Rain Wilson is an American actor, comedian, director and businessman. The most famous project with his participation is the American comedy series "Office", in which the actor always played the role of Dwight Schrut. But this is far from the only project worthy of attention in the filmography of Rain Wilson.
Biography
The future actor was born in Seattle (Washington) in 1966. His mother, Shay Cooper, was a yoga instructor, and his father, Robert Wilson, was a writer whose popularity was brought by the novel "Tentacles of Dawn." When Rain was five, his parents divorced.
In 1983, Rain Wilson entered the University of Washington, where he graduated in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in dramatic art. After that, Wilson moved to New York, where he studied acting. Studying in New York, he managed to play on the stages of many prestigious theaters.
Carier start
Raine's film debut took place in 1997. The actor played a small role in the popular soap opera "One Life to Live." This was followed by an episodic role in the television movie Janet Meyers "The Expendables".
In 1999, Wilson starred with Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver in the comedy sci-fi movie Finding the Galaxy. The film was well received by critics, and the box office was pretty good at $ 90 million.
In 2001, director Cameron Crowe offered Raine a small role in his new drama, Almost Famous. During the filming, Wilson met many Hollywood stars - with Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit and Francis McDormand. The film won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Rain Wilson played his first major role in 2003, when director Rob Zombie invited him to play Bill Hudley in the horror movie House of 1000 Corpses. Film critics did not really like the film. They found the script too weak and the plot trivial. From the audience, the tape received mixed reviews.
The actor played small roles in the popular detective series Law and Order: Special Corps, CSI: Crime Scene, and 4 Isla.
Acting breakthrough
Now Wilson is a popular Hollywood actor. The complete filmography of Rain Wilson has more than 50 films and television series. His success was largely facilitated by the role of manager Dwight Schrut in the comedy television series Office. The actor got the role in 2005 and was its permanent performer until 2013 until the end of the series. "Office" was very popular in the USA - it was watched by more than 9 million viewers. The series was awarded the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, and critics spoke positively of it.
In 2005, the actor played a supporting role in the adventure action movie "Sugar" Breck Eisner. The literary source for the film was the novel of the same name by Clive Kassler. Despite all the efforts of the actors and the director, the tape failed at the box office: with a budget of $ 160 million, the box office amounted to 120 million.
A year later, Rain Wilson played in the fantastic action movie "My Super-Ex." Together with him, Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris starred in the film. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but found its fans among fans of fantastic comedies.
In Jason Reitman’s melodrama “Juneau”, one of the main roles - Rollo - was played by Rain Wilson. Jason Reitman’s films have always been liked by critics, and Juneau was no exception. The film became one of the highest grossing films of the year, raising $ 231 million at the box office with a budget of $ 7 million. The Juneau film was awarded the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and markedly added popularity to all the actors who worked on it.
In 2009, one of the main characters of the cartoon "Monsters Against Aliens" - Galaktazar spoke in the voice of Rain Wilson. The cartoon fell in love with both children and adults.
Modern period
In 2010, the actor was selected for the lead role in James Gann's black comedy "Super." The parody of the superhero films was received by critics ambiguously. The complete absence of advertising did not benefit the tape, and even the star cast did not save it from a box office failure: the box office amounted to only 327 thousand dollars.
In the same year, the actor played the father of the protagonist in the drama "Hasher". This film was not particularly successful, even few people know about its existence.
Another noteworthy project in the filmography of the actor is the psychological horror "Boy" (2015) of director-debutant Craig McNeill. The protagonist of this dark, chilling story is a boy named Ted Henley, who lives with his father in a motel by the road. Ted is not like other children. He behaves strangely, and some of his addictions are completely shocking. What made him so? What kind of atrocities is this ordinary, at first glance, child capable of? Film critics praised this thin, gloomy story, the film received mixed reviews from the audience.
Now the actor is working on the adventure horror "MEG", which will be released in 2018.
