Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilsonis an American actor. He is best known for his Emmy Award-nominated role as egomaniac Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliensand starred in the police procedural Backstrom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 January 1966
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
character theatre transformation
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
dwight painting clown
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
believe way realizing
I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
scotland england canada
Scotland is the Canada of England!
school high-school dork
I was a total dork in high school.
father ask-me asks
Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.
heart thinking hands
I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.
character thinking people
I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.
eye actors scene
A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.
real keys listening
I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.
communication thinking self
I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.
prayer play knees
I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.
real thinking play
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.
character misfits rough
I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.