Nick Offerman is an American film and theater actor, director, producer, screenwriter and writer. He is best known for his role in the project "Parks and Recreation Areas", for which he was awarded the Television Critics Association Prize. Today, the actor has already played more than a hundred roles in films and TV series. He also dubs famous cartoon characters.
Nick's creative biography began in the late 90s after graduating from the University of Illinois. Immediately after graduation, Nick and his friends organized their own experimental theater, calling it "Defiant Theater".
He not only staged plays and played on stage, but also made decorations on his own. The young man learned carpentry and joinery in early childhood, living on a farm with his grandfather.
The skills that he learned from his business were useful to him in the future. Theatrical performances did not bring income, so Nick worked for a long time in a small carpentry workshop and taught choreography in a theater studio.
early years
The boy was born in a small American town in the summer of 1970. His father taught at school, and his mother worked as a nurse in a local hospital, was engaged in housekeeping and raising children, of whom there were four in the family.
The boy spent all his childhood on the farm with his grandfather. It was he who taught Nick all the intricacies of working on the ground, the ability to engage in woodworking and caring for animals. Later, Nick said more than once that his grandfather played a very important role in his life, teaching him to cope with any difficulties, not to lose heart and to treat life with a smile.
During his school years, Nick became interested in music, learned to play the saxophone. And in high school he began to attend a theater studio. After leaving school, the young man entered the university, where he studied acting and dramatic art.
Offerman graduated with a bachelor's degree and immediately moved to Chicago, where he and his friends opened their own "Daring Theater".
Film career
Nick began acting in films in 1996. He was given a very small role in the action movie "Chain Reaction", but during the editing of the picture, the scenes with Nick's participation were completely cut out. Despite this, Offerman received his first small fee and entered the Screen Actors Guild.
A year later, Nick got a cameo role in the famous TV series "Ambulance" and in the movie "Fellow Travelers". Mark Pellington - the director of the film "Fellow Travelers" - very highly appreciated the work of the young actor and recommended that he move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.
Arriving in Los Angeles, Nick for a long time could not get a single role. He again had to work as a carpenter in the workshop. Only a year later, Offerman starred in an episode of the film "City of Angels".
In the early 2000s, Nick began to appear on the screen in many famous TV series: The King of Queens, The West Wing, Gilmore Girls, 24 Hours, Deadwood, Wayne Days, CSI: New -York.
Nick came to fame in 2009, when he got a role in the project "Parks and Recreation", where he played one of the main characters - director Ron Swanson.
Further career of Offerman is full of many interesting roles in famous films and television projects. He has also been featured in a variety of animated feature voices and whiskey commercials.
In 2018, Nick appeared in Nothing Good at El Royale. And in 2019, two projects are released at once, where the actor plays the central roles: "Developed" and "Good intentions".
Personal life
Comedian Megan Mullally became Offerman's wife in 2003. Nick fell in love with her at first sight, but Megan did not pay attention to him for a long time, and only after a few months she realized that she also had feelings for a man.
Megan is eleven years older than Nick, but this does not prevent them from living a happy family life. The couple tries to spend all their free time together.
In 2018, they published the biography The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, in which they share with their fans the story of their love and happy marriage.
