Rainn Wilson was born in Washington, a place called Seattle; he is son to Shay Cooperm, who is a yoga teacher and also an actress and Robert G. Wilson an artist, novelist and business consultant who has written the science fiction novel under the name of Tentacles of Dawn.  He has the ancestry from Norwegian and English. He went to Central Middle School, afterwards he went to Shorecrest High School in Washington and he was playing bassoon and clarinet in a band.  He transferred and when to study at New Trier High School where he graduated since his family moved to start to live in Illinois and to work at Baha’i National Center. He has some background in the theater that he did at Tufts University and also on University of Washington and he was teaching acting classes.

Rainn Wilson is a hold of MFA, that he got from Graduate Acting Program from New York University under Tisch School of The Arts and he was the member for The Acting Company. When he was acting in the Theatrical production in the city of New York, he had to drive a moving van so that he can make ends to meet.

Rainn Wilson is the husband to Holiday Reinhorn and they met during the acting classes in the college and they got married at Kalama River of Washington. The two had a son called Walter McKenzie and he was born in the year 2004.  He resides in Agoura Hills, in California. Their home is outside of the Sisters in the Oregon. He and the family had three pit bulls, Pilot, Barry and Oona together with a zonkey called Derek. Together with the family, they are the members of the Baha’i Faith. The short film that was inspired by the character he had in The Office became selected and it was shown in the Dawn Breakers International Festival that took place in Zurich in 2009.

During the interview at Real Time of Bill Maher, he described himself to a diverse independent and he was voting for the Democratic, Green party and Republican candidates.

Rainn Wilson played like Arthur Martin, an intern At Fisher and Diaz funeral home of Six Feet Under show at HBO.  He was the guest star for Reno 911, Great Job, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Charmed, Numb3ers, Monk, Entourage, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

In 2007, Wilson became the host of Saturday Night Live and he was a second cast member of The Office to be its host and the first one was Steve Carell.  He was the relationship manager called Jim Mike for the United States Women’s National Soccer team for 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup.