American actor (born 1966), known for The Office, who played a younger and more dangerous Harcourt Fenton Mudd in Discovery and directed and starred in the Short Trek The Escape Artist.
Rainn Wilson is an American actor best known as Dwight Schrute in the American version of The Office.
In the first season of Discovery he takes over the role of the swindler Harry Mudd, created by Roger C. Carmel in the original series. Mudd first appears as a prisoner of the Klingons in Choose Your Pain, where he is left behind by Lorca, and takes his revenge in Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad by trapping the ship in a time loop.
Wilson returned for the 2019 Short Trek The Escape Artist, which he also directed, in which Mudd tries to talk his way out of the hands of a bounty hunter.