Anecdotes

Rainn writes the blogs for his character Dwight Schrute on the website for his show The Office (2005).

Rainn is the co-creator and host of SoulPancake.com, a website that links spirituality and creativity and 'chews on life's big questions'.

He is a passionate hobby chess player.

Played clarinet and bassoon in the high school band.

Lived as a young child in Nicaragua with his father and step-mother living among the local Baha'i community.

Mother named him after poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Originally came to Los Angeles with a theater piece entitled The New Bozena, a show he created off-Broadway.

MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1989)

Got his start in theater as a member of the Acting Company and remained for several years. Appeared in Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Arena Stage and performed at the Guthrie and other theatrical venues as well.

Son Walter McKenzie Wilson was born in 2004.

His father was of one half Norwegian, one quarter Dutch, and one quarter Swedish ancestry, with the Wilson family line originally coming from Norway. Rainn's mother is of English and Dutch descent.

He was born at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Deadpan character actor famous for his geeky, bespectacled loser, most notably on TV and, more recently, film.

Attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois with [linknm0005383], Liz Phair and Lili Taylor.