In 2009, The Office producers Michael Schur and Greg Daniels offered Offerman a regular supporting role in their NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation: that of Ron Swanson, the deadpan, government-hating, libertarian head of a city parks department and boss of Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope. Offerman with the cast of Parks and Recreation in 2012 In 2007, Offerman co-starred in the Comedy Central series American Body Shop. Monk and the Election" as a helper for the campaign of Natalie Teeger. He appeared twice on Gilmore Girls, in 2003's "The Festival of Living Art" and 2005's "Always a Godmother, Never a God" and in the third-season episode of Monk, "Mr. Prior to Parks and Recreation, his most prominent role was as a factory worker and Benny Lopez's love interest Randy McGee on George Lopez. At the same time, he began appearing on television as a plumber on Will & Grace on its fourth season's Thanksgiving episode, on The King of Queens, in three episodes of 24, and in an episode of The West Wing. Offerman has also appeared on her talk show, The Megan Mullally Show. In 2003, he married Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally. During this time, Offerman became acquainted with Amy Poehler, who was heavily involved with the Chicago improv comedy scene. At Steppenwolf, he also worked as a fight choreographer and master carpenter. Offerman lived in Chicago in the mid-1990s, where he participated with theater companies such as Steppenwolf, Goodman, and Wisdom Bridge. That year, he and a group of fellow students co-founded the Chicago theatre company Defiant Theatre. He received a BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1993. Offerman was raised Catholic in nearby Minooka, where he attended Minooka Community High School. His father taught at a high school in Channahon. Nicholas David Offerman was born in Joliet, Illinois, on June 26, 1970, the son of nurse Cathy (née Roberts) and social studies teacher Ric Offerman. He starred as Bill in the acclaimed third episode of the HBO series The Last of Us (2023), with some critics naming it potentially the best performance of his career. He also hosted Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020). He voiced Agent Powers on Gravity Falls (2012–2016) and has provided voice acting work for The Lego Movie franchise (2014–present), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and the Sing film franchise (2016–present). Offerman's other work includes executive producing and starring in the film The House of Tomorrow (2017). He also portrayed McDonald's co-founder Richard McDonald in The Founder (2016) and began co-hosting the NBC reality competition series Making It (2018–present) with Amy Poehler the duo received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. He became widely known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), for which he received the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy and was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.įollowing the end of Parks and Recreation, Offerman appeared in the second season of the FX dark comedy-drama series Fargo (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Your preferred fairy tales have no place in a children’s classroom or textbook that professes to be teaching our youngsters what is REAL.Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. But I do think the vast majority of your fellow Americans would appreciate it, kind creationists, if you silly motherfuckers would keep that bullshit out of our schools. You will not be punished for those beliefs in our nation of individual freedoms. I personally think that’s just a touch squirrelly, but that’s your business, not mine. Sing and chant, and eat crackers and drink wine that you claim are magically infused with the blood and flesh of your church’s original grand wizard, the Prince of Peace. You and your fellow creationists profess belief in a magical story. For the record, I don’t believe the book of Genesis ever won one of those. Check out Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, which won a Newbery Medal. It’s a cool story, don’t get me wrong I love magic. If you want to go in so deep as to ignore all of the advances and hard facts that SCIENCE and LEARNING have provided us in the field of biological evolution and instead profess that the creation story, written by men from their holy visions, about how the Christian deity spinning the world together out of the void in the magic of Genesis describes the true origin of the universe, that is your business.
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