"Make the rest of your life happy. For me, when I started dating Megan [Mullally], my auditions became so much better, because I knew that when I came home from the audition I got to kiss her. I didn't give a damn about the audition nearly as much, and that gave me a sense of confidence."
— Nick Offerman on starting an acting career.
Nicholas "Nick" Offerman (born June 26, 1970 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American actor. He has had a steady acting career in film and TV since 1997, but his Star-Making Role was Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation. He's well known for his distinctive Baritone of Strength and deadpan delivery. He is also an accomplished woodworker and has showcased his abilities on Parks and Recreation and Last Call with Carson Daly.
He has been married to Megan Mullally since 2003.
Notable Roles:
- Axe Cop from Axe Cop
- Detective Chance Briggs from Childrens Hospital
- Deputy Chief Hardy from 21 Jump Street
- Metalbeard from The LEGO Movie
- Randy from The George Lopez Show
- Rob from American Body Shop
- Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation
- Sal from Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Wood carver in Nick Offerman American Ham
- Agent Powers in Gravity Falls, credited as Key Vigenére
- Don Fitzgerald in We're the Millers
- Frank Fisher in Hearts Beat Loud
- Karl Weathers from Fargo
- Metalbeard and Michael Knight from LEGO Dimensions
- Varvatos Vex in 3Below
- Captain Covaci (English dub) in Comrade Detective.
- The host, with Amy Poehler, of Making It
- Norman in Sing
- Richard "Dick" McDonald in The Founder
- Narrator in Frances Ferguson
- Thaddeus Dowling in Good Omens (2019)
- Forest in Devs
- Beef Tobin in The Great North
- Milton Owen Ingley aka "Uncle Miltie" in Pam & Tommy
- Dove Porter in A League of Their Own (2022)
- Bill in The Last of Us (2023)
- TBA in Candy Cane Lane
I hate tropes. Tropes are stupid.
- Badass Creed: "Paddle your own canoe," from his one-man comedy show American Ham. Clear, sound advice, but just vague enough to be applicable in a great many aspects of life.
- I Am Not Spock: Although he has some similarities to Ron Swanson, such as carpentry, saxophone playing, possessing a mustache, and fooling around with Megan Mullally, he has had to make it clear on multiple occasions that he is not a hyper-masculine libertarian Gun Nut."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."
- Manly Facial Hair: His characters sport a wide variety of impressive whiskers, as he also does between roles, as seen above.
- Sophisticated as Hell: His writing style, such as describing how British policy toward the American colonies "caused their collective asses to become severely chapped" or describing the inherent dignity of each human being, then contrasting that view with "racist fuck-nuts".
