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Wilson currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fiction writer Holiday Reinhorn, and their son Walter. He has two “loving” pit bulls, Oona and Harper Lee. His birthday is January 20 and he enjoys tennis, chess -- and loud rock-’n- roll music. Rainn Wilson portrays Dwight Schrute, an eccentric paper salesman whose ego knows no bounds in the NBC comedy series “The Office.”

Wilson recently co-starred in the feature film “Sahara,” starring opposite Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Penelope Cruz. He also starred as a hippie producer in the acclaimed film, “Baadasssss” and has been seen in other features such as Cameron Crowe's “Almost Famous,” Steven Soderbergh’s “Full Frontal,” “America's Sweethearts,” “House of 1,000 Corpses” and “Galaxy Quest.”

In addition, Wilson is well-known for his recurring role on the television series “Six Feet Under” as Arthur Martin, the odd mortician intern. He has also guest-starred on “CSI,” NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Monk,” and several other series.

Wilson’s theater career includes performances in two Broadway plays, “London Assurance” and “The Tempest.” He has also performed off-Broadway in “The New Bozena,” “Plunge,” “Venus,” “Titus Andronicus” and “Twelfth Night,” and regionally at the Guthrie Theatre, the Arena Stage and Dallas Theatre Center. He attended the graduate acting program at New York University.
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Best known for playing über-nerd Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy The Office, actor Rainn Wilson parlayed a Broadway career into screen work that began with a role on the daytime soap One Life to Live. Bit parts in features such as Galaxy Quest and Almost Famous soon followed before Wilson landed the part of apprentice mortician Arthur on HBO's Six Feet Under during the show's third season. After Six Feet Under bowed in 2005, Wilson was cast in his most prominent role to date, the aforementioned Dwight Schrute, the resident oddball on the critically acclaimed U.S. version of The Office. Wilson so embraced the part that he even personally penned a weblog by the character on the NBC website. In 2006, Wilson was the fourth lead in Ivan Reitman's fantasy romantic comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and a year later he scored his first starring feature role in the children's sci-fi adventure The Last Mimzy. Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide



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