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.

Filmography

• 2027A Quiet Place Part III — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2026Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War — Jack Ryan, Producer, Screenplay, Story
• 2025Fountain of Youth — Luke Purdue
• 2024A Quiet Place: Day One — Producer, Story
• 2024Apartment 7A — Producer
• 2024IF — Dad / Marshmallow (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
• Curses! — Executive Producer
• 2022DC League of Super-Pets — Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
• 2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Reed Richards
• 2021A Quiet Place Part II — Lee Abbott, Producer, Writer, Director
• 2021Free Guy — Silhouetted Gamer (voice)
• Some Good News — Self - Host, Director, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2018A Quiet Place — Lee Abbott, Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
• 2018Animal Crackers — Owen Huntington (voice)
• 2018Next Gen — Project 77 (voice)
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — Jack Ryan, Executive Producer
• 2017Detroit — Attorney Auerbach
• 201613 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi — Jack Silva
• 2016Born in China — Narrator: American version (voice)
• Dream Corp LLC — Executive Producer
• 2016Manchester by the Sea — Executive Producer
• 2016The Hollars — John Hollar, Director, Producer
• 2015Aloha — John "Woody" Woodside
• Lip Sync Battle — Self, Executive Producer, Creator
• BoJack Horseman — Secretariat (voice)
• 2014Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet — Halim (voice)
• 2014Sleep Cycle — Insomniac #3, Screenplay
• 2013Monsters University — Frank McCay (voice)
• 2012Big Miracle — Adam Carlson
• 2012Nobody Walks — Peter
• 2012Promised Land — Dustin Noble, Writer, Producer
• 2012The Office: Secret Santa Pack — Jim Halpert
• 2011Something Borrowed — Ethan
• 2011The Muppets — John Krasinski
• 2009Away We Go — Burt Farlander
• 2009Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — Ryan / Subject #20, Director, Producer, Adaptation
• 2009It's Complicated — Harley
• 2009Monsters vs Aliens — Cuthbert (voice)
• 2008Leatherheads — Carter Rutherford
• 2007A New Wave — Gideon
• 2007License to Wed — Ben Murphy
• 2007Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience — Camp Muckamungus
• 2007Shrek the Third — Lancelot (voice)
• 2007Smiley Face — Brevin
• 2006Doogal — Additional voices (voice)
• 2006Dreamgirls — Sam Walsh
• 2006For Your Consideration — Paper Badge Officer
• 2006The Holiday — Ben
• American Dad! — Gilbert (voice)
• 2005Duane Hopwood — Bob Flynn
• 2005Jarhead — Corporal Harrigan
• The Office — Jim Halpert, Director
• 2004Kinsey — Ben
• 2004Taxi — Messenger
• 2003Old School — Brian
• Without a Trace — Curtis Horne
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Jace Gleesing
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Lyle Davis
• Ed — Process Server
• 2000State and Main — Judge's Assistant (uncredited)
• King of Oil — Producer
• Life on Mars — Director, Producer
• Not Fade Away — Producer
• Silent River — Executive Producer, Director

Appearances as themselves (27)

• 2024Cities of the Future — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2020David Blaine: The Magic Way — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy — Self - Letter Reader
• 2013Mistaken for Strangers — Self (uncredited)
• 2013The Office Retrospective — Self
• Conan — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006"Jarhead" Diaries — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Live from E! — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter