Rainn Dietrich Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson was born in Seattle, Washington on January 20th 1966 and is currently best known for his role as Dwight Schrute in the hit American TV show ‘The Office’.
He has an extensive background in Theatre and attended Tufts University, The University of Washington, and has even taught several acting classes. He was a member of ‘The Acting Company’ and also holds an MFA from New York University.
Aside from his success in the role of Dwight on ‘The Office’ Rainn has starred in several big budget movies and television shows. One of the first TV shows he starred in was HBO’s brilliant series ‘Six Feet Under’ in which he played the friend of one of the main character’s brother. From there he went on to star in such shows as Numb3ers and Entourage in 2005 playing an Entertainment Journalist. He has had a guest appearance in the TV series ‘Monk’ taking on the role of a psychotic baseball fan alongside the main man himself Tony Shalhoub.
Rainn has starred in several big films including: ‘Almost Famous’, ‘America’s Sweethearts’, ‘Galaxy Quest’, The incredibly gory ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ and most recently the hit comedy ‘My Super Ex Girlfriend’ alongside the beautiful and talented Uma Thurman and funnyman Luke Wilson. He has also hosted ‘Saturday night live’ on February 24th 2007.
Rainn Wilson currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Holiday Reinhorn, a fiction writer and their son Walter Mckenzie Wilson, who was born in 2004. Rainn has recently stated that he and his family are of Bahá’í Faith, most likely due to his Mother and Fathers commited involvement to the religion as he was growing up.
He writes a popular blog on the NBC website in character as Dwight Schrute from ‘The Office‘ it is titled Schrute-Space and is definately worth a look if you are a fan of the show or of Rainn.
Keep your eye on Rainn as this talented actor has plety of new projects lined up for the future and is set to keep on soaring in the world of showbiz.
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