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 (2009â€"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).Pine was born at
Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California. His father, Robert
Pine, is an actor who co-starred on CHiPs as Sergeant Joseph Getraer,
and his mother, Gwynne Gilford, is a former actress who became a
practicing psychotherapist. He has an older sister, Katie. 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.Pine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
in 2002 with a B.A. in English. When he got to Berkeley, Pine was
initially scared of looking for a place to fit in and had a hard time
making friends. As he was not interested in joining a fraternity, he
got into theater. As a member of the UC Berkeley Theater Department,
Pine performed in a Caryl Churchill play in La Val's Pizza's
Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes and Shakespeare at
Zellerbach Hall.
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 (2009â€"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).Pine was born at
Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California. His father, Robert
Pine, is an actor who co-starred on CHiPs as Sergeant Joseph Getraer,
and his mother, Gwynne Gilford, is a former actress who became a
practicing psychotherapist. He has an older sister, Katie. 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.Pine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
in 2002 with a B.A. in English. When he got to Berkeley, Pine was
initially scared of looking for a place to fit in and had a hard time
making friends. As he was not interested in joining a fraternity, he
got into theater. As a member of the UC Berkeley Theater Department,
Pine performed in a Caryl Churchill play in La Val's Pizza's
Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes and Shakespeare at
Zellerbach Hall.
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