Born: January 26, 1966

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, Rovi

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