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.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2016
The Office
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2019
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2005
American Dad!
2006
Conan
2011
Saturday Night Live
2021
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2004
The Graham Norton Show
2018
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2010
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2005

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
83
Directing
10
Writing
11
Producing
20
Crew
2
2026
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
as Jack Ryan
2025
Fountain of Youth
as Luke Purdue
2024
IF
as Dad / Marshmallow (voice)
2024
Cities of the Future
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
The Oscars
as Self
2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Reed Richards
2022
DC League of Super-Pets
as Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
2021
A Quiet Place Part II
as Lee Abbott
2021
Free Guy
as Silhouetted Gamer (voice)
2021
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
2020
David Blaine: The Magic Way
as Self
2020
Some Good News
as Self - Host
2019
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2019
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2018
Animal Crackers
as Owen Huntington (voice)
2018
A Quiet Place
as Lee Abbott
2018
Next Gen
as Project 77 (voice)
2018
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
as Jack Ryan
2018
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2017
Detroit
as Attorney Auerbach
2016
The Hollars
as John Hollar
2016
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
as Jack Silva
2016
Born in China
as Narrator: American version (voice)
2016
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Aloha
as John "Woody" Woodside
2015
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2014
Sleep Cycle
as Insomniac #3
2014
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
as Halim (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman
as Secretariat (voice)
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2013
Monsters University
as Frank McCay (voice)
2013
Mistaken for Strangers
as Self (uncredited)
2013
The Office Retrospective
as Self
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Letter Reader
2012
Nobody Walks
as Peter
2012
Big Miracle
as Adam Carlson
2012
Promised Land
as Dustin Noble
2012
The Office: Secret Santa Pack
as Jim Halpert
2012
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2011
Something Borrowed
as Ethan
2011
The Muppets
as John Krasinski
2011
Conan
as Self
2010
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2009
It's Complicated
as Harley
2009
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
as Ryan / Subject #20
2009
Monsters vs Aliens
as Cuthbert (voice)
2009
Away We Go
as Burt Farlander
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2008
Leatherheads
as Carter Rutherford
2008
The Emmy Awards
as Self
2007
License to Wed
as Ben Murphy
2007
Smiley Face
as Brevin
2007
Shrek the Third
as Lancelot (voice)
2007
A New Wave
as Gideon
2007
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
as Camp Muckamungus
2007
Live from E!
as Self
2007
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self
2006
The Holiday
as Ben
2006
Doogal
as Additional voices (voice)
2006
Dreamgirls
as Sam Walsh
2006
For Your Consideration
as Paper Badge Officer
2006
"Jarhead" Diaries
as Self
2006
American Dad!
as Gilbert (voice)
2006
Today
as Self
2006
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2006
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
2005
Jarhead
as Corporal Harrigan
2005
Duane Hopwood
as Bob Flynn
2005
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Lyle Davis
2005
The Office
as Jim Halpert
2005
Without a Trace
as Curtis Horne
2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2004
Kinsey
as Ben
2004
Taxi
as Messenger
2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jace Gleesing
2003
Old School
as Brian
2003
Ed
as Process Server
2000
State and Main
as Judge's Assistant (uncredited)
Silent River