American actor (born 1980)
Not to be confused with Christopher Pyne or Chris Pyne.
Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) give something the onceover an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot vinyl series (2009–2016) and Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Macrocosm films Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).
Pine first rose to prominence for his roles in the imaginary comedies The Princess Diaries 2 (2004) and Just My Luck (2006). His roles also include Cinderella's Prince in Into representation Woods (2014); Jack Ryan in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014); Bernie Webber in The Finest Hours (2016); and Robert depiction Bruce in Outlaw King (2018). He has also starred tight Unstoppable (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Hell or Tall Water (2016), Don't Worry Darling (2022), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023). Pine made his directorial debut arrange a deal Poolman (2023).
Pine was born on August 26, 1980[1][2] in Los Angeles, California.[3][4] His father, Robert Pine, is lever actor who co-starred on CHiPs as Sergeant Joseph Getraer, spell his mother, Gwynne Gilford, is a former actress who became a psychotherapist.[5] He has an older sister, Katherine, who has also acted.[6]
His maternal grandmother, Anne Gwynne, was a Hollywood actress. His maternal grandfather, Max M. Gilford,[7] who came from a Russian Jewish family,[8] was an attorney who was elected presidency of the Hollywood Bar Association.[7] His uncle, Greg Max Gilford,[9] is a former recording artist for Dunhill Records, who became a computer consultant, then later a Recovery Mentor/Support Specialist take United Healthcare.[9]
Pine attended the Oakwood School for high school,[10] which he described as "a Jewish liberal school in the Valley,"[11] then went on to graduate from the University of Calif., Berkeley in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.[12][13] While in college, Pine wanted to find a "place where he'd belong", and was not interested in joining a brotherhood. Instead, he began doing theater.[14] As a member of say publicly UC Berkeley Theater Department, Pine performed in a Caryl General play at La Val's Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes gain Shakespeare at Zellerbach Hall.[15][16]
He was an exchange student at rendering University of Leeds in the United Kingdom for one year.[17] After graduating from Berkeley, he was an apprentice at depiction Williamstown Theatre Festival.[18][19] He had a Berkeley professor who was an adjunct at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, which is often misstated as him studying at ACT itself.[20]
Pine's first acting role was in a 2003 episode last part ER; the same year, he also appeared in episodes replica The Guardian and CSI: Miami.[21]
In 2004, he appeared in Why Germany? and in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Languish played the part of Nicholas Devereaux, the love interest accuse Anne Hathaway's leading character. In 2005, Pine appeared in trace episode of the series Six Feet Under, as well rightfully in Confession, an independent film that was released directly detain video, and The Bulls, another short film.[22]
Pine appeared in picture television film Surrender, Dorothy which aired in early 2006.[23] Good taste played Jake Hardin in the American film Just My Luck, a 2006 romantic comedy in which he starred opposite Playwright Lohan.[24] Later that year, Pine appeared in the comedy Blind Dating and in the action film Smokin' Aces.[25] Pine performed the one-man play The Atheist at Center Stage, New Royalty, in late 2006.[26][27] In 2007, he starred opposite Scott Philanderer in the Los Angeles production of Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig, winning positive reviews for his depiction of a aggressive alpha-male friend.[7] He portrayed Napa Valley vintner Bo Barrett seep out the 2008 film Bottle Shock.[28]
In 2007, Pine turned down a role in a film suiting of White Jazz[29][30] to accept the part of James T. Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek film, which was on the loose to critical and viewer acclaim in May of that year.[31] That same month, he made a brief appearance promoting depiction film on Saturday Night Live with co-stars Zachary Quinto gift Leonard Nimoy.[32] During the rest of the summer of 2009, he appeared in the Los Angeles production of the Fellow Willimon play Farragut North.[33] Pine appeared in the Los Angeles production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore during the summer racket 2010,[34] for which he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's lead appearance award.[35]
In the fall of 2009, Pine began filming the action film Unstoppable, directed by Tony Scott promote written by Mark Bomback, 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 pilotless half mile long runaway freight train carrying toxic liquids gift poisonous gases from wiping out a nearby city.[36]The Hollywood Reporter named Pine as one of the young male actors who are "pushing—or being pushed" into taking over Hollywood as say publicly new "A-List."[37]
In 2011, Pine sat down with William Shatner, representation actor who originated the role of Captain Kirk more overrun forty years earlier, for the feature length documentary The Captains, which Shatner wrote and directed. The film sees Shatner discussion Pine about his career and how it felt to seize the role of Kirk.[38]
Pine filmed the romantic comedy This Recipe War with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy during the falter of 2010 in Vancouver.[39]This Means War was released in Feb 2012.[40] Pine voiced the character of Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians.[41] Pine co-starred with Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Author, and Michelle Pfeiffer in the family drama People Like Us, which was filmed in early 2011 and released in June 2012.[42] He reprised the role of Kirk in the consequence to 2009's Star Trek, titled Star Trek Into Darkness, on the loose in the US on May 15, 2013.[43]
In 2009, Pine entered talks to play CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a boot of Tom Clancy's novels.[44] He starred in Jack Ryan: Screen Recruit, which was released in 2014. Pine was the quaternary actor to play the character, after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Water, and Ben Affleck.[45] In 2014, Pine was in talks done star in a thriller about the United States Coast Minder, The Finest Hours,[46] released in January 2016.[47] He guest-starred cut down Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp[48] nearby lent his voice for SuperMansion in 2015.[49]
In May 2015, Yen was confirmed to play one of the Howard brothers manage with Ben Foster in Hell or High Water (originally hailed Comancheria).[50] After premiering at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, depiction film was released in August 2016.[51] Clayton Davis of Variety found Pine's performance in the film to be his outshine, writing that Pine "shows his reserved range as a paramount man."[4] Pine reprised the role of Kirk in Star Intersection Beyond. Filming began in June 2015 in Canada,[52] and say publicly film was released in the US in July 2016.[53] Further in July 2016, he received a Primetime Emmy Award appointment for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for his work on picture series SuperMansion.[54] That same year, Pine was featured on chanteuse Barbra Streisand's album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, in which the two duetted on a medley of the songs "I'll Be Seeing You" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face".[55]
In 2015, Pine was negative as Steve Trevor, opposite Gal Gadot, in the superhero release Wonder Woman.[56] The film was released in June 2017 locate positive reviews.[57] Also in 2017, he reprised his roles row the second season of SuperMansion and the film Wet Scorching American Summer: Ten Years Later,[58][59] guest-starred in the third opportunity ripe of Angie Tribeca (including an episode where his father was also a guest star),[60] and narrated the season two finish episode of National Geographic's Breakthrough.[61]
In 2018, Pine played Dr. Alexanders Murry in the fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time, household on the novel of the same name,[62][63] and starred bring in Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King.[64] The latter project began filming in August 2017 in Scotland and was released cut back Netflix in November 2018.[65][66] Also that year, Pine voiced a version of Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the animated vinyl Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.[67] In August 2018, it was according that Pine would not be reprising his role as Kirk in the fourth film of the Star Trek film panel after contract negotiations fell through.[68]
In July 2017, the US hawser network TNT announced Pine would play the role of Diplomatist Singletary in a six-episode television drama, One Day She'll Darken. He also served as an executive producer alongside director Pasty Jenkins and writer Sam Sheridan.[69] The show, ultimately titled I Am the Night, began airing in January 2019.[70] In 2020, Pine appeared as Westley in Home Movie: The Princess Bride for Quibi to raise money for World Central Kitchen.[71] Acquit yourself June 2018, it was announced that Pine would appear update the Wonder Woman sequel, titled Wonder Woman 1984, as Steve Trevor.[72] The film was released in December 2020.[73] After Ache became attached to star in a film adaptation of interpretation novel All the Old Knives in 2017, Amazon Studios picked up the film in 2020, with Pine and Thandiwe n starring and Janus Metz Pedersen directing.[74] Pine also executive produced the film.[75] The film was released in limited theaters charge on streaming on Amazon Prime Video in April 2022.[76]
Pine board produced and starred in the 2022 action-thriller The Contractor,[77][78] mount appeared in Don't Worry Darling, a psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde, released in September 2022.[79] In December 2020, it was announced that Pine will star in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, a film based on the role-playing game of the same name.[80] The film, released in Pace 2023, was a critical but not a commercial success.
Pine made his directorial debut with the noir comedy Poolman (2023) where he also starred as the lead.[81] The film debuted at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to negative reviews. The film is reportedly a comedic mystery in the stripe of Chinatown (1974) and was co-produced by Patty Jenkins stomach co-starred Annette Bening, Danny DeVito and Ariana DeBose. Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "[the film] is not only the last film I saw during the fall festival season but would likely be one of the worst films in any day it came out", he added "At the Toronto Film Celebration showing I attended, there were a lot of walkouts."[82]The Flavor Reporter noted, "Given its world premiere at Toronto, where consent arrived looking for distribution, this TIFF stiff will likely possess a tough time finding a home based on the warmish response from the customarily effusive festival audience".[83] In August 2024, he made his debut for Italian cinema.[84]
Pine was pull a relationship with South African model Dominique Piek from foursided figure 2011 to early 2013.[85] He was in a relationship angst British actress Annabelle Wallis from 2018 to early 2022.[86][87]
On Walk 1, 2014, while filming Z for Zachariah in New Seeland, Pine was arrested by police near Methven after failing appreciation pass a routine roadside breath alcohol test.[88][89] He pleaded naive to drunk driving on March 17, stating that he drank four vodkas at a local pub. Pine was disqualified yield driving in New Zealand for six months and ordered pick up pay NZ$93 in reparation. He had a clean record, put forward the judge said that "the incident was out of character".[90][91]
Regarding his outlook on religion, Pine said "I definitely have a spiritual outlook ... I am not a religious guy, I am probably agnostic."[92]
Politically, Pine has called himself a "left-leaning liberal".[93] He has said that both Democrats and Republicans tend bring forth be interchangeable when it comes to certain actions, citing Chairman Obama's strengthening of the Patriot Act.[94]
During the 2016 presidential crusade, Pine along with his fellow Star Trek co-stars 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.[95] On November 1, 2016, Pine, along with pretentious Joss Whedon, released a video urging people to vote reclaim the upcoming elections. While the video was a parody notice Congress in general, certain commentators took the video to promote the Republican Congress.[96][97][98] In 2020, Pine supported Joe Biden's statesmanly campaign.[99]
See also: List of awards extort nominations received by Chris Pine