---
name: "John Krasinski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-krasinski"
fi1m_id: "john-krasinski"
imdb_id: "nm1024677"
tmdb_id: 17697
wikidata_id: "Q313039"
roles: ["Actor","Producer","Director"]
born: "20 October 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 16
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-05T11:20:28.909089+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Krasinski

## Identity

John Krasinski

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-krasinski
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-krasinski
- **IMDb ID:** nm1024677
- **TMDB ID:** 17697
- **Wikidata ID:** Q313039
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krasinski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313039, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17697

Actor and producer. Born 20 October 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 20 October 1979, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** John Burke Krasinski
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 16: 10 acting, 4 directing, 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrew Form](https://film.one/person/andrew-form.md), [Michael Bay](https://film.one/person/michael-bay.md), [Bradley Fuller](https://film.one/person/brad-fuller-54844.md), [Emily Blunt](https://film.one/person/emily-blunt.md), [Millicent Simmonds](https://film.one/person/millicent-simmonds.md), [Noah Jupe](https://film.one/person/noah-jupe.md), [Steve Carell](https://film.one/person/steve-carell.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 64 (6), 2010s 81 (4), 2020s 63 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 60 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Adventure 6, Comedy 6, Family 4, Fantasy 4, Animation 3, Romance 2
- **Screen time:** 19 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,965m across 9 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krasinski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313039, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17697

## Coming up

- *A Quiet Place Part III* (2027-07-28), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*A Quiet Place*](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place.md) (82), [*A Quiet Place Part II*](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-part-ii.md) (76), [*Fountain of Youth*](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md) (48)
- **Netflix:** [*A Quiet Place: Day One*](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-day-one.md) (70), [*IF*](https://film.one/film/if.md) (56)
- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)
- **Hulu:** [*It's Complicated*](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on John Krasinski

> Krasinski's best instrument is the pause: the look that lands before the line. It made Jim Halpert and it made *A Quiet Place*, where nobody was allowed to speak. Given a talkative lead, or a film that wants us to cry, he has less to offer.

Jim Halpert, in *The Office* (2005), hears something ridiculous at the next desk and does not answer it. He lets it sit on his face, and the laugh arrives before the line does. Krasinski and Jenna Fischer were the quiet ones in that cast, and he has said he was told on that show: "Your job is not to deliver these lines funny. Your job is just to deliver these lines believably and if people think they're funny, that's up to them." That is the best account of what he does when he is good.

The series ran from 2005 to 2013 and he directed episodes of it; he has called it his film school. His film work in those years was supporting parts, *Jarhead* (2005) and *The Holiday* (2006), and his first two features as director, *Brief Interviews with Hideous Men* (2009) and *The Hollars* (2016), were found uneven and sentimental. Then came *A Quiet Place* (2018), and everything before it looked like practice.

From a story by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, it gives a family one rule, stay quiet or be hunted, and keeps the camera on them for 91 minutes. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe make the danger matter. Krasinski plays Lee Abbott, a father carrying more than he can manage, and he is convincing partly because the part hardly speaks. The script sometimes bends the family's decisions to serve the next scare, but this remains the best thing he has done on either side of the camera. He directed *A Quiet Place Part II* (2021) and supplied the story for *Day One* (2024), which Michael Sarnoski turned into a two-hander.

*IF* (2024), which he wrote, directed and voiced a part in, shows what happens when the rule is taken away. It is warmly shot, short on laughs, and never settles what its own world is for. We were bored past the hour, in a film with a purple monster in it, and then a late scene between Cailey Fleming and one of the older friends moved us more than the film had earned. It works for the reason Jim worked: Fleming watches and says almost nothing. Krasinski, as a father clowning round a hospital ward, we understood and did not laugh at.

*Fountain of Youth* (2025) is the other failure. Luke Purdue is a man who is always right and always pleased about it, and Krasinski plays him at one speed, grinning through the exposition as if it were a joke he had told before, while Natalie Portman does the objecting. His best film is the one in which nobody may speak, and his best performance is the one in which he mostly declined to. The next good thing he makes will have very little dialogue in it, and he should think hard before casting himself to say it.

## Biography

John Krasinski is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He was born on 20 October 1979 in Newton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University and first gained prominence for his role as Jim Halpert in the NBC sitcom *The Office* (2005–2013), on which he also served as a producer and occasional director.

Krasinski made his feature directorial debut with *Brief Interviews with Hideous Men* (2009). He wrote, directed and starred in the horror film *A Quiet Place* (2018) and its sequel *A Quiet Place Part II* (2021). In 2024 he wrote and directed the fantasy film *IF*, in which he also voiced the characters Dad and Marshmallow, and received story and producer credits on *A Quiet Place: Day One*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (16)

### Performed in (10) — the average rests on these

- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), Fi1m 48, as Luke Purdue — [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)
- *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022), Fi1m 60, as Reed Richards — [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness.md)
- *Free Guy* (2021), Fi1m 67, as Silhouetted Gamer (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/free-guy.md)
- *Monsters University* (2013), Fi1m 72, as Frank McCay (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)
- *The Muppets* (2011), Fi1m 80, as John Krasinski — [page](https://film.one/film/the-muppets.md)
- *It's Complicated* (2009), Fi1m 63, as Harley — [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)
- *Monsters vs Aliens* (2009), Fi1m 63, as Cuthbert (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-vs-aliens.md)
- *Shrek the Third* (2007), Fi1m 50, as Lancelot (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-the-third.md)
- *Dreamgirls* (2006), Fi1m 68, as Sam Walsh — [page](https://film.one/film/dreamgirls.md)
- *The Holiday* (2006), Fi1m 64, as Ben — [page](https://film.one/film/the-holiday.md)

### Directed (4)

- *IF* (2024), Fi1m 56, as Dad / Marshmallow (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/if.md)
- *A Quiet Place Part II* (2021), Fi1m 76, as Lee Abbott — [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-part-ii.md)
- *A Quiet Place* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Lee Abbott — [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place.md)
- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, as Jim Halpert — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *A Quiet Place: Day One* (2024), Fi1m 70, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-day-one.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), Fi1m 89, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Quiet Place Part III* (2027), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War* (2026), as Jack Ryan · Producer, Screenplay, Story
- *Fountain of Youth* (2025), as Luke Purdue — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/fountain-of-youth.md)
- *Apartment 7A* (2024), Producer
- *A Quiet Place: Day One* (2024), Producer, Story — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-day-one.md)
- *IF* (2024), as Dad / Marshmallow (voice) · Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/if.md)
- *Curses!* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *DC League of Super-Pets* (2022), as Clark Kent / Superman (voice)
- *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* (2022), as Reed Richards — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness.md)
- *Free Guy* (2021), as Silhouetted Gamer (voice) — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/free-guy.md)
- *A Quiet Place Part II* (2021), as Lee Abbott · Producer, Writer, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place-part-ii.md)
- *Next Gen* (2018), as Project 77 (voice)
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), series, as Jack Ryan · Executive Producer
- *Animal Crackers* (2018), as Owen Huntington (voice)
- *A Quiet Place* (2018), as Lee Abbott · Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-quiet-place.md)
- *Detroit* (2017), as Attorney Auerbach
- *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), Executive Producer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md)
- *Past Forward* (2016), as Man #1
- *Dream Corp LLC* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *The Hollars* (2016), as John Hollar · Director, Producer
- *Born in China* (2016), as Narrator: American version (voice)
- *13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi* (2016), as Jack Silva
- *Aloha* (2015), as John "Woody" Woodside
- *Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet* (2014), as Halim (voice)
- *BoJack Horseman* (2014), series, as Secretariat (voice) — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md)
- *Sleep Cycle* (2014), as Insomniac #3 · Screenplay
- *Monsters University* (2013), as Frank McCay (voice) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)
- *Nobody Walks* (2012), as Peter
- *The Office: Secret Santa Pack* (2012), as Jim Halpert
- *Promised Land* (2012), as Dustin Noble · Writer, Producer
- *Big Miracle* (2012), as Adam Carlson
- *The Muppets* (2011), as John Krasinski — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-muppets.md)
- *Something Borrowed* (2011), as Ethan
- *It's Complicated* (2009), as Harley — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/its-complicated.md)
- *Brief Interviews with Hideous Men* (2009), as Ryan / Subject #20 · Director, Producer, Adaptation
- *Away We Go* (2009), as Burt Farlander
- *Monsters vs Aliens* (2009), as Cuthbert (voice) — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-vs-aliens.md)
- *Leatherheads* (2008), as Carter Rutherford
- *Smiley Face* (2007), as Brevin
- *A New Wave* (2007), as Gideon
- *License to Wed* (2007), as Ben Murphy
- *Shrek the Third* (2007), as Lancelot (voice) — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/shrek-the-third.md)
- *Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience* (2007), as Camp Muckamungus
- *Dreamgirls* (2006), as Sam Walsh — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dreamgirls.md)
- *The Holiday* (2006), as Ben — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-holiday.md)
- *For Your Consideration* (2006), as Paper Badge Officer
- *Doogal* (2006), as Additional voices (voice)
- *Duane Hopwood* (2005), as Bob Flynn
- *Jarhead* (2005), as Corporal Harrigan
- *The Office* (2005), series, as Jim Halpert · Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Gilbert (voice)
- *Taxi* (2004), as Messenger
- *Kinsey* (2004), as Ben
- *Old School* (2003), as Brian
- *Without a Trace* (2002), series, as Curtis Horne
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Jace Gleesing
- *Ed* (2000), series, as Process Server
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Lyle Davis
- *State and Main* (2000), as Judge's Assistant (uncredited)
- *King of Oil*, Producer
- *Life on Mars*, Director, Producer
- *Not Fade Away*, Producer
- *Silent River*, series, Executive Producer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Actors John Krasinski and Michael Kelly visit RAF Alconbury, England on Oct. 12, 2019 as part of a United Service Organisations (USO) tour across Europe, promot](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-8d50ad887636.jpg) Actors John Krasinski and Michael Kelly visit RAF Alconbury, England on Oct. 12, 2019 as part of a United Service Organisations (USO) tour across Europe, promot — U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian Kimball, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Jack_Ryan_USO_Europe_Tour_%285874750%29.jpg/1280px-Jack_Ryan_USO_Europe_Tour_%285874750%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012 Hey honey, how about we switch sides?](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-f43298944ab2.jpg) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012 Hey honey, how about we switch sides? — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Emily_Blunt_and_John_Kraskinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_%288001823439%29.jpg/1280px-Emily_Blunt_and_John_Kraskinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_%288001823439%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-9fbad2b04351.jpg) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012 — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Emily_Blunt_and_John_Krasinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_-09.jpg/1280px-Emily_Blunt_and_John_Krasinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_-09.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in 2013 Golden Globe Awards.](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-3c2de77e3eb1.jpg) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in 2013 Golden Globe Awards. — Jenn Deering Davis from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/2013_Golden_Globe_Awards_%288379851726%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-111316154eb6.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-ccecd34acdf5.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-523152bf75c2.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB
- ![Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-e02ad87c53d0.jpg) Emily Blunt and John Krasinski at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012 — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Emily_Blunt_and_John_Krasinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_-14.jpg/1280px-Emily_Blunt_and_John_Krasinski_at_the_premiere_of_Looper%2C_Toronto_Film_Festival_2012_-14.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-e498f64f885e.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-cad3f1eb0233.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB
- ![John Krasinski](https://film.one/media/person/11325/gallery-04249c3a3c43.jpg) John Krasinski — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Time 100 2018: Time 100 (won)
- Theatre World Award 2016: Theatre World Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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