Brian Baumgartner
Brian Baumgartner (born November 29, 1972) is an American actor, director, and author. He is best known for playing Kevin Malone, a character in the NBC sitcom "The Office" (2005–2013). Early life and career. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Baumgartner attended Holy Innocents' Episcopal School. He attended and graduated from The Westminster Schools in 1991, one year before his co-star on "The Office" Ed Helms graduated. During his time at The Westminster School, Baumgartner competed in competitive speech events, drama, reaching the national finals his senior year. Between his junior and senior year of high school, Baumgartner also  attended Northwestern University’s National High School Institute, where he focused on theater. He later attended Southern Methodist University, where he majored in theater and graduated in 1995. He later moved 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 has had roles on the television shows "Jake in Progress", "Arrested Development" and "Everwood". He played 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 "" webisodes. His co-stars Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nunez also shared the award. He also appeared in Ingrid Michaelson's music video for "Time Machine". Baumgartner is an accomplished golfer. In 2020, he hosted and executive produced "An Oral History Of The Office", a podcast for Spotify that featured interviews with his "The Office" co-stars. In 2021, he  hosted and executive produced a podcast for iHeart: "The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner." This podcast features the full-length, in depth interviews with the cast and crew of "The Office" originally heard in "An Oral History Of The Office."