Chris Pine
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.
| This article is written from the Real World point of view |
 |
 | Warning! This page contains information regarding the 2009 film, Star Trek, and thus may contain spoilers. |
Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born 26 August 1980; age 28), known simply as Chris Pine, is the actor who will portray James T. Kirk in the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek. Hailing from Los Angeles, California, he is the son of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise guest star Robert Pine.
Pine graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English. He began his screen acting career with a role in a 2003 episode of ER (with Brad Blaisdell, Michelle Bonilla, and Michael Buchman Silver, which was followed by guest spots on The Guardian (with Erich Anderson, Tracy Middendorf, and Christopher Neiman) and CSI: Miami (with Wade Williams).
He made his film debut as the young male lead in the 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, co-starring John Rhys-Davies as Pine's uncle. Pine then had the starring role in the independent thriller Confession, opposite his father as well as Bruce Davison and Kate Vernon. Pine was then cast in the male lead opposite Lindsay Lohan in the romantic comedy film Just My Luck.
After a guest spot on Six Feet Under with Joanna Cassidy, James Cromwell, Ann Cusack, J.G. Hertzler, and Anne Ramsay, Pine played the lead role in the comedy film Blind Dating. Afterwards, Pine appeared in the action film Smokin' Aces, in which he and Star Trek: Enterprise guest actor Maury Sterling played two of the Tremor brothers, a trio of insane hillbilly mercenaries bent on accomplishing the title goal. Joseph Ruskin also made an appearance in this film.
More recently, Pine starred in a thriller called Carriers. He also has the lead role in the drama film Bottle Shock, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008 and is currently slated for a limited US release in August 2008. He next starred in the upcoming drama film Small Town Saturday Night. He is currently set to appear in Killing Pablo, a film detailing the assassination of Colombian gangster Pablo Escobar, for which he will re-team with Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan.
In addition, Pine worked on the upcoming computer-animated feature Quantum Quest, in which he voices the protagonist, a photon named Dave. The film also features the voice of the first actor to play James T. Kirk, William Shatner, making Quantum Quest the first and thus far only project featuring performances from both Kirk actors. Other voices heard in the film will include Jason Alexander, Robert Picardo, and Brent Spiner. [1][2]
When it was originally announced that Pine was in negotiations to play Kirk in Star Trek, he was also in talks to star with George Clooney in Joe Carnahan's 2009 thriller White Jazz. [3] It was Carnahan who first broke the news that Pine had decided to do Star Trek instead of White Jazz. [4] Trekmovie.com soon after confirmed that Pine had signed on to play Kirk. [5]
[edit] External links
- Chris Pine at Wikipedia
- Chris Pine at the Internet Movie Database
- Chris Pine Film Festival at UGO determines if Pine is Kirk-worthy.
