Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayJun 26, 1970
BiographyNicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, carpenter, and writer. He became 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.

Offerman has appeared in the second season of the FX crime series Fargo (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as the FX on Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy (2022) and the HBO drama series The Last of Us (2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He portrayed Chester A. Arthur in the Netflix limited series Death by Lightning (2025) and acted in the Apple TV+ dramedy series Margo's Got Money Troubles (2026).

He has acted in numerous films The Kings of Summer (2013), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Founder (2016), The House of Tomorrow (2017), Hearts Beat Loud (2018), Civil War (2024), and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He voiced Agent Powers on Gravity Falls (2012–2016) and voice roles in The Lego Movie franchise (2014–2019), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), the Sing franchise (2016–present), and Smurfs (2025). He hosted Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020).

He began co-hosting the NBC reality competition series Making It (2018–2021) with Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler; the duo received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program.

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