Biography
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