John Krasinski

Background

Born on October 20, 1979, John Burke Krasinski is the youngest of three brothers and was born in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. Mary Claire Krasinski, his mother, is a nurse, and Ronald Krasinski, his father, is an internist. His father is of Polish ethnicity, while his mother is Irish.
B.J. Novak, a classmate, wrote and cast him in a satirical high school play, which was his first theatrical experience. He was on the same Little League baseball team as Novak, who went on to become a writer and co-star on “The Office” (2005). Krasinski wanted to major in English after graduating from Newton South High School in 1997, but he deferred his first semester of college to teach English in Costa Rica. He studied playwriting at Brown University, graduating with honors in 2001, and then at the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.

He interned as a script intern on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in the summer of 2000. (1993). Krasinski made his feature film debut in 2002 and has since appeared in some tiny roles in films such as “Kinsey” (2004) and “Duane Hopwood” (2005). He first featured as “Corporal Harrigan” in director Sam Mendes’ “Jarhead” (2005), and then as “Ben” in director Nancy Meyers’ romantic comedy “The Holiday” (2006). In “Shrek the Third,” he provides the voice of “Lancelot” (2007). Krasinski co-starred in the romantic comedy “License to Wed” (2007) with Robin Williams and Mandy Moore, as well as in the football screwball comedy “Leatherheads” (2008)with George Clooney and Renée Zellweger. Krasinski made his directorial debut in 2009 with the comedy-drama film “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” a big-screen version of David Foster Wallace’s eponymous collection of short tales. Following that, he directed “The Hollars” (2016), a family drama, and “A Quiet Place” (2018), a well-received horror picture with one of the genre’s biggest opening weekends.

Krasinski started a romantic relationship with English actress Emily Blunt in November 2008. They were married on July 10, 2010, in a private official ceremony at George Clooney’s former home in Como, Italy, after getting engaged in August 2009. They live in New York City’s Brooklyn Heights area. Hazel Krasinski and Violet Krasinski are their two daughters.