Jim Halpert

James Duncan Halpert is a fictional character in the American version of the television sitcom The Office, portrayed by John Krasinski. He is introduced as a sales representative at the Scranton branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin, before temporarily transferring to the Stamford branch in the third season. Upon the merger of Scranton and Stamford branches, he becomes Assistant Regional Manager, and later co-manager alongside Michael Scott during the sixth-season episode arc from "The Promotion" to "The Manager and the Salesman". The character is based on Tim Canterbury from the original version of The Office. His character serves as the intelligent, mild-mannered straight man role to Michael. He is also notable for his rivalrous pranks on fellow salesman Dwight Schrute and his romantic interest in receptionist Pam Beesly, whom he begins dating in the fourth season, proposes to in the fifth, marries in the sixth, and has children with in the sixth and eighth. The character is named after a friend, reportedly "since before kindergarten," of Greg Daniels, the developer and executive producer of The Office. The real-life Jim Halpert has been a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm DLA Piper, the General Counsel for the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, and – since his July 2022 diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – an advocate for ALS research funding and member of the board of governors of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins University.