Biography
- 2002
Joining the Family Business
The son of CHiPs star Robert Pine and actress Gwynne Gilford, Pine studies acting at the University of Leeds in England and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater after earning a degree in English from U.C. Berkley in 2002. In 2003, he lands bit parts on ER and CSI: Miami.
- 2004
Royal Pain
Pine makes a royal impression on tweens in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Playing a rival royal who falls for Anne Hathaway's Princess Mia, Pine jokes to the New York Daily News, "The only attention I got from Princess Diaries was a 3-year-old in an airport lounge calling me Prince Nicholas."
- 2006
Getting Lucky
Pine plays an unlucky, yet lovable loser opposite Lindsay Lohan in Just My Luck. "It's a big thing, obviously, for me to be starring with someone at her level," he says of Lohan at the time. "She's so natural in front of the camera…and that made my job ten times easier."
- 2007
Paging Captain Kirk
Pine is recruited to play Starfleet commander Captain James T. Kirk for JJ Abrams' much-hyped Star Trek reboot, rounding out the cast with Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Eric Bana. "There's tremendous responsibility," Pine tells Men's Health of portraying the iconic TV character made famous by William Shatner. "There's tremendous pressure. But all those just clarify your vision."
- 2009
Star on the Rise
Star Trek opens to huge numbers at the box office, earning $72.5 million in its opening weekend. "He is our star," director J.J. Abrams tells the Los Angeles Times, "and it was an intense challenge to take on a role that was so defined for so long by [William] Shatner."
Man About Starlets
Pine makes hookup headlines when The Hills hottie Audrina Patridge is spotted leaving his L.A. apartment. Although the two are later photographed together at a Hollywood bar, they remain silent on their reported relationship – which fizzles as Patridge reunites with an ex the following month. By the end of the year, Pine briefly dates Attack of the Show! host Olivia Munn.
- 2010
Pining For More
Pine opens up to Details about turning 30, and making his way in Hollywood as a serious leading man. "Sometimes I think I need to get crazy," he tells the mag. "Go to Vegas. Do some drugs. Get some hookers. Gamble it all away. And it never happens. I usually just end up at home on my couch – reading." But whatever the future holds, don't expect it to include a girlfriend. "I'm single and very happy about it," Pine says. "I think I'll be more like...the George Clooney."
All Aboard!
Pine stars opposite Denzel Washington in Unstoppable, about a pair of conductors racing to stop a runaway train. "To work with two of my idols was just a dream come true," he tells MTV of working alongside Washington and director Tony Scott. "It's action-packed, and it's got some really interesting, complex characters to kind of anchor the whole thing". The film opens at No. 2, taking in $23.5 million.
- 2012
War Zone
Pine stars opposite Tom Hardy in the action rom-com This Means War, which pits the hunks against each other for the affections of Reese Witherspoon. "You get to play with guns and have someone teach you how to do all the fun tricks, and take out a bunch of bad guys, and make it look real. It's a lot of fun," he tells MSN Movies of portraying a spy.
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Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Yearbook Library; Disney; Twentieth Century FOX; Fay Alexandre/Pixplanete/Globe; Paramount Pictures; Pacific Coast News; Courtesy Details; Robert Zuckerman/Twentieth Century FOX; Twentieth Century FOX
- Name
- Chris Pine
- Real Name
- Christopher Whitelaw Pine
- Date of Birth
- August 26, 1980
- Birth Place
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Relationships
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Dominique Piek, ex-girlfriend (2012 to 2013)
Olivia Munn, ex-girlfriend (2009 to Jan. 2010)
Audrina Patridge (dated briefly in 2009)
Beau Garrett, ex-girlfriend (2008)
