Rainn WilsonFilmography

Born:: January 26, 1966 in Seattle, WA
Occupation:: Actor
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...Read More

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Michael Bay returns to helm the sequel to the highly successful big-screen adaptation of the Transformers toy line for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. Much of the original cast returns for the second installment, including Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro Read More

6/24/09
Monsters vs. Aliens

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert

Synopsis: When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is Read More

3/27/09
The Rocker

Actors: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone

Synopsis: The Office star Rainn Wilson portrays a drummer named "Fish," who gets a second shot at fame 20 years after getting kicked out of his band on the very night they signed the record contract that made them stars. Fish has spent the past two decades languishing at soul-crushing day jobs while his old Read More

8/20/08
Kanan Rhodes: Unkillable Servant of Justice

Actors: Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: A man who serves subpoenas with the suaveness and intensity of James Bond sets out to ensure that the folks who are set to appear in court know the exact date and time of their trial in this comedy starring The Office's Rainn Wilson. Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk directs a script penned in collaboration Read More

2008
Bonzai Shadowhands

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: Thank You for Smoking director Jason Reitman teams with The Office star Rainn Wilson for this dark comedy concerning a depressed former master ninja whose once great life has gradually deteriorated into disheartening mediocrity. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
The Last Mimzy

Actors: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye's directorial debut, the family-friendly science-fiction tale The Last Mimzy is an adaptation of a short story by Lewis Padgett. The story concerns a young brother and sister, Noah and Emma Wilder (Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn), who discover a strange Read More

3/23/07
Saturday Night Live: Rainn Wilson

Actors: Rainn Wilson, Arcade Fire

Synopsis: This 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Rainn Wilson and features musical guest Arcade Fire. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
The Office: Season 04

Synopsis: Season 4 of the acclaimed mockumentary opens with the discovery that Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) has ascended the corporate ladder from fresh-faced intern to stylishly bearded corporate chieftain. The young gun promptly exercises his authority by charging Dunder Mifflin into the digital age, an Read More

2007
My Super Ex-Girlfriend

Actors: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard

Synopsis: A regular guy finds out just how hard breaking up can truly be when attempting to call it quits with a clingy female crime fighter who doesn't want to let love die in director Ivan Reitman's super-powered romantic comedy. Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) was looking for love when he first met pretty Read More

7/21/06
The Accountants: The Best Day of My Life

2006
The Office: Season 03

Synopsis: As Season 3 of The Office gets underway, Pam (Jenna Fischer) remains unable to express her feelings for Jim (John Krasinski) after the pair recently shared a kiss and now Jim has taken a promotion that means transferring to Connecticut. Michael (Steve Carell) has discovered that Oscar (Oscar Read More

2006
Sahara

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz, Lambert Wilson, Glynn E. Turman

Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey stars as explorer and adventurer Dirk Pitt in this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Clive Cussler. Pitt thinks he may have found both a fortune and the answer to a long-standing mystery when he discovers a rare coin in the waters of a river in West Africa. During the Read More

4/8/05
The Office: Season 01

Actors: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak

Synopsis: The American TV version of the award-winning British sitcom The Office opens by establishing its faux documentary format, as Michael Scott (Steve Carell), regional manager of a branch office of Dunder-Mifflin Paper, jumps through hoops to convince the filmmakers that he presides over a happy Read More

2005
The Office: Season 02

Actors: Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak

Synopsis: Season 2 of the hit mockumentary opens with the hardly coveted Dundie Awards, the annual ceremony honoring Scranton employees in such esteemed categories as Hottest in the Office and Whitest Tennis Shoes. In a typical move, regional manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) emcees the show and picks Read More

2005
BAADASSSSS!

Actors: T.K. Carter, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Ossie Davis, Rainn Wilson, Joy Bryant, Khleo Thomas, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to moviemaking, the ground-breaking independent film went on Read More

5/28/04
House of 1000 Corpses

Actors: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick

Synopsis: Taking his cue from such 1970s horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), animated rocker Rob Zombie goes celluloid with the throwback shocker House of 1000 Corpses. Running low on gas as they travel the highways of America in search of the ultimate Read More

4/11/03
Monk: Mr. Monk Goes to the Ballgame

Synopsis: CEO Lawrence Hammond (John Sanderford) and his trophy wife Erin (Darby Stanchfield) are murdered after being lured to a vacant lot. With only the CEO's bizarre last words as a clue, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) figures out that Erin, and not Lawrence, was the murderer's target. And there's more: Erin's Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Timing & Space

Synopsis: While wife Lisa (Lili Taylor) is away at a cooking convention, Nate (Peter Krause) once again finds himself face to face with former fiancée Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). But the occasion isn't a happy or even a nostalgic one: Bernard Chenowith (Robert Foxworth), Brenda's psychiatrist father, has Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: The Trap

Synopsis: Nate (Peter Krause) continues his descent into quiet desperation as Fisher & Diaz prepares to bury the recently unearthed remains of a young husband and father who disappeared without a trace decades earlier. Adding to Nate's just-married angst, Lisa (Lili Taylor) spends her time micromanaging his Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Making Love Work

Synopsis: An attractive, middle-aged woman (Donna Bullock) dies while waiting in line at a self-help seminar, the apparent victim of a massive blood clot from a long-ago nose job. But it's another corpse -- an awesomely large one that falls out of its casket in the middle of the night -- that presents a Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Tears, Bones and Desire

Synopsis: Threesomes, romantic triangles, and even polygamy intersect in the lives of the Fisher family when they're asked to bury Daddy (Leon Rippy), the patriarch of a commune known as "The People." Nate (Peter Krause) and Ruth (Frances Conroy) both find themselves charmed by Daddy's unorthodox clan Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Twilight

Synopsis: Lisa (Lili Taylor) has been missing for two weeks, leaving Nate (Peter Krause) to stew and the rest of the family to slowly lose hope. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- her certainty that her daughter-in-law is dead, Ruth (Frances Conroy) plunges into a new romance with George Sibley (James Cromwell Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Season 03

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Mathew St. Patrick, Peter Krause, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy

Synopsis: Love and death (and the problems they bring) remain the constants in the third season of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. In season three, now that Federico (Freddy Rodriguez) has bought a 25 percent interest in the funeral home, the name changes from Fisher and Sons to Fisher and Diaz, and he Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: I'm Sorry, I'm Lost

Synopsis: With Lisa (Lili Taylor) still missing, mortality hangs heavily in the air as Six Feet Under begins its third-season finale. Simultaneously, however, romantic and sexual liaisons spring -- and cling -- to life. Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) enjoys a chaste, quirky date with a sexy neighbor, while Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: The Opening

Synopsis: The suicide of a recently jilted woman hits close to home for Federico (Freddy Rodriguez) -- who continues to worry that his own wife (Justina Machado) is clinically depressed -- and for Nate (Peter Krause), who sympathizes with the woman's boyfriend's desire to end a relationship that stifled Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Everyone Leaves

Synopsis: As the lives of the Fisher clan drift into isolation, the funeral of Keith's great aunt (Ann Weldon) sets the stage for a major showdown between discontented lovers Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) and David (Michael C. Hall). En route to San Diego for the memorial, the couple quarrel over Keith's Read More

2003
Full Frontal

Actors: David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood

Synopsis: Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot employing a modified version of the frills-free Dogma 95 rules set forth by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, allowing a relatively small budget of Read More

8/2/02
Last Seen

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Joe Minjares, Amanda Detmer, Sally Wingert

2002
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: High and Low

Synopsis: While investigating the death of a grotesquely disfigured man who might or might not have been pushed off a six-story building, Grissom (William L. Petersen) begins experiencing hearing problems. It soon develops that Grissom is suffering from hereditary otosclerosis, which may eventually lead to Read More

2002
America's Sweethearts

Actors: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria

Synopsis: Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring Roth's longtime friend Julia Roberts. Crystal stars as Lee, a studio publicist desperately trying to keep several facts secret from reporters during a high-profile motion Read More

7/20/01
Dark Angel: I and I Am a Camera

Synopsis: Several recent parolees have been bumped off for no discernible reason. The most recent victim was an old friend of Herbal Thought (Alimi Ballard), prompting Max (Jessica Alba) to join Logan (Michael Weatherly) in investigating the killings. Pretty soon, Max realizes she is being stalked by a Read More

2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Strip Strangler

Synopsis: The "signature killer," who has been plaguing the CSI by leaving behind frustratingly tiny bits of evidence at each crime scene, strikes again. Grissom (William L. Petersen) is more convinced than ever that the elusive killer has a working knowledge of forensic procedure -- even to the point of Read More

2001