- Source of Wealth: Film, Music and Theater
- Age: 54
- Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois
- Height: 1.87 m (6′ 1″)
- Weight: 95 kg (209.44 lbs)
- Marital Status: Married (Alison Dickey)
- Full Name: John Christopher Reilly
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: May 24, 1965
- Ethnicity: Lithuanian, Irish, German, French-Canadian and Scottish
- Occupation: Actor, Comedian, Singer, Screenwriter, Producer and Voice Over Artist
- Education: DePaul University in Chicago
- Children: 2
John C. Reilly is a versatile American theatre and film actor who has a current estimated net worth of $45 million. He was born on 24th May 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. He has also worked as a singer and comedian and earned wealth from this. He is extremely well known for his comic performances. John has been nominated a number of times and has won a few awards as well.
Brian De Palma is famous for launching various actors. Palma also introduced to John Reilly and he immediately spotted the talent. Brian is credited for launching the career of Reilly too. He did so in the film “Casualties of War” of 1969.
Over the years, John C. Reilly has acted in nearly fifty movies. It all started in 1989. His latest performance was in “Wreck-It Ralph” of 2012, where interestingly, he was just a voice artist, something new for John. Some of the other movies where John has performed include Days of Thunder, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Perfect Storm, The Good Girl, Chicago, The Hours, A Prarie Home Companion, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Cyrus, and Terri among others. Gangs of New York, Chicago and The Hours were nominated for 32 different categories in the Oscars.
John has an active music career as well. He runs a band now that is known as “John Reilly & Friends”.
John C. Reilly was brought up as a Roman Catholic. He is the fifth child of his parents. He got married to a film producer named Alison Dickey in 1992. The couple has two sons.