

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. Offerman with the cast of Parks and Recreation in 2012
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In 2007, Offerman co-starred in the Comedy Central series American Body Shop. Monk and the Election" as a helper for the campaign of Natalie Teeger. 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.

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. 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. Offerman has also appeared on her talk show, The Megan Mullally Show. In 2003, he married Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally. During this time, Offerman became acquainted with Amy Poehler, who was heavily involved with the Chicago improv comedy scene. At Steppenwolf, he also worked as a fight choreographer and master carpenter. Offerman lived in Chicago in the mid-1990s, where he participated with theater companies such as Steppenwolf, Goodman, and Wisdom Bridge. That year, he and a group of fellow students co-founded the Chicago theatre company Defiant Theatre. He received a BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1993. Offerman was raised Catholic in nearby Minooka, where he attended Minooka Community High School. His father taught at a high school in Minooka. 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. He began co-hosting the NBC reality competition series Making It (2018–present) with Amy Poehler the duo received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. He also hosted Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020).

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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). Offerman's other work includes executive producing and starring in the film The House of Tomorrow (2017). 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 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). 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. Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and woodworker.
