Booking Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman Biography

The American actor and comedian Nick Offerman was born in 1970 in Joilet, Illinois. Young Nick attended the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in pursuit of a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  While at the university, he co-founded Defiant Theater alongside some of his classmates. The group became one of the most well-known Chicago-based theater companies, and led to Offerman’s later work with other notable companies, including Goodman and Steppenwolf.

In 2003, Nick Offerman began to receive offers for guest roles on a variety of high profile television shows of the period, including The West Wing, The King of Queens, 24, George Lopez, Gilmore Girls, Monk, and Will & Grace. But his big breakthrough came when he was offered the role of Ron Swanson on the NBC series Parks and Recreation in 2009. The role earned Offerman a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Since his debut on Parks and Recreation, Nick Offerman has appeared in such notable films as: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), 21 Jump Street (2012), We’re the Millers (2013), The Kings of Summer (2013), 22 Jump Street (2014), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Danny Collins (2015.)

In addition to his work as an actor, Nick Offerman is a skilled wood craftsman and makes custom-designed furniture, canoes, and boats. He has also authored two books: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living (2013) and Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers (2015.) Offerman continues to appear on Parks and Recreation, and also voices the animated character Axe Cop for the series of the same name.