Rainn Wilson

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443 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

Rainn Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

Look at this.

It's incredible.

So what happened after a decade?

What led you to TV?

Well, I was doing this tour.

It was a bus and truck tour of Shakespeare plays.

So I spent two years on a bus with a group of like 20 actors going from high school to college to community center doing Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet and Two Gentlemen of Verona and night after night after night doing 10 a.m.

matinees in high school cafeterias.

And at the end of this long, long stint on the road, I was on the road with this actor.

We got back and we were collecting our mail after being on the road for six months.

And he had a residual check and he opened it.

And he had spent three days on a Harrison Ford movie.

And he had like a $4,000 check, which was more than I had saved for the entire run of doing the theater.

And he was like, yeah, oh my God.

I opened my student loans, right?

And I realized, oh, I'm gonna need to do some TV and film.

So then, you know, long story short, I really struggled in New York.

I was the only actor in New York who never even auditioned for Law & Order.

Every single episode of Law & Order has

seven or eight people that are like loading boxes or washing glasses or mopping a floor going like, I've seen him here before but I haven't seen him around in a while.

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