The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.

He will appear in and also serve as executive producer alongside Aaron Sorkin on an HBO miniseries about the Chateau Marmont Hotel. More recently he had major roles in the films License to Wed with Mandy Moore and Robin Williams and Leatherheads with George Clooney and Renée Zellweger. Krasinski filmed the footage of Scranton Pennsylvania for The Office including the clips shown in the opening credits.

John Burke Krasinski (/krəˈzɪnski/; born October 20 1979) is an American actor film director and writer. He is most widely known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office.