Chris Pine
Chris Pine was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on August 26th, 1980 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 43, Chris Pine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor.
Pine made his feature film debut as Lord Devereaux in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), and is known for playing James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–2016), Will Colson in Unstoppable (2010), Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods (2014), Jack Ryan in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Toby Howard in Hell or High Water (2016), Bernie Webber in The Finest Hours (2016), Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2017), Dr. Alexander Murry in A Wrinkle in Time (2018), and Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King (2018).
Early life
Chris Pine was born on August 26, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Robert Pine, is an actor who co-starred on CHiPs as Sergeant Joseph Getraer, while his mother, Gwynne Gilford, is a former actress who became a psychotherapist. He has an older sister, Katherine, who has also acted. His maternal grandmother, Anne Gwynne, was a Hollywood actress. His maternal grandfather, Max M. Gilford, who came from a Russian Jewish family, was an attorney who was elected president of the Hollywood Bar Association. His uncle, Greg Max Gilford, is a former recording artist for Dunhill Records, who became a computer consultant, then later a Recovery Mentor/Support Specialist for United Healthcare.
Pine attended the Oakwood School for high school, then went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. While in college, Pine wanted to find a "place where he'd belong", and was not interested in joining a fraternity. Instead, he began doing theater. As a member of the UC Berkeley Theater Department, Pine performed in a Caryl Churchill play at La Val's Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes and Shakespeare at Zellerbach Hall.
He was an exchange student at the University of Leeds in England for one year. After graduating from Berkeley, he attended the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and he studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He was in a professional honors business fraternity called Beta Alpha Psi while at UC Berkeley.
Personal life
Chris Pine has stated, "I definitely have a spiritual outlook... I am not a religious guy, I am probably agnostic."
Pine was in a relationship with British actress Annabelle Wallis from 2018 to early 2022. He was in a relationship with South African model Dominique Piek from late 2011 to early 2013.
On March 1, 2014, while filming Z for Zachariah in New Zealand, Pine was arrested by police near Methven after failing to pass a routine roadside breath alcohol test. He pleaded guilty to drunk driving on March 17, stating that he drank four vodkas at a local pub. Pine was disqualified from driving in New Zealand for six months and ordered to pay NZ$93 in reparation. He had a clean record, and the judge said that "the incident was out of character".
Politically, Pine has called himself a "left-leaning liberal". He has stated that both Democrats and Republicans tend to be interchangeable when it comes to certain actions, citing President Obama's strengthening of the controversial Patriot Act.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Pine along with fellow Star Trek coworkers J. J. Abrams, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, George Takei, Justin Lin, Bryan Fuller, and Adam Nimoy, endorsed a movement called Trek Against Trump. The movement endorsed Hillary Clinton. On November 1, 2016, Pine, along with director Joss Whedon, released a video urging people to vote in the upcoming elections. While the video was a parody of Congress in general, certain commentators took the video to represent the Republican Congress. In 2020, Pine supported Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
Career
Pine's first acting appearance was in a 2003 episode of ER; the same year, he appeared in episodes of The Guardian and CSI: Miami.
He appeared in Why Germany?, a short film, and in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement in 2004. Pine played Nicholas Devereaux, Anne Hathaway's leading lady. Pine appeared in an episode of Six Feet Under, as well as in Confession, an independent film that was not made directly to video, and The Bulls, another short film.
Pine appeared in the television show Surrender, Dorothy, which premiered in early 2006. Jake Hardin appeared in the American film Just My Luck, a romantic drama in which he starred opposite Lindsay Lohan. On May 12, 2006, the film was released. Pine appeared in the comedy Blind Dating and in the action film Smokin' Aces later this year. In late 2006, Pine appeared in The Atheist, a one-man play at Center Stage, New York. In 2007, he appeared in the Los Angeles production of Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig, receiving raves for his portrayal of a charismatic, alpha-male friend. In the 2008 film Bottle Shock, he portrayed true-life Napa Valley vintner Bo Barrett.
Pine declined to appear in a White Jazz film adaptation in 2007 to take the role of James T. Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek film, which was released to critical and viewer acclaim in May. On Saturday Night Live, he made a brief appearance promoting the film with co-stars Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. He appeared in the Beau Willimon play Farragut North throughout the summer of 2009. Pine appeared in The Lieutenant of Inishmore's Los Angeles production during the summer of 2010, for which he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's top appearance award.
Pine began filming Unstoppable, directed by Tony Scott and written by Mark Bomback in September 2010, which was released in November 2010. In the film, he played a young train conductor who helped a veteran railroad engineer (Denzel Washington) stop an unmanned, half-mile long freight train carrying hazardous liquids and deadly gases from wiping out a nearby city. Pine was one of the young male actors who is "pushing" or being coerced" into taking over Hollywood as the new "A-List" for the new "A-List."
Pine sat down with William Shatner, who appeared in Captain Kirk more than forty years ago on the film The Captains, which Shatner wrote and directed, in 2011. Shatner speaks with Pine about his work and how it felt to play Kirk in the 2009 film. The pair's interview includes a scene where the two arm wrestles; photos of this incident "went viral" leading to internet headlines such as "Kirk vs. Kirk" and others.
In Vancouver's fall of 2010, Pine filmed The Means War, starring Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy. In February 2012, This Means War was first announced. In Rise of the Guardians, Pine portrayed Jack Frost. Pine co-starred Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Michelle Pfeiffer in the family drama People Like Us, which was shot in early 2011 and released in June 2012. In the sequel to 2009's Star Trek Into Darkness, he reprised Captain Kirk's role in the sequel to 2009's Star Trek Into Darkness, which was released in the United States on May 15, 2013.
In 2009, Pine began to talk to CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a Tom Clancy's book reimagining. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which was released in 2014, was one of his starring roles. After Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck, Pine was the fourth actor to play the character. Pine was in talks to act in The Finest Hours, a drama about the United States Coast Guard, which was released in January 2016. He appeared in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp, and lent his voice to SuperMansion in 2015.
Pine was confirmed in May 2015 to appear alongside Ben Foster in Hell or High Water (originally called Comancheria). The film was released in August 2016, after premiering at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Pine's performance in the film was his best, according to Clayton Davis of Variety, who wrote that Pine "shows his reserved presence as a leading man." In Star Trek Beyond, Pine reprised Captain Kirk's role. Filming in Canada began in June 2015 and was released in the United States on July 22, 2016. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for his role on the series SuperMansion in July 2016. Pine was on Barbra Streisand's album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, in which the two characters were married on a medley of the songs "I'll Be Seeing You" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" during the same year.
Pine appeared in the superhero film Wonder Woman as Steve Trevor, opposite Gal Gadot. The film was released in June 2017 to rave reviews. He reprised his roles in the second season of SuperMansion and the film Wet Hot American Summer, Ten Years Later, and narrated the season two finale episode of National Geographic's Breakthrough.
Pine appeared in Outlaw King, based on the novel of the same name, and starred Dr. Alexander Murry. On August 21, 2017, in Scotland, the second project was announced on Netflix on November 9, 2018. In the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Man, Pine performed a version of Peter Parker / Spider-Man. Pine would not be reprising his role as Captain Kirk in the fourth film in the Star Trek film series after labor talks fell through, according to the release.
Pine will appear in One Day She'll Darken, a US cable television drama that premiered in July 2017. Patty Jenkins and writer Sam Sheridan were both executive producers alongside writer Patty Jenkins and writer Sam Sheridan. In January 2019, the program, later called I Am the Night, first aired.
Pine appeared in Home Movie: The Princess Bride for Quibi in 2020, raising funds for World Central Kitchen. Pine will be seen as Steve Trevor in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman 1984, which was published on June 13, 2018. In December 2020, the film was released.
Pine and Thandiwe Newton starred in a film version of the novel All the Old Knives in 2017, and Janus Metz Pedersen directed. The film was also produced by Pine. On April 8, 2022, the film was released in limited theaters and on Amazon Prime Video.
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Don't Worry Darling, a psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde, was released in September 2022.
Pine was supposed to appear in a Hulu limited series based on Larry Tye's biography Robert F. Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon in September 2017. He will also act as an executive producer for the series. Pine was supposed to play Walter Cronkite in Newsflash, a drama film about how media announced John F. Kennedy's assassination in August 2019.
Pine will appear in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, a film based on the role-playing game of the same name in December 2020. Pine will make his directorial debut with Poolman in February 2022 and will also play the lead.