Nick Offerman

Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and carpenter. He is best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, 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 is also known for his role in The Founder, in which he portrays Richard McDonald, one of the brothers who developed the fast-food chain McDonald's. His first major television role following the end of Parks and Recreation was as Karl Weathers in the second season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo, for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Since 2018, Offerman has co-hosted the NBC reality competition series, Making It, with Amy Poehler; he and Poehler have received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. Offerman served as an executive producer for the film The House of Tomorrow, in which he also starred. He has provided voice-work for The Lego Movie franchise, Hotel Transylvania 2, Ice Age: Collision Course, and the Sing film franchise and played Agent Powers on Gravity Falls. Most recently, Offerman has hosted Have A Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics on Netflix.

Offerman married actress Megan Mullally on September 20, 2003. They met while acting in The Berlin Circle, a play produced by the Evidence Room Theatre Company, and married after dating for 18 months. While they were still dating, Offerman appeared in a guest role on Mullally's sitcom, Will & Grace, in a 2001 Thanksgiving episode. He later guest-starred in a different role in a 2018 episode. Mullally also had a recurring role on her husband's sitcom, Parks and Recreation as Ron Swanson's second former wife, Tammy 2. The couple have also appeared together in films such as The Kings of Summer and Smashed, as well as performing voice work together in Hotel Transylvania 2, Bob's Burgers, and The Great North. Offerman and Mullally did a live comedy tour in 2016, the theme of which was their sex life.Offerman and Mullally launched a podcast in 2019, In Bed with Nick and Megan, discussing their personal lives and interviewing guests.On whether he is a libertarian like his character Ron Swanson, Offerman has stated, "While I admire the philosophy of the libertarian mindset, I think it's proven to be ineffectual in actual governance. So no, I'm not. I'm a free-thinking American." Upon voting in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries in his home state of California, Offerman tweeted a photo of himself with an "I Voted" sticker, adding the caption "#VoteWarren", referring to the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts and then-presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren. In June 2020, he tweeted his support for Charles Booker, a progressive Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Kentucky.

Offerman was born in Joliet, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Minooka. He is the son of Cathy (née Roberts), a nurse, and Ric Offerman, who taught social studies at a junior high school in nearby Channahon. Offerman was raised Catholic. Offerman attended Minooka Community High School. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1993. That year, he and a group of fellow students co-founded the Defiant Theatre, a Chicago-based theatre company.