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! RAINN WILSON LOVERS !
"A real man makes his own luck. Billy Zane, Titanic"
Some Dwight Quotes to Brighten your day. . .
"Two paintball lessons with someone as experienced as I am is worth easily like 2 grand"
"Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe, Ryan started the fire!!!"
"Hey Toby. You said that we could come to you if we had any questions…where’s the clitoris? On the website it said “at the crest of the labia.” What does that mean?"
"The purse-girl hits everything on my checklist. Creamy skin. Straight teeth. Curly hair. Amazing breasts. Not for me, for my children. The Schrutes produce very thirsty babies"
ok this one is Pam but i love it.
"It’s performance review day, company-wide. Last year my performance review began with Michael asking me what my hopes and dreams were and it ended with him telling me he could bench press 190 pounds. So I really don’t know what to expect."
Rainn Wilson lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fiction writer Holiday Reinhorn (Big Cats), and his son, Walter Mckenzie Wilson who was born in 2004. He grew up in Seattle, Washington but graduated High School from New Trier H.S. in Winnetka, Illinois. After attending both Tufts U. and the University of Washington, Rainn studied acting at NYU's graduate acting program and spent years doing theater both On and Off-Broadway, on tours (the Acting Company) and in the regions (The Guthrie, Arena Stage).
Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) (filming) .... Vaughn
Dark Fiction Show (2005) (filming) .... Guardian Angel
Dominion (2005) (post-production) .... Angel Gabriel
Blue in Green (2005) .... Doug
Sahara (2005) .... Rudi Gunn
"The Office" (2005) TV Series .... Dwight Schrute
The Life Coach (2005) .... Dr. Watson Newmark
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (2003) .... Bill Harris
... aka Baadasssss! (USA: new title)
... aka Badass (USA)
... aka Gettin' the Man's Foot Outta Your Baadasssss! (USA: new title)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003) .... Bill Hudley
Slice o' Life (2003) (TV)
Self Storage (2002) .... Lee
Full Frontal (2002) .... First Fired Employee
Wheelmen (2002) .... Barney
America's Sweethearts (2001) .... Dave O'Hanlon
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) (TV) .... Dennis Van De Meer
... aka Billie contre Bobby: La bataille des sexes (Canada: French title)
Almost Famous (2000) .... David Felton
... aka Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut (USA: director's cut (DVD title))
Galaxy Quest (1999) .... Senior Thermian Requisition Officer Lahnk
The Expendables (1999) (TV) .... Newman
"One Life to Live" (1968) TV Series .... Casey Keegan (1997)
Article From The Actors Issue by Ray Richmond :
At age 37, Rainn Wilson has finally gotten in touch with his inner nerd, parlaying geekdom into a rising acting career. Wilson plays the paunchy, bespectacled office-dweeb Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy "The Office," but he's also been jetting to New York after landing a plum supporting role in the upcoming Ivan Reitman comedy "Super Ex-Girlfriend," starring Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson (he portrays Wilson's best pal). It makes for a tough juggling act while working on a series that shoots in Los Angeles.
"This is a problem I'm not accustomed to having," Wilson admits. "Three years ago, do you know how I was paying my rent? I was using those little checks the credit card companies send you that go right on the card at inflated interest. I think I had to do that for three months straight."
It wasn't that Wilson has had trouble finding acting work, exactly. He had appearances, for instance, in 1999's "Galaxy Quest," 2000's "Almost Famous" and 2001's "America's Sweethearts," not to mention the 2003 Rob Zombie flick "House of 1000 Corpses." But it's tough to make ends meet when your character is described as "Fired First Employee," as it was in 2002's "Full Frontal."
The Seattle-born Wilson had worked steadily in theater in New York, doing off-Broadway plays and regional tours before moving to Los Angeles in 1999 with his fiction-writer wife of 10 years, Holiday (yes, Holiday and Rainn) Reinhorn. They struggled to stay afloat financially, with Wilson landing the occasional movie role or guest spot on series like WB's "Charmed," CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and USA Network's "Monk."
Then came Wilson's proverbial big break: landing the part of Arthur Martin, funeral-home employee and unlikely suitor to widow Ruth Fisher (Frances Conroy) on HBO's "Six Feet Under" in 2005.
"Everyone described Arthur as 'creepy,' which is the last thing I ever meant him to be," Wilson recalls. "I thought of him as the most pure-hearted, open innocent. But I guess people think anyone that pure and innocent must be a psycho killer. That really was my breakthrough, however. I really owe (executive producers) Alan Ball and Alan Poul."
That role led Wilson to Dwight and the American edition of "The Office," which he says has made him an icon of sorts with the show's demographic of "young males and rich people -- basically college stoners and people in Oyster Bay."
As Wilson says proudly, he's been able to parlay his "weird, fat, character face" into his "own little niche playing weirdoes and freaks." Not bad for a married father of a baby son living in suburban Van Nuys, Calif.
"I feel like people respect my work a lot more now," he says. "And I owe a lot of what's happening now to ('Office' star) Steve Carell, who is the most awesome collaborator ever. He's a sweet, normal, modest guy who genuinely wants everyone to be funny. You don't find that every day in a big star."
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