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.
What has Rainn Wilson done since The Office?
Wilson founded the website and YouTube channel SoulPancake. As of February 20, 2019, the channel has over 3 million subscribers and over 557 million video views.
SoulPancake has been featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Satellite Radio Show and Super Soul Sunday. The tagline of the brand is: “We make stuff that matters”.
They were named one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video for 2015. More recently, SoulPancake was ranked No. 114 on the 2015 Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America List. In October 2016, it was purchased by Participant Media.
He co-wrote the New York Times bestseller SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions and wrote a humorous memoir about his personal life, career and faith called The Bassoon King that was published in November 2015.
Wilson is a climate change activist and visited Greenland in 2019 with Arctic Basecamp whose Advisory Board he also serves on. During his Greenland trip, Wilson made a documentary “The Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change” which is available to stream online.
In 2021, Wilson starred in the comedy audio series Dark Air with Terry Carnation, in which he also voices the title character.
The podcast series is based on his character Terry Carnation from the Radio Rental podcast, created by Payne Lindsey. Wilson also competed in the Chess.com PogChamps 3 chess competition, finishing in second place after a tiebreaker game with French streamer Sardoche.