Brian Baumgartner Biography
Brian Baumgartner is an American actor. Popular for playing Kevin Malone, a character in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013).
10 Quick Facts About Brian Baumgartner
- Name: Brian Baumgartner
- Age: 49 years
- Birthday: 29 November
- Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
- Height: 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m)
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Actor
- Marital Status: Married
- Salary: Under Review
- Net worth: $10 million dollars
Brian Baumgartner Age
Brian is 49 years old as of 2021, he was born on 29 November 1972, in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S. He celebrates his birthday on 29 November every year and his birth sign is Sagittarius.
Brian Baumgartner Height
Brian stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m).
Brian Baumgartner Weight
Baumgartner has a weight of 90 kg.
Brian Baumgartner Education
Brian joined Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School and in 1991 he graduated from The Westminster Schools. Between his junior and senior years of high school, he also attended Northwestern University’s National High School Institute, where he majored in theater and later enrolled at Southern Methodist University, where he specialized in theater and graduated in 1995.
Brian Baumgartner Family
Brian was born and raised by his parents in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Brian’s parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Brian Baumgartner Wife
Baumgartner is happily married to Celeste Ackelson. The couple tied the knot in the year 2014 in a backyard wedding with the Office cast, Oscar Nunez, Angela Kingsey, and Jenna Fisher also attended. The two are blessed with a kid.
Brian Baumgartner’s Net Worth
Brian has an estimated net worth of $10 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money and income. His primary source of income is his career as an actor. Through his various sources of income, Brian has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Brian Baumgartner Measurements and Facts
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Brian.
Brian Baumgartner Wiki
- Full Names: Brian Baumgartner
- Popular As: Brian
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Actor
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: Not Available
- Religion: Not Available
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Brian Baumgartner Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 49 years
- Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
- Date of Birth: 29 November 1972
- Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S
- Birthday: 29 November
Brian Baumgartner Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m)
- Weight: 90 kg
- Eye Color: Not Available
- Hair Color: Not Available
- Shoe Size: Not Available
Brian Baumgartner Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Not Available
- Mother: Not available
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Available
- Marital Status: Married
- Wife/Spouse: Married to Celeste Ackelson
- Dating / Girlfriend: Not Applicable
- Children: One
Brian Baumgartner’s Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: $10 million dollars
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: His career as an actor
Brian Baumgartner Career
His television roles are Jake in Progress, Arrested Development and Everwood. He portrayed a talent scout on Last Comic Standing with his The 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: The Accountants webisodes. His co-stars Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nunez also shared the award. He also appeared in Ingrid Michaelson’s music video “Time Machine.” Baumgartner is also an accomplished golfer.
He served as the Artistic Director of Hidden Theatre situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition, he starred in television series such as Jake in Progress, Arrested Development and Everwood. In 2007, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy.
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Brian Baumgartner Interview
Where are you originally from? What was your childhood like?
I’m originally from Atlanta, Georgia. I was born there, grew up there and I was very into sports until a pretty significant injury and surgery made me get into the acting thing. But, that was at a fairly young age. I was like 13.
Do you mind talking about what happened?
I certainly can. I had a problem with my leg – I played baseball. I went and tried to have some surgery to get it fixed up so I could continue playing baseball. There was a problem and I actually ended up going over the course of a year from a wheelchair to a walker at age 13 to crutches to a cane. This was in junior high.
I had a guy who was in junior high and he left, went to another school and we ended up in high school at the same time. He told me years later; after we became friends that he thought a miracle had happened. He thought that I had been cured, because the whole year that he knew me before, he thought that I had some degenerative disease.
Because I was active and I wanted to stay active and involved, I started doing theater and it kind of stuck from there. The sports thing gradually went away.
What was it like early on? Did you do school plays?
Yeah, I did the school plays. I actually sang once upon a time. I did sort of the whole art thing. I went to the cherub program at Northwestern University after my junior year of high school. It was an amazing experience for high school kids. I decided at that point that this was something that I really wanted to do and eventually, went to a conservatory BFA program at college and was on a very straight and direct path from there.
How tough is it to break into the business? How many auditions did you go to before you landed a role?
A lot of people from our show have done the Improv circuit and have done a lot of Improv stuff. I was a straight theater guy, so I spent a lot of time in Minneapolis and Chicago and around the country doing regional theater and just moved to LA actually about two years ago, maybe two and a half years ago now. So it’s been a long time for me doing theater and I’ve just sort of started now to get into the film and television business side of it.
What made you decide to try to make the switch?
Life in the theater is really hard. The hours in what we do now can be taxing, long and difficult, but performing eight shows a week every night, it’s difficult to have a personal life. It’s difficult to keep up that schedule over an extended period of time and I did for years. Ultimately, I know it’s really cool to hate LA, so I kind of wish I could blast LA and relive the glory days on the east coast or whatever. But I visited out here and I loved it, I loved the weather and the lifestyle and film and television have always been something that interested me and I wanted to do something new and have a new challenge and it’s been great so far. I’ve been incredibly lucky, I will say. The amount of time it’s taken for stuff to start to happen for me out here, I realize how lucky I’ve been.
You’ve appeared on LAX, CSI and Arrested Development. What was it like working on those shows and which one was your favorite appearance?
Every show is different. It’s all been part of a process for me to figure things out. I got cast on The Office after I had been in Los Angeles for about four months. Because of how our show has been picked up and the number of episodes the first year just being six, really that was shooting the pilot, then just doing five more. There’s been a lot of time in there where I’ve done these other shows, but The Office has been a constant for me almost since when I first came out here. I auditioned I believe in January of 2004, so it’s been over two years that that’s been going.
How did land the role of Kevin on The Office, and how was the character explained to you initially?
The character as I understand it was listed on the breakdowns as something like, “The only spectacular thing about Kevin is that he spectacularly has nothing spectacular about him.” The word spectacular used five times basically means there is nothing special. As my agent joked about it, why would anyone’s agent pitch their client for this role? This guy is really dull. There is really nothing special about this guy. But I was familiar with the British version and obviously, I loved that. I pegged this role as being something that would be good for me. The fact that I had been here such a short time and they were really looking for people who weren’t known, I felt gave me an advantage over a lot of shows where they want somebody with a name or want somebody with more credits. The fact that I had done theater and they were looking for something very real and small and subtle I thought helped me as well.
The beauty of Kevin is that it’s not necessarily what he says, but it’s how he says it and the mischievous little smile that usually follows. Can you identify with Kevin? Do you think you are similar to Kevin at all?
(Laughs) I would not say that I am similar to Kevin. No. Whether this is true or not, I don’t know. Some people have said that I am the most unlike my character on the show. But, I guess if you meet me, you can draw your own opinions about that. Maybe I’m deluding myself.
The way that I identify with Kevin or what I think is kind of beautiful about him is – to me he’s someone who has no consciousness or recollection of the past or can identify any ramifications to the future. So he’s a guy that’s just true in the moment. So if he is delighted by something, he lets you know that he is delighted by something, even if he has no awareness that might cause him trouble down the line. It’s a very simplistic way of looking at it, but it allows him to respond truly to how he feels in that exact moment and if he says something that maybe he realizes he shouldn’t have said, it’s only because that is exactly what he was thinking at that exact moment. Does that make sense?
Yeah, it does. That was a pretty deep answer there.
(Laughs.) I’m a really deep guy, unlike Kevin. The other thing that some of us on set have talked about is the evolutionary scale, there’s a certain evolutionary scale of man, that if Michael Scott is at the top of that evolutionary scale and then next in line would be Dwight, Kevin would be the lowest rung. There have been some scenes and suggestions that if Dwight is their punching bag of Michael, then Kevin might be the punching bag for Dwight.
When the show first started did you have any idea it would turn into such a big hit? When did you first get the sense that this show could really take off?
For me, it was very early on. Maybe I’m insane, but whether or not the show was going to succeed or whether people were going to watch it or it was going to become as large a hit as it has become, I don’t know that I could see it, although I believed it. But when we were shooting the first episode after the pilot, which was Diversity Day, I knew that we were doing something that was special and I felt like we were dealing with characters and situations and social issues that don’t get dealt with in primetime television very often. I felt like it was the most sophisticated, interesting look at a race since All In The Family. We were doing something that people simply don’t do anymore. We think about ourselves as being in this progressive society, but whether it’s with PC-ness or whatever, the race is very much a taboo. I felt like in that show, we really dealt with people’s reactions to and thoughts about race and I felt incredibly proud of that episode. That episode will always hold a special place for me. Not to be cheesy or whatever, but I did feel like we were doing something that was special and I hoped that people would watch it.
Would you say that’s your favorite episode so far?
In a nostalgic place maybe. I thought that the Christmas episode was also beautiful in a totally different way. It’s difficult when you have such a large ensemble and so many people that in every episode different people are going to be featured or whatever. But that episode I felt like was a perfect combination, everyone had something to do. I think the show works best when it is an ensemble.
I think that’s one of the things that makes the show unique. It’s all of us locked in a room for 60 hours a week trying to come up with a solid 30 minutes of television. Unlike other shows where you have a lead and the show and the week and the episode consist of different people having a scene with that one person.
To me, it relates back very well again to a theater because we really have built an ensemble and a working relationship that is unique. Part of it is the given circumstances, that we’re all there because it’s a documentary and the camera may move around and see people, we’re all there all the time just because the camera moves or they want to get a reaction shot from somebody. That’s unique and I think special.
We promised James over at Northern Attack that we would ask a question for him. During the Office Olympics episode, did you actually eat all of the M&Ms you had crammed in your mouth?
(Laughs.) No, I did not. Sorry to disappoint. Part of it is, I don’t think we did that many takes, but I might have gone into some sort of sugar coma or something had I done that. But no, they were spat out.
How excited were you to hear that The Office has been picked up for a third season?
Thrilled. I just thought that they did it so early at the winter press tour and they showed some solidarity with us and with Earl in giving us full seasons. That was just really a shot in the arm in terms of us being able to plan ahead, to look to next year at a really early time, which a lot of shows don’t get to do. After how much we have struggled to stay on the air, you have to give NBC nothing but kudos for how much they’ve stuck by the show. The first year, the audiences were not very large, but I feel like they showed what we had promised. Kevin Riley, specifically, was very excited about the show and they stuck with it.
When you look at shows on other networks that run maybe one time and then go away, the fact that they had confidence in us is really great. We did six episodes, then they had us come back at the last minute for just six more episodes for season two and then, I think they picked up three more. Then, they picked up a full 13. And then, I think they picked up three more. And then, they finally picked up a full season for this year. Not very long after they had picked up the full season for this year, they picked up a whole other year.
Brian Baumgartner Filmography
- Herman U.S.A.
- The Lyon’s Den
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- LAX
- Arrested Development
- Jake in Progress
- Everwood
- The Office
- Moosecock
- License to Wed
- Four Christmases
- Celebrity Family Feud
- Into Temptation
- House of Good and Evil
- Dirty Girl
- Adventure Time
- Astronaut: The Last Push
- Wilfred
- Hot in Cleveland
- Mike & Molly
- Criminal Minds
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- The Bridge
- Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
- Melissa & Joey
- The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
- Ordinary World
- Chicago Fire
- Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.
- Scream Queens
- The Goldbergs
- Hand of God
- Life in Pieces
- Good Behavior
- Disjointed
- Summer Camp Island
- My Boyfriend’s Meds
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride
- Trash Truck
- Electric Jesus
- Rumble
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Frequently Asked Questions About Brian Baumgartner
Brian Baumgartner is an American actor. Popular for playing Kevin Malone, a character in the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013).
Baumgartner is an American national born on 29 November 1972, in Atlanta, Georgia, the U.S.
Baumgartner stands at the height of 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m).
Baumgartner is happily married to Celeste Ackelson. The couple tied the knot in the year 2014 in a backyard wedding with the Office cast, Oscar Nunez, Angela Kingsey, and Jenna Fisher also attended. The two are blessed with a kid.
Baumgartner has an approximate net worth of $10 million. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the entertainment industry.
Details about Baumgartner’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Brian is a resident of Los Angeles, California, we shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.
Brian is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Brian is still an active participant in the creative entertainment industry.
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