Actor Rainn Wilson's starring television roles include funeral home intern Arthur Martin on the HBO series Six Feet Under and Dwight Schrute on the hit American version of The Office.
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo collaborated with Wilson on the album Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo which was recorded in December 2008 and will be released April 28, 2009. Cuomo, Wilson and actor Jason Schwartzman are joining together on April 11, 2009 for an Alternative Radio Countdown Takeover on Sirius Radio.Rolling Stone: Rivers Cuomo Collaborates With Rainn Wilson (March 31, 2009)
Background
Wilson attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he majored in acting. He writes a blog called "Schrute-Space" in character as Dwight Schrute on the NBC website. His wife, Holiday Reinhorn, is a fiction writer.
Quote
"All kinds of great stuff, but you know what, even if I knew, I would never tell you."—On what to expect from season 5 of The OfficeYouTube Video: Mahalo Daily interviews Rainn Wilson at Comic-Con (Time: 1:25)
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Rainn Wilson Timeline
January 20, 1968: Born in Seattle, Washington
1989: Graduates from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
1995: Marries short story writer Holiday Reinhorn
2000: Almost Famous
2003: Baadasssss! (aka How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass)
2003-2005: Series regular on Six Feet Under
2005: Dwight on The Office
2006: My Super Ex-Girlfriend
2007: Juno
2007: Saturday Night Live