I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

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.