Nick Offerman

Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC’s critically acclaimed Parks & Recreation¸ Nick Offerman’s humor has made him a fixture in television culture.

On the Emmy-nominated show Parks & Recreation, Offerman plays the masculine director of a parks and recreation department in small town Indiana. Working alongside the ensemble cast of Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe, Offerman is a comedic heavyweight whose role has developed a cult following. For Parks & Recreation, Offerman received the Television Critics Association Award for Achievement in Comedy in 2011, after a previous nomination in 2010. The Critic’s Choice Awards also nominated him for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for 2011.

He can currently be seen on the big screen in the major comedy, Casa De Mi Padre with Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.

Offerman’s most recent films include 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and Smashed, which recently premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. With a cast that includes Octavia Spencer, Megan Mullally, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul, Smashed is a comedic drama about a married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober. Bob Byington’s film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, in which Offerman both produced and starred in, premiered at the eclectic South By Southwest Festival in March 2012.

He can next be seen in the upcoming comedy Gay Dude and Diablo Cody’s untitled film alongside Julianne Hough, Russell Brand and Octavia Spencer, which is slated for a 2013 release.

Offerman also shared the screen alongside Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things. He has been seen in The Men Who Stare at Goats alongside George Clooney and Kevin Spacey, Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital, and Taking Chances.

Other film credits include: Harmony and Me and RSO [Registered Sex Offender], both written and directed by Bob Byington; Forward alongside Amy Ryan; The Go-Getter with Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone; Wristcutters: A Love Story; Sin City alongside Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson; Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, Cursed; Golf Cart Driving School; November; Pee Shy; Groove and Treasure Island.

Offerman has also tickled television audiences with his roles on Deadwood; Will & Grace; Monk; The West Wing; 24; ER; George Lopez; NYPD Blue; The Practice; The King of Queens; Gilmore Girls and CSI: NY.

Offerman got his start in the Chicago theater community, where he was a founding member of the Defiant Theatre. He worked extensively at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Wisdom Bridge, and Pegasus Players, among many others. Off-Broadway credits include Adding Machine at The Minetta Lane Theater. In Los Angeles, he is a company member of Evidence Room Theater Company, where he has appeared in many plays. He is also the recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for his performance in The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan at Chicago’s Pegasus Players Theatre. He was awarded a second Jefferson Award for the puppets and masks he crafted for The Skriker at the experimental Defiant Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

When he's not working as an actor, Nick can be found making things of wood in his woodshop.