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Season 8, Episode 14
Dwight leads a team on a mission to create a chain of Sabre stores in Florida. Comedy, starring Rainn Wilson
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Did You Know..
Rainn Wilson
(Actor)
.. Dwight Schrute
Born:
January 20, 1966
in
Seattle, Washington, United States
Best Known For:
Playing Dwight Schrute in the American version of The Office.
Early-life:
Rainn Dietrich Wilson was born on January 20, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, United States to yoga teacher and actress Shay Cooper and novelist, artist and business consultant Robert G Wilson. He lived in Nicaragua between ages three and five before his parents divorced and returned to Seattle. While he was in high school, he moved to Wilmette, Illinois with his family. Rainn graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Bachelor's degree in drama in 1986. He then joined New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, where he achieved an MFA in acting and was a member of The Acting Company. Rainn worked in theatre for much of his early career and, while acting in New York, drove a moving van to make ends meet.
Career:
Wilson's first on screen appearance was in an episode of the soap opera, One Life to Live, in 1997. His feature film debut was in Galaxy Quest (1999), which was followed by a minor supporting role in Almost Famous (2000). Following this, he appeared in a number of TV shows, including Six Feet Under, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Charmed and Entourage, as well as such films as America's Sweethearts (2001) and Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses (2003). In 2005, he was cast as Dwight Schrute in the American version of The Office, a role he played until the series ended in 2013. He also directed three episodes of the series. Wilson then went on to land leading roles in such films as The Rocker (2008) and Super (2010) and was cast in Juno (2007), Monsters vs Aliens (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and others. More recently, he voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017).
Quote:
"Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters."
Trivia:
He was nominated for the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2007, 2008 and 2009 for his portrayal of Dwight Schrute in The Office.
