“There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.”

American actor and filmmaker

John Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker. Born in 1979, he is best known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office, which ran from 2005 to 2013. He also worked on the series as a producer and occasional director. Krasinski later expanded into filmmaking. He directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in A Quiet Place in 2018, then wrote and directed A Quiet Place Part II in 2020. Time included him among its 100 most influential people in the world after the first film.