
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.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
2026 · as Jack Ryan

A Quiet Place
2018 · as Lee Abbott

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · as Reed Richards

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016 · as Jack Silva

A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · as Lee Abbott

Shrek the Third
2007 · as Lancelot (voice)

Free Guy
2021 · as Silhouetted Gamer (voice)

Monsters vs Aliens
2009 · as Cuthbert (voice)

Monsters University
2013 · as Frank McCay (voice)

The Holiday
2006 · as Ben

IF
2024 · as Dad / Marshmallow (voice)

Dreamgirls
2006 · as Sam Walsh

DC League of Super-Pets
2022 · as Clark Kent / Superman (voice)

Fountain of Youth
2025 · as Luke Purdue

The Muppets
2011 · as John Krasinski

Taxi
2004 · as Messenger

Jarhead
2005 · as Corporal Harrigan

Aloha
2015 · as John "Woody" Woodside