Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson, born Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, and writer.
He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office, for which he earned three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute in The Office in 2005, a role which he played until the show’s conclusion in 2013.
In 2009, he provided his voice for the computer-animated science fiction film Monsters vs. Aliens as the villain Gallaxhar and voiced Gargamel in Smurfs: The Lost Village.
Outside of acting, Wilson published an autobiography, The Bassoon King, in 2015, and co-founded the digital media company SoulPancake in 2008. In 2022, Rainfall changed its name in an effort to raise awareness for climate change.
Does Rainn Wilson actually play guitar?
Wilson also is proficient in playing the bassoon, the guitar, clarinet, along with a smattering of other instruments. Dammit, creators of ‘The Office’, you missed your opportunity to have Dwight play in a one-man band.
The 41-year-old Rainn Wilson, a star of television shows like HBO*’s Six Feet Under and NBC*’s The Office, has established a career in film with his role in the movie Juno and Missing Pieces, among others.
Rainn said; I play the guitar some and, as you know, you can use the same hand position all the way up the neck. But with piano, you have to learn which black keys, and which white keys are in the scale. It’s so much harder!
It is harder. You have to really know what you’re doing intellectually around what you’re fingers are doing. With guitar, it’s like, oh here’s C and D and E and G and I can just strum these and I can put together 3/4 of all rock songs, I can just play and play.