Actor Nick Offerman honed an immediately identifiable image -- that of a rugged, imposing presence with an unmistakably menacing onscreen aura, occasionally tempered by nuttiness -- and parlayed it into a long string of offbeat characterizations. After guest spots on such prime-time series as ER and Gilmore Girls, and bit parts in features including Treasure Island (1999), Groove... (read more) (2000), and November (2003), Offerman graduated to lead status with a decidedly wacky triple role in Martin Hynes' road movie The Go-Getter (2007). That same year, audiences could also catch Offerman via his small supporting role as a cop in Goran Dukic's jet-black comic romance Wristcutters: A Love Story. Meanwhile, Offerman also signed for one of the lead roles -- as an auto mechanic -- on the satirical Comedy Central series American Body Shop (2007). In 2009 he was cast as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, and this turned out to be his breakthrough role. He parlayed that success into appearances in films like The Men Who Stare at Goats, All Good Things, Casa de me Padre, and the big-screen comedy version of 21 Jump Street. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Casa de mi Padre
R 2012
The son (Will Ferrell) of a rancher unwittingly gets into a war with a local drug lord (Gael Garcia Bernal) after his supposedly wealthy brother (Diego Luna) turns out to...
Somebody Up There Likes Me
NR 2012
Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman heads up the cast of writer/director Bob Byington's deadpan farce tracing 35 years in the lives of three friends who dutifully...

21 Jump Street
R 2012
The television series that shot Johnny Depp to stardom makes the leap to the big screen in this reboot starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Schmidt (Hill) and...

Parks and Recreation: Season 03
2011
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All Good Things
R 2010
The wealthy heir to a prominent real-estate magnate becomes caught up in a high-profile murder investigation in this thriller inspired by the real-life case of Robert Durst,...

The Men Who Stare at Goats
R 2009
Loosely adapted from a nonfiction book by Jon Ronson, Grant Heslov's directorial debut The Men Who Stare at Goats begins as heartbroken reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan...

Parks and Recreation: Season 01
2009
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Parks and Recreation: Season 02
2009
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American Body Shop [TV Series]
2007
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The Go-Getter
R 2007
For the follow-up to his feature debut, 1999's The Big Split, filmmaker Martin Hynes took on this bittersweet road movie about a teenager responding to the untimely death...
Forward
2007
Amy Ryan (Keane, The Wire) and Nick Offernan co-headline director Cecily Rhett's 13-minute fictional short Forward. The seriocomic work covers a reenactment of...

Wristcutters: A Love Story
R 2006
Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken young man sets out to find...

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
PG13 2005
FBI agent-turned-reluctant beauty queen Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) is taking on both bad guys and high glamour again in this sequel to the comedy smash Miss...
Gilmore Girls: Always a Godmother, Never a God
2005
Hoping to mend the rift between Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), Sookie (Melissa McCarthy) asks them to be godmothers for her babies -- but the...
Monk: Mr. Monk and the Election
2005
To prevent her daughter's school from being closed, Natalie (Traylor Howard) runs for a school board election. Unfortunately, someone connected with the election inexplicably...
Gilmore Girls: The Festival of Living Art
2003
Stars Hollow is chosen as the site for the annual Festival of Living Pictures. Cast as Jesus in a staging of "The Last Supper," Kirk (Sean Gunn) goes way too far "losing"...

November
R 2003
From a script by first-time screenwriter Benjamin Brand, filmmaker Greg Harrison helmed this fantastical, psychological drama, the follow-up to his 2000 Independent...

Murder By Numbers
R 2002
When a pair of bright-but sociopathic teens conspires to commit the perfect murder, a troubled cop teams with her eager new partner to solve the case that left the community in...
NYPD Blue: Everyone Into the Poole
2001
After pulling in a couple of teenaged suspects who turn out to be innocent bystanders, Greg (Gordon Clapp) and Baldwin (Henry Simmons) try to solve the murder of a...

Lush
R 2000
Mark Gibson directs this quirky comedy about golf, drunks, and divorcees. The film focuses on pro-golfer and ex-con Lionel "Ex" Exley (Campbell Scott), who comes to New...