Most recently, Mr. Offerman was cast as President Chester A. Arthur in Netflix’s upcoming historical drama “Death by Lightning” and as a central character in Apple TV’s forthcoming David E. Kelly adaptation of the best-selling novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” alongside Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. All of which is to suggest that, at 55, he’s finally earned the serious actor status that he’s been pursuing since he drove his high school girlfriend to a dance audition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign more than 30 years ago, and discovered something called theater school.