Jim O'Heir

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James O'Heir (born February 4, 1962) is an American actor and comedian best known for co-starring Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. O'Heir first appeared in Chicago theater and improv during the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the comedic theater troupe "White Noise," and appeared in such plays as The Book of Blanche, Stumpy's Gang, and Ad-Nauseam with the group.

O'Heir has appeared in many films and appeared on several television shows including Friends, Boston Court, Malcolm in the Middle, and Parenthood. Harvey Krudup, the husband of protagonist Tammi Tyler, who was played by Julie Brown, appeared in a regular role in the Comedy Central series Strip Mall in 2000.

O'Heir, a regular support cast member of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, began appearing Jerry Gergich in 2009.

Early life and education

O'Heir was born in Chicago and graduated from the Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois, and Loyola University Chicago.

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Career

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, O'Heir was active in Chicago's Second City, learning and performing improvisational comedy as a member of the six-person sketch comedy troupe "White Noise," which originated in 1987. The group produced and performed comedic plays that often featured bizarre humor or black comedy. O'Heir appeared in White Noise's production of The Book of Blanche, about a woman who slips through a television screen and finds herself in a fantasy world influenced by several television show genres starting in 1989. O'Heir appeared in the Chicago premiere of the Tom Griffin play The Boys Next Door, which was performed at the Edgewater Theatre Center in July 1989. Norman Bulansky, a young middle-aged physically handicapped man who works at a doughnut store, was played by O'Heir.

O'Heir appeared in White Noise's Gang, Patrick Cannon's one-act black comedy play, beginning in 1990. The performance was held at Stage Left and Strawdog Theatres in Chicago, where it earned a following. Frank Bubman, the janitor of a genetics laboratory whose job is to destroy the failed experiments that have been portrayed by puppets, was played by O'Heir. Frank uses the findings to produce private shows reminiscent of early television shows. "The grotesquely ursine Jim O'Heir's portrayal of Frank adds a new dimension to the role of the enfant tragic," Mary Shen Barnidge of the Chicago Reader said of his appearance. The Chicago Sun-Times' Ernest Tucker characterized O'Heir's appearance as "unfortable" and "good," and he said he "held together this amusing yet sick apocalyptic fantasy." In the fall of 1991, Stumpy's Gang came to an end. O'Heir appeared in Ad-Nauseam, a play about a pair of writers who create an ad campaign based on a character named Rim Shot, played by O'Heir. Rim Shot, dressed as a gladiator costume, was made of bristle sticks and toilet detritus.

In Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, O'Heir played the prisoner Dale Harding. O'Heir stood out among the show's cast members, according to backstage writer Terri Roberts.

In 1996 baseball comedies Ed Ed and 1998 fantasy television film Harvey, O'Heir appeared in Ed, a baseball comeback film, and in 1998 fantasy television film Harvey. He appeared in the 2007 family drama film Welcome to Paradise!!! In the 2016 film Range 15, O'Heir played Hathaway.

Variety revealed that O'Heir was in the cast of the Chris Blake quarantine comedy Distancing Socially in 2020. The film was shot during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, using remote technologies and the iPhone 11. In October 2021, Cinedigm acquired and released the film.

Since the 1990s and 2000s, O'Heir has appeared in numerous television shows, including 3rd Rock from the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, Just Shoot Me, Star Trek: Zeack and Cody, and ER. O'Heir appeared in regular roles in the Comedy Central series Strip Mall as Harvey Krudup, the unattractive husband of protagonist Tammi Tyler, played by Julie Brown. The character is the owner of the Starbrite Cleaners business, and Tammi marries him under the false assumption that he is wealthy. Tammi makes several attempts to have Harvey killed after finding that he is not wealthy.

In November 2003, he appeared on "The One With the Birth Mother," the tenth season of Friends, where he was the manager of an adoption company. He appeared in "Loose Lips," a Boston legal drama in which he played a man barred from being a department store Santa Claus because he is a cross dresser.

O'Heir's first appearance on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation began in 2009 as a regular supporting cast member. He auditioned for Ron Swanson's role before being portrayed as Jerry Gergich, a clumsy employee of a local government parks department who is often mocked by his co-workers who also gave him one of the four names Jerry, Larry, Terry, and Garry. Despite being seen in the series since the first episode, the character began to be more fully developed and play bigger roles in the episodes during the second season. Jerry pretends to have been mugged in order to prevent being made fun of for an accident, and O'Heir's comedic performance received rave reviews.

O'Heir appeared on NBC's comedy-drama series Parenthood as a bar owner in 2011. He appeared on Good Luck Charlie as a couch surgeon and the owner of a couch store, and later in the year as Jack, Santa's right-hand man. He appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as real-life Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who had recently been embroiled in a crack-smuggling controversy. In two episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he appeared as Sheriff Reynolds. In 2016, he played "Aiden" on Harvey Beaks' biography, the grandfather of the titular character.

In 2017, O'Heir received a daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for The Bold and the Beautiful.

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