![]() ![]() I know that I love my father who passed away a few years back," Wilson says, tearing up. ![]() God is as real to me as my body is – as my rapidly decaying body," he said. Wilson, who is also a podcaster and cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, says he has now resolved any personal uncertainty about a higher power. He says the answers from those around him helped ignite his "spiritual quest." Maybe that's why I played Dwight so effectively, apparently." "And it's so funny because I've always identified as being a dork and a misfit and an outsider. ![]() "It's so not cool to be religious," Wilson says. I would ask my friends, 'Hey, do you believe in God?' " "The very first question that I pondered as I was on this journey was, is there a God?. ![]() Then he says, in his 20s, when he was struggling to make it as an actor in New York and suffering from acute anxiety, depression and addiction - he began looking for answers. Later, he began rejecting "everything to do with religion and faith and spirituality." In an interview for Morning Edition, Wilson tells NPR's Rachel Martin about a spiritual odyssey that began as a child, growing up in the Baha'i faith of his family. He is a graduate of the NYU Graduate Acting Program and an alumnus of The Acting Company."Why the hell would the guy who played Dwight on The Office be writing a book about spirituality?"Įmmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson says he knows that's the question people ask when hearing about his new book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. In 2013, he co-founded a non-profit in Haiti with his wife, author Holiday Reinhorn, called “The Lidè Foundation” that provides arts and literacy education for at-risk adolescent girls. On November 10th, Wilson’s critically acclaimed memoir titled The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy was published by Dutton. He is the founder of the mission-driven media company SoulPancake which currently has almost two million YouTube followers and over 200 million video views. Next up, starring roles in the feature film thriller Shimmer Lake and Army of One (with Nicholas Cage) as well as voicing the character of Gargamel in the animated feature Get Smurfy. Aliens and Super, Wilson recently starred in the horror-comedy Cooties as well as in The Boy which premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival. In addition to big screen roles in Almost Famous, Galaxy Quest, Sahara, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Juno, The Rocker, Monsters vs. On stage, he has appeared on and off Broadway and in a host of roles at some of the country’s most celebrated regional theaters such as the Guthrie and the Arena Stage. Following a host of guest appearances on television including Law & Order, CSI and Entourage, his breakthrough came when he played assistant mortician, Arthur Martin, in HBO’s hit series Six Feet Under winning him and the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.” Wilson was then cast in his memorable role as the quirky Dwight Schrute in The Office on NBC, netting him three SAG Awards for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series” and three Emmy nominations for “Best Supporting Actor” during its nine-year, two hundred episode run. Emmy-nominated and SAG Award-winning actor Rainn Wilson has found himself in a variety of comedic and theatrical roles throughout his career. ![]()
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