	Jim Halpert	201 episodes
2005	Without a Trace	Curtis Horne	Episode: "The Bogie Man"
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Lyle Davis	Episode: "Who Shot Sherlock"
2006	American Dad!	Gilbert (voice)	Episode: "Irregarding Steve"
2012	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell"
	Head Games	Narrator	3 episodes
2013	Arrested Development	Spyder Foode	Episode: "The B. Team"
2014–2015	BoJack Horseman	Secretariat (voice)	Episodes "Later" and "The Shot"
2015	Lip Sync Battle	Himself	Episode: "John Krasinski vs. Anna Kendrick"
2016	Robot Chicken	Commercial Director / Mike Brady / Doc Brown (voices)	Episode: "Secret of the Flushed Footlong"
2018–present	Jack Ryan	Jack Ryan	Main role (25 episodes)
2021	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "John Krasinski/Machine Gun Kelly"