Best Known As: Film Actor,  Television Actor

Gist:  John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, film director and writer. He has acted in several films, including Shrek the Third, Leatherheads and Away We Go, but is most widely known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office.

Life Facts:  Krasinski was born in the Brighton area of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a Polish-American father, internist Dr. Ronald Krasinski, and an Irish American mother, Mary Clare (née Doyle). He has two older brothers, Kevin and Paul, and was raised Roman Catholic in the suburb of Newton, Massachusetts.

He attended the same high school as B. J. Novak, who would later become Krasinski's co-star on The Office, as well as a writer and co-producer of the series. Krasinski also performed in a play written by Novak. Krasinski graduated from Newton South High School in 1997.

Before entering college, Krasinski took a semester off to teach English in Costa Rica. From there, he went to Brown University, studying theater arts with Lowry Marshall and John Emigh and graduating in 2001 as a playwright with an honors thesis titled "Contents Under Pressure". During his time at Brown, he helped coach youth basketball at The Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island. He then attended the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut.

Krasinski was featured in People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive issue in 2006.

He is currently dating actress Emily Blunt.