Overview (3)

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Trivia (34)

Studied at the National Theater Institute



Graduated from Brown University in 2001 as an honors playwright with a B.A. in English literature.



Graduated from Newton South High School (1997)



His father, Ronald Krasinski, is a doctor, and his mother, Mary Claire (Doyle), is a nurse. He has two older brothers, Kevin and Paul.





First stage experience was starring in a satirical high school play written and cast by B.J. Novak , now a writer and co-star on The Office (2005).



He was once a script intern on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993).

Interned at Hill Holliday advertising agency, where he worked on Dunkin' Donuts commercials.



At 6' 3", he is the shortest among his siblings, with his brothers being 6' 6" and 6' 10", respectively.



Brother Kevin, the eldest, is a doctor, and brother Paul, the middle, is a strategic consultant.





In License to Wed (2007), the characters of Ben's parents are played by John's real life parents.

He is the godfather of his brother Paul's first son.





Announced his engagement to actress Emily Blunt on August 28, 2009. They have been together since November 2008.

He has a dog named Finn.



He is a staunch liberal Democrat.



He is the spokesman for Esurance Online Car Insurance.





Became a father for the 1st time at age 34 when his wife Emily Blunt gave birth to their daughter Hazel Krasinski on February 16, 2014.

His paternal grandparents, Leo Krasinski and Regina L. Wajozynski, were of Polish descent. His maternal grandparents, Edward Joseph Doyle and Eileen Goggin Burke, were of Irish ancestry.



On January 26th 2016 he and wife Emily Blunt announced that she is expecting their second child later this year.



His wife Emily Blunt gave birth to their second child, a second daughter, Violet, on June 20, 2016.



In an interview with Conan O'Brien, stated that he became discouraged during his screen-test for the role of Captain America/Steve Rogers, after meeting Chris Hemsworth on the same set.





Both he and his wife Emily Blunt have starred in a movie with Meryl Streep separately.

If he hadn't become an actor he would have been an English teacher.



In 2016, Krasinski won a Theater World Award for outstanding debut performance in off-Broadway play, Dry Powder.



Recipient of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in 2018 for Visual Arts.



He was named one of the Time100 Most Influential People of 2018.



Brown University conferred an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts to Krasinski in 2019.



Personal Quotes (10)

I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.





"For a while, we were all thinking about applying to a restaurant close to the studio, so that at a moment's notice we could go work over there. I remember thinking, We get a DVD of this, right? At least I can prove to my mom that it happened. Now people actually care about it" - on The Office (2005).

It was a bold interpretation, I didn't shave my head. - on his first acting role, which was Daddy Warbucks in a 5th grade production of 'Annie'.



I really prefer acting over everything else. It is what I did from the beginning. All these other avenues [writer, director, producer] have been fascinating roads to go down but, for sure, acting is the most fun.



[on maintaining his 13 Hours form] I am going to keep it going. I have always tried to be somewhat in shape, but somewhat in shape and looking "like that" is hard. To get in that kind of shape is insane. When you get in the best shape of your life at age 35, you don't want to lose it all of a sudden. You work too hard for it and I am going to try to maintain it and respect it from now on wards.



[on first seeing the production still of himself shirtless in 13 Hours] When they showed me that picture, I said, "That's not real, who is that? And why is he in the movie doing my part.?"



[on how he knew he was in shape] My trainer said, "Throw away your scales because to know you are in shape, there is no harsher judge than you yourself. And when you walk out of the shower that one day and see yourself in the mirror you will know." And he was absolutely right! I knew when I saw myself. I got out of the shower one day and thought, 'Hello stranger. Who the hell is this handsome guy and why is he trying to rob us? And why isn't he wearing clothes?'



[on the reactions to his transformation] The best compliment I have got is that people are in shock. That's a more interesting reaction to get instead of 'Oh you look great.' I loved it when my friends came up to me and said, 'What?', 'What, oh my god, what?' And there is just this shock and disbelief and I like that, I like putting people in disbelief, with my arms!



[on getting abs for the first time in his life] When abs show and you can actually count them and there's more than two? - That's a pretty big day. And when you get those lower abs that go into your jeans, you're like, I don't even know what those are, but I'm glad they're here. My body fat was 25% when I started. By the time I did the movie my body fat was 9%.



In the best horror movies, the scares are just the backdrop

