Brian Baumgartner

Brian Baumgartner
Baumgartner at the premiere of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, December 2007
Born	(1972-11-29) November 29, 1972 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Spouse(s)	Celeste Ackelson (m. 2014)
Children	1

Brian Baumgartner (born November 29, 1972) is an American actor. He played Kevin Malone in The Office.

Biography

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Baumgartner attended Holy Innocents' Episcopal School, he attended and graduated high school at The Westminster Schools (before future Office co-star Ed Helms in 1992). He attended Southern Methodist University before moving to Los Angeles and served as Artistic Director of Hidden Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he received multiple awards for artistic and acting excellence. Later, Baumgartner performed regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children's Theater Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Baumgartner studied acting at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. His television roles are in Jake in Progress, Arrested Development and Everwood. He played a talent scout on Last Comic Standing with his Office co-star Kate Flannery, and starred with Robin Williams, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski in License to Wed. In June 2007, Baumgartner won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program - Comedy, for his work on The Office: Accountants webisodes. His co-stars Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nunez also shared the award.^[1] He also appeared in NBA 2K13 on the all star celebrity team and in Ingrid Michaelson's music video "Time Machine." Baumgartner is an achieved golf player.

Filmography

References

External links

• Brian Baumgartner at the Internet Movie Database
• Brian Baumgartner at AllMovie