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Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He became widely known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), 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 has also appeared in the second season of the FX series Fargo (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as the FX on Hulu series Pam & Tommy (2022), and the HBO series The Last of Us (2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has acted in numerous independent films such as The Kings of Summer (2013), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Founder (2016), and Hearts Beat Loud (2018). Offerman's other work includes executive producing and starring in the film The House of Tomorrow (2017). He voiced Agent Powers on Gravity Falls (2012–2016) and has provided voice acting work for The Lego Movie franchise (2014–present), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and the Sing film franchise (2016–present). He also hosted Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020). He began co-hosting the NBC reality competition series Making It (2018–2021) with Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler; the duo received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. Early life Nicholas David Offerman was born in Joliet, Illinois, on June 26, 1970, the son of nurse Cathy (née Roberts) and social studies teacher Ric Offerman. His father taught at a high school in Minooka. Offerman was raised Catholic in nearby Minooka, where he attended Minooka Community High School. He received a BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1993. That year, he and a group of fellow students co-founded the Chicago theatre company Defiant Theatre. Career Acting Offerman lived in Chicago in the mid-1990s, where he participated with theater companies such as Steppenwolf, Goodman, and Wisdom Bridge. At Steppenwolf, he also worked as a fight choreographer and master carpenter. During this time, Offerman became acquainted with Amy Poehler, who was heavily involved with the Chicago improv comedy scene.In 2003, he married Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally. Offerman has also appeared on her talk show, The Megan Mullally Show. At the same time, he began appearing on television as a plumber on Will & Grace on its fourth season's Thanksgiving episode, on The King of Queens, in three episodes of 24, and in an episode of The West Wing. Prior to Parks and Recreation, his most prominent role was as a factory worker and Benny Lopez's love interest Randy McGee on George Lopez. He appeared twice on Gilmore Girls, in 2003's "The Festival of Living Art" and 2005's "Always a Godmother, Never a God" and in the third-season episode of Monk, "Mr. Monk and the Election" as a helper for the campaign of Natalie Teeger. In 2007, Offerman co-starred in the Comedy Central series American Body Shop. In 2009, The Office producers Michael Schur and Greg Daniels offered Offerman a regular supporting role in their NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation: that of Ron Swanson, the deadpan, government-hating, libertarian head of a city parks department and boss of Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope. Slate magazine declared Offerman "Parks and Recreation's secret weapon", and said he regularly stole scenes and "has a gift for understated physical comedy." The role weaves antagonism and political philosophy with humanity, while the intense libertarian philosophy the character lives out is often played off against the equally intense social liberalism and "do-gooder" mentality of Poehler's character. Offerman said that supporting parts such as that of Parks and Recreation are his ideal roles, and that he draws particular inspiration from Reverend Jim Ignatowski, the character played by Christopher Lloyd in the sitcom Taxi.Offerman has also been featured in the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital with Rob Corddry and Rob Huebel. He is the voice of Axe Cop in the animated series of the same name that premiered on July 27, 2013. In the same year, Offerman portrayed Johnny Cool in the "Boston" episode of Derek Waters' Drunk History on Comedy Central. In 2014, he portrayed a lovesick German talk show host in The Decemberists' video, Make You Better . The same year, he also appeared in a short film The Gunfighter directed by Eric Kissack. Nick played the role of the narrator of the film where the actors of the film break the fourth wall and are able to hear the narrator.Offerman can be seen on the big screen briefly as a construction worker in City of Angels (1998) and later in other films such as November (2004), Cursed (2005), Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005), Sin City (2005), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) and The Kings of Summer (2013). He also appeared in the 2006 film Wristcutters: A Love Story as a cop who attempts to arrest Shannyn Sossamon's character, Mikal. 2012 saw him in two film roles, as 21 Jump Street's Deputy Chief Hardy and in Casa de Mi Padre as DEA Agent Parker. He reprised his role as Deputy Chief Hardy in 22 Jump Street two years later. Additionally, he starred in and produced an independent film, Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012), shot in Austin, Texas. He appeared in the 2013 comedy We're the Millers, which starred Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston, and voiced MetalBeard in The Lego Movie. Offerman conceived of and starred in punk band FIDLAR's 2013 video for their song "Cocaine". Offerman also played an alcoholic college guidance counselor in Believe Me. Offerman played the recurring role Karl Weathers in the second season of Fargo (2015). Offerman voiced Grandpa Mike alongside wife Megan Mullally who voiced Grandma Linda in Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015). He portrayed the first establisher of McDonald's, Dick McDonald, in The Founder (2016). Offerman also starred in alternative rock band They Might Be Giants' 2018 video for their song "The Greatest".In 2023, Offerman appeared in the third episode of the HBO series The Last of Us as Bill. His performance, along with that of his co-star Murray Bartlett, was critically acclaimed, with some critics naming it a career-best performance, and Dais Johnston of Inverse labelled them as "Emmy-worthy". He went on to win Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2023 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Also in 2023, Offerman has also teamed up with Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid for a Crime Thriller "Sovereign". Woodworking In addition to acting, Offerman is also a professional boat builder and has a side business as a wood craftsman. Offerman makes furniture and other wooden structures such as canoes and boats at his woodshop. He also released an instruc.... Discover the Nick Offerman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Nick Offerman books.

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  • Last of the Great Scouts synopsis, comments

    Last of the Great Scouts

    Helen Cody Wetmore

    Last of the Great Scouts is a biography of William F. Cody a.k.a Buffalo Bill, written by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore. Buffalo Bill was of the most famous and wellknown figures o...

  • The Autobiography of Davy Crockett synopsis, comments

    The Autobiography of Davy Crockett

    David Crockett

    "In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me alo...

  • Paradise Bend synopsis, comments

    Paradise Bend

    William Patterson White

    Paradise Bend is an exciting western novel by William Patterson White. White was famous for writing books such as The Owner of the Lazy D, Paradise Bend, Hidden Trails, The Heart o...

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    The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

    Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman

    A New York Times BestsellerMegan Mullally and Nick Offerman reveal the full story behind their epic romancepresented in a series of intimate conversations between the couple, inclu...

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    Axe Cop Volume 1

    Malachai Nicolle & Various Authors

    Bad guys, beware! Evil aliens, run for your lives! Axe Cop is here, and he's going to chop your head off! We live in a strange world, and our strange problems call for strange hero...

  • Good Clean Fun synopsis, comments

    Good Clean Fun

    Nick Offerman

    After two New York Times bestsellers, Nick Offermanwoodworker, actor, comedian, and cohost of NBC’s crafting competition series Making Itreturns with the subject for which he’s kno...

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    American Revolution

    Charles Howard McIlwain

    American Revolution is a Pulitzer Prize awarded history which deals with legal and political aspects of the American Revolution. The American Revolution began and ended with the po...

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    The Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw

    John Milton Scanland

    "Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw" is the firs hand account of Pat Garrett's life. Written in 1908, the year Garett was murdered, this book is...

  • Red-Blooded American Male synopsis, comments

    Red-Blooded American Male

    Robert Trachtenberg

    A collection of 100 inspired and surprising portraits of celebrities and everymen alike from the awardwinning photographer Robert Trachtenberg.Paul Rudd checking out...

  • The First Accounts of New World synopsis, comments

    The First Accounts of New World

    Edward Winslow, William Bradford & Dwight B. Heath

    The First Accounts of New World is a unique collection of the earliest historical accounts from colonial America. It includes three autobiographical works of two prominent colonial...

  • The Bassoon King synopsis, comments

    The Bassoon King

    Rainn Wilson

    From the threetime Emmy nominated actor, climate activist, and author of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual RevolutionRainn Wilson’s memoir is about growing up geeky and finally fi...

  • A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett synopsis, comments

    A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett

    David Crockett

    "In the following pages I have endeavoured to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me alo...

  • Where the Deer and the Antelope Play synopsis, comments

    Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

    Nick Offerman

    A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by th...

  • This Book Has Balls synopsis, comments

    This Book Has Balls

    Michael Rapaport

    The sports world according to Michael Rapaportactor, Top 50 podcaster, awardwinning film maker, and sports fanaticfrom the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, an...

  • Gumption synopsis, comments

    Gumption

    Nick Offerman

    The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twentyone figures from our ...

  • The Apache Expedition in the Sierra Madre synopsis, comments

    The Apache Expedition in the Sierra Madre

    John Gregory Bourke

    The Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre is a firsthand historical account written by a captain in the United States Army, John Gregory Bourke. The book presents the details of the ...

  • 31 Years on the Plains and in the Mountains synopsis, comments

    31 Years on the Plains and in the Mountains

    William F. Drannan

    ThirtyOne Years on the Plains and in the Mountains is autobiographical account of Captain William F. Drannan, Scouts Chief. The author has narrated in his own blunt way the inciden...

  • Brad and Angelina synopsis, comments

    Brad and Angelina

    Chas Newkey-Burden

    Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the bestknown and most talkedabout couple in the world. When they got together in 2005 it made headlines worldwide everyone wanted to know the ful...

  • Cuyahoga synopsis, comments

    Cuyahoga

    Pete Beatty

    Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel“Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventivea 19thcentury legend for 21stcentury America” (The Boston Globe). Big So...

  • Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border synopsis, comments

    Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border

    Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

    Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border is a collection of biographies of valiant and daring adventurers, who were among the early settlers of the Wild West. These men were re...

  • On The Border With Crook synopsis, comments

    On The Border With Crook

    John Gregory Bourke

    On the Border with Crook is considered one of the best firsthand accounts of frontier army life, as the author of the book gives equal time to both the soldier and the Native Ameri...

  • Bob Hampton of Placer synopsis, comments

    Bob Hampton of Placer

    Randall Parrish

    The story revolves around an army officer, Bob Hampton, and his redemption about how he was unjustly accused of a crime that he did not commit. It's a well written western nove...

  • The Heroes of the Last Frontier synopsis, comments

    The Heroes of the Last Frontier

    Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

    The Heroes of the Last Frontier is a collection of biographies of valiant and daring adventurers, who were among the early settlers of the Wild West. These men were real scouts and...

  • Keith of the Border synopsis, comments

    Keith of the Border

    Randall Parrish

    'Keith of the Border' is a western adventure fiction written by Randall Parrish. Parrish wrote popular potboilers and historical novels and was trained as a lawyer; he spen...

  • The Frontier in American History synopsis, comments

    The Frontier in American History

    Frederick Jackson Turner

    The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier s...

  • Thirty One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains synopsis, comments

    Thirty One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains

    William F. Drannan

    ThirtyOne Years on the Plains and in the Mountains is autobiographical account of Captain William F. Drannan, Scouts Chief. The author has narrated in his own blunt way the inciden...

  • Paddle Your Own Canoe synopsis, comments

    Paddle Your Own Canoe

    Nick Offerman

    Parks and Recreation actor and Making It cohost Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.Growin...

  • The True Tales of The Most Famous Frontiersmen synopsis, comments

    The True Tales of The Most Famous Frontiersmen

    Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

    This is a collection of biographies of valiant and daring adventurers, who were among the early settlers of the Wild West. These men were real scouts and trappers, for they lived i...

  • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution synopsis, comments

    The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

    William Cooper Nell & Harriet Beecher Stowe

    The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, is an American history book written by William Cooper Nell, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on AfricanAme...

  • Canada Under British Rule 1760-1900 synopsis, comments

    Canada Under British Rule 1760-1900

    John G. Bourinot

    Canada under British Rule covers the first 400 years of Canadian history, from the French discovery in the early 16th century until the establishing of the Confederation in 19th ce...

  • Good Newes From New England synopsis, comments

    Good Newes From New England

    Edward Winslow & Alexander Young

    Good Newes From New England is Edward Winslow's journal which covers the events that occurred between 1622 and 1623 at Plymouth Colony.  It includes firsthand information from ...

  • The Ferris Conspiracy synopsis, comments

    The Ferris Conspiracy

    Paul Ferris & Reg McKay

    On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godf...

  • Wild Bill Hickok synopsis, comments

    Wild Bill Hickok

    Frank Jenners Wilstach

    It has not been the purpose of this book to novelize Wild Bill Hickok. That has already been done, and rather effectively. The main purpose of this work is to find out what was rea...

  • An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre synopsis, comments

    An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

    John Gregory Bourke

    An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre is a firsthand historical account written by a captain in the United States Army, John Gregory Bourke. The book presents the details of the e...