John Krasinski

 The tall, handsome American film and television actor John Krasinski is known for his character as the sardonic, nice man Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV show, The Office (2005) and for which he was awarded a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance in an ensemble comedy series.Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, he is the youngest of three brothers. Mary Claire Doyle, his mother, works as a nurse , and Ronald Krasinski is an internist. His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry.His first stage appearance was starring in a satirical high-school play, written and cast by his classmate B.J. Novak. Also a good athlete He played on the same Little League baseball team as Novak and later became as a writer and co-star in The Office (2005). After having graduated from Newton South High School in 1997, Krasinski planned to be an English major, and he deferred his first college semester to teach English in Costa Rica. He attended Brown University, graduating in 2001 as a playwright, with distinction and then attended the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.