Nicholas David Offerman (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor. 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.
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 Huluseries Pam & Tommy (2022) and the HBO series The Last of Us (2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He has acted in numerous independent films, including The Kings of Summer (2013), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Founder (2016), and Hearts Beat Loud (2018).
Offerman's other work includes executive producing and starring in the film The House of Tomorrow (2017). He also played the President of the United States in the movie Civil War(2024), directed by Alex Garland. He voiced Agent Powers on Gravity Falls (2012–2016) and has provided voice acting work for The Lego Movie franchise (2014–2019), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), and the Sing film franchise (2016–present). He hosted Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020).
He began co-hosting the NBC reality competition series Making It (2018–2021) with Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler; the duo received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program.
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Primarily2025 Sovereign as Jerry Kane
2025 Smurfs as Ken (voice)
2025 Smurfs | (2025 Movie) – Rihanna
2025 The Pout-Pout Fish as Mr. Fish (voice)
2025 Butterfly in the Typewriter as Bobby Byrne
2025 Canoecraft: Fine Woodstrip Canoe Building as Host / Narrator Producer
2025 The Life of Chuck as Narrator (voice)
2025 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as General Sidney
2024 Civil War as President
2024 Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II as Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 All Illusions Must Be Broken Executive Producer
2023 Origin as Dave the Plumber
2023 Candy Cane Lane as Pip
2023 Dicks: The Musical as Steve Chaney
2023 Dumb Money as Ken Griffin
2022 Minions & More Volume 2 as Norman (voice)
2021 Sing 2 as Norman (voice)
2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans as Vex (voice)
2020 Sacred Cow: The Nutritional, Environmental and Ethical Case for Better Meat as Narrator
2020 Nick Offerman: Full Bush as Self
2020 Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics as Self
2020 A Parks and Recreation Special as Ron Swanson
2020 The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation as Ron Swanson
2019 Lucy in the Sky as Will Plimpton
2019 The House of Tomorrow as Alan Whitcomb Executive Producer
2019 Frances Ferguson as Narrator Executive Producer
2019 J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius as Self
2019 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as MetalBeard (voice)
2018 Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short as Metal Beard (voice)
2018 Bad Times at the El Royale as Felix O'Kelly
2018 Hearts Beat Loud as Francis James "Frank" Fisher Executive Producer
2018 Nostalgia as Henry Greer
2017 Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson as Brad Pitt / George W. Bush / John Swartzwelder
2017 The Little Hours as Bruno
2017 The Hero as Jeremy Frost
2017 Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally - Summer of 69: No Apostrophe as Himself Writer
2017 Infinity Baby as Neo Executive Producer
2017 Gunter Babysits as Norman (voice)
2016 The Founder as Dick McDonald
2016 Sing as Norman (voice)
2016 Ice Age: Collision Course as Gavin (voice)
2016 Welcome to Happiness as Moses
2016 Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry Co-Producer
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 as Mike (voice)
2015 Knight of Cups as Scott
2015 A Walk in the Woods as REI Dave
2015 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl as Greg's Dad
2015 Danny Collins as Guy DeLoach
2014 Believe Me as Sean
2014 The Emmet Awards Show! as MetalBeard (voice / uncredited / archive footage)
2014 22 Jump Street as Deputy Chief Hardy
2014 The Gunfighter as (voice)
2014 Date and Switch as Terry
2014 The Lego Movie as Metal Beard (voice)
2014 Nick Offerman: American Ham as Himself Writer
2013 Dalai Lama as Leo
2013 Millers Unleashed: Outtakes Overload as Self
2013 Stories from the Road: The Making of 'We're the Millers' as Self
2013 Paradise as Doug Mannerheim
2013 In a World... as Heners
2013 We're the Millers as Don Fitzgerald
2013 Somebody Up There Likes Me as Sal Producer
2013 The Kings of Summer as Frank Toy
2013 Tuna
2012 Casa de Mi Padre as Agent Parker
2012 21 Jump Street as Deputy Chief Hardy
2012 Smashed as Dave Davies
2011 Conan O'Brien Can't Stop as Self
2010 All Good Things as Jim McCarthy
2010 Audrey the Trainwreck as David George
2010 Harmony and Me as Meter Maid Man
2009 Taking Chances as Hoke Hollander
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats as Scotty Mercer
2009 Parks and Recreation as Ron Swanson
2008 RSO [Registered Sex Offender] as Simmons
2007 Wristcutters: A Love Story as Cop
2007 The Go-Getter as Nick the Potter
2005 Sin City as Burt Shlubb
2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous as Karl Steele
2005 Cursed as Officer
2004 November as Officer Roberts
2002 Stealing Harvard as Electrician
2002 Murder by Numbers as Cop at Richard's House
2001 Early Bird Special as Laredo
2001 Speaking of Sex as Sheriff Panghorn
2000 Forever Lulu as Man - Boardner's
2000 Groove as Sergeant Channahon
1999 Treasure Island as Samuel
1999 Lush as Gerry
1998 City of Angels as Construction Worker
1997 Going All the Way as Wilks