46 Facts About Chris Pine

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Chris Pine's roles include Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods ; Jack Ryan in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit ; Bernie Webber in The Finest Hours ; Dr Alexander Murry in A Wrinkle in Time ; and Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King.

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Chris Pine voiced Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians and will voice King Magnifico in Wish.

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Chris Pine was born on August 26,1980 in Los Angeles, California.

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Chris Pine's 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.

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Chris Pine has an older sister, Katherine, who has acted.

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Chris Pine's maternal grandmother, Anne Gwynne, was a Hollywood actress.

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Chris Pine's maternal grandfather, Max M Gilford, who came from a Russian Jewish family, was an attorney who was elected president of the Hollywood Bar Association.

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Chris Pine attended the Oakwood School for high school, which he described as "a Jewish liberal school in the Valley," then went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

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Chris Pine was an exchange student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom for one year.

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Chris Pine's first acting role was in a 2003 episode of ER; the same year, he appeared in episodes of The Guardian and CSI: Miami.

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Chris Pine played the part of Nicholas Devereaux, the love interest of Anne Hathaway's leading character.

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In 2005, Chris Pine appeared in an episode of the series Six Feet Under, as well as in Confession, an independent film that was released directly to video, and The Bulls, another short film.

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Chris Pine appeared in the television Surrender, Dorothy which aired in early 2006.

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Chris Pine played Jake Hardin in the American film Just My Luck, a romantic comedy in which he starred opposite Lindsay Lohan.

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Later that year, Chris Pine appeared in the comedy Blind Dating, and in the action film Smokin' Aces.

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Chris Pine did the one-man play The Atheist, at Center Stage, New York, in late 2006.

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Chris Pine portrayed real-life Napa Valley vintner Bo Barrett in the 2008 film Bottle Shock.

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In 2007, Pine turned down a role in a film adaptation of White Jazz, to accept the part of James T Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek film, which was released to critical and viewer acclaim in May of that year.

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Chris Pine appeared in the Los Angeles production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore during the summer of 2010, for which he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's lead appearance award.

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In 2011, Chris Pine sat down with the actor who originated the role of Captain Kirk more than forty years earlier, William Shatner, for the feature length documentary The Captains, which Shatner wrote and directed.

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Chris Pine filmed the romantic comedy This Means War, with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy, during the fall of 2010, in Vancouver.

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Chris Pine voiced the character of Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians.

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Chris Pine co-starred with Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Michelle Pfeiffer in the family drama People Like Us, which was filmed in early 2011 and released in June 2012.

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Chris Pine reprised the role of Captain Kirk in the sequel to 2009's Star Trek, titled Star Trek Into Darkness, released in the US on May 15,2013.

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In 2009, Chris Pine entered talks to play CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a reboot of Tom Clancy's novels.

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Chris Pine starred in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which was released in 2014.

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Chris Pine was the fourth actor to play the character, after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck.

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In 2014, Chris Pine was in talks to star in a thriller about the United States Coast Guard, The Finest Hours, released in January 2016.

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Chris Pine guest-starred in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and lent his voice for SuperMansion in 2015.

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In May 2015, Chris Pine was confirmed to play one of the Howard brothers, along with Ben Foster, in Hell or High Water.

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That same year, Chris Pine was featured on singer 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".

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In 2015, Chris Pine was cast as Steve Trevor, opposite Gal Gadot, in the superhero film Wonder Woman.

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In 2018, Chris Pine played Dr Alexander Murry in the fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time, based on the novel of the same name, and starred as Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King.

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Chris Pine served as an executive producer alongside director Patty Jenkins and writer Sam Sheridan.

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In 2020, Chris Pine appeared as Westley in Home Movie: The Princess Bride for Quibi to raise money for World Central Kitchen.

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On June 13,2018, Patty Jenkins announced that Chris Pine would appear in the Wonder Woman sequel, titled Wonder Woman 1984, as Steve Trevor.

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Chris Pine executive produced and starred in the 2022 action-thriller The Contractor, and appeared in Don't Worry Darling, a psychological thriller film directed by Olivia Wilde, released in September 2022.

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In September 2017, it was announced that Pine was slated to star as Robert F Kennedy in a Hulu limited series based on the Larry Tye biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.

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Chris Pine will serve as an executive producer for the series.

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In February 2022, it was announced that Chris Pine will make his directorial debut with Poolman and will play the lead.

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Chris Pine was in a relationship with South African model Dominique Piek from late 2011 to early 2013.

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Chris Pine was in a relationship with British actress Annabelle Wallis from 2018 to early 2022.

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On March 1,2014, while filming Z for Zachariah in New Zealand, Chris Pine was arrested by police near Methven after failing to pass a routine roadside breath alcohol test.

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Chris Pine was disqualified from driving in New Zealand for six months and ordered to pay NZ$93 in reparation.

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Chris Pine had a clean record, and the judge said that "the incident was out of character".

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Chris Pine 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.