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Jim Rash
Rash in July 2013
Born	James Rash (1971-07-15) July 15, 1971 (age 53) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupations	Actor comedian filmmaker
Years active	1995–present

James Rash (born July 15, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his role as Dean Craig Pelton on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015) for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012. In the same year, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received a Golden Globe nomination for the film The Descendants.

Early life

Rash was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 15, 1971. Both he and his sister were adopted. He attended Charlotte Latin School. After graduating, he spent a post-graduate year at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He was a member of The Groundlings, the improv comedy group based in Los Angeles.

Career

Rash played Mr. Grayson/Stitches in the 2005 film Sky High, Fenton on That '70s Show, and Andrew the "whore house guy" on Reno 911! He appeared in the final episode of Friends, and played Head T.A. Philip in Slackers. From 2009 to 2015, Rash starred on Community as Craig Pelton, the dean of the community college in which the show takes place.

Rash and comedy partner Nat Faxon moved into screenwriting with a pilot in 2005 for a series entitled Adopted, which did not take off. They wrote the screenplay for The Descendants (2011), based on the novel of the same name, which appeared on the 2008 edition of the Black List (the most popular unproduced scripts in Hollywood at that time). The film was released to critical acclaim, receiving a Golden Globe nomination and winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. However, the final script for the "Descendants" was largely re-written by screenwriters and directors Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Payne would go on to direct the film. In an interview with the "Vulture", Payne discussed an agreement between Payne/Taylor and Rash/Faxon. During the awards circuit for "The Descendants", Rash/Faxon would deliver the acceptance speeches for all of the awards except the Academy Award; the Academy Award speech would be handled by Payne/Taylor.

Rash and Faxon then co-wrote and co-directed the film The Way Way Back (2013), which received a standing ovation at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Parts of the film are based on Rash's teenage life.

Since 2017, he has been the official voice actor for Donald Duck universe character Gyro Gearloose in the reboot of DuckTales.

Personal life

Rash came out as part of the LGBTQ community in 2012 while he was filming The Way Way Back (2013); he shared his coming out story from years earlier in his Instagram post on October 11, 2018 for National Coming Out Day.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ Ebert, Roger (November 16, 2011). "The Descendants". The Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago, Illinois: Sun-Times Media Group. Retrieved March 15, 2012 – via rogerebert.com.
2. ^ Interview with Paul F. Tompkins, 'Speakeasy' Community's Jim Rash is TV Ugly - Speakeasy on YouTube
3. ^ Carter, Lance (November 19, 2010). "Q & A: Community's Jim Rash". Daily Actor. Retrieved March 15, 2012. Two things sort of started me towards what I wanted to do. One was I went to a school called Charlotte Latin School, in Charlotte and after I graduated from there, I really wanted to go to Chapel Hill. And, I just — now the world will know — my grades weren't great. I'll confess that, and so I really wanted to – I went to a post-graduate year at a boarding school up in New Jersey called the Lawrenceville School.
4. That '70s Show (TV Series 1998–2006), retrieved 2018-06-23
5. ^ Profile Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, charlotteobserver.com; accessed October 6, 2017.
6. Brown, Lane (December 15, 2008). "The Black List 2008: The Full List". New York. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
7. Labrecque, Jeff. "Sundance 2013: The Way, Way Back makes huge splash with nostalgic summer comedy". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
8. Rash, Jim (October 11, 2018). "Jim Rash on Instagram: "I post these two unspectacular selfies in my celebration of #NationalComingOutDay as they are, in fact, of the moment in my life when I…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2020-10-22. These were taken at the halfway point of shooting #TheWayWayBack. What was one of the most stressful and exhilarating moments of my life, thus far, also became the most freeing and poignant. This was when I would allow my heart to open itself to what it knew all along. I make it a point not to judge my timeline or regret not coming out earlier. I just love how I got to these selfies, and I love even more where I've been since them. For the past six years, I've been true, open and vulnerable. And, more importantly, I've been me.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
9. thewrap.com
10. deadline.com
11. "19TH ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS NOMINATIONS". Retrieved December 31, 2013.

External links

• Jim Rash at IMDb

• 1971 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American comedians
• 21st-century American comedians
• 20th-century American male actors
• 21st-century American male actors
• American adoptees
• American film producers
• American male comedians
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• American male screenwriters
• Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners
• Gay actors
• Gay writers
• Lawrenceville School alumni
• LGBT comedians
• LGBT directors
• LGBT entertainers from the United States
• LGBT screenwriters
• Male actors from Charlotte, North Carolina
• Male actors from North Carolina
• Screenwriters from North Carolina
• Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina