Chris Pine American Actor Known for Wonder Woman

Early life

Christopher Whitelaw Pine was born on 26 August 1980 in Los Angeles. He went to Oakwood School in the city, then studied at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He spent a year as an exchange student at the University of Leeds in England. At Berkeley he got involved in theatre through the university's theatre department, and after graduating he worked as an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Career

Pine's screen work began in 2003 with a guest part on ER and episodes of The Guardian and CSI: Miami. In 2004 he played Nicholas Devereaux, the love interest of Anne Hathaway's character, in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. He followed it with the romantic comedy Just My Luck (2006), opposite Lindsay Lohan, and the same year appeared in the action film Smokin' Aces. On stage he performed the one-man play The Atheist in New York in late 2006 and starred in the Los Angeles production of Fat Pig in 2007. In 2008 he played the vintner Bo Barrett in Bottle Shock.

In 2007 he turned down a role in a film adaptation of White Jazz to accept the part of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot, which came out in May 2009. He also appeared in the Los Angeles production of Farragut North that summer, and in 2010 he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's lead performance award for The Lieutenant of Inishmore. In Unstoppable (2010) he played a young train conductor working with Denzel Washington's character to stop a runaway freight train.

Pine continued to alternate studio films and smaller projects. He starred in This Means War (2012) with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy, voiced Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians (2012) and took part in the family drama People Like Us (2012). He returned as Kirk in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016). In 2014 he played Jack Ryan in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, the fourth actor to take the role on screen, and also appeared as Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods. He played the Coast Guard officer Bernard C. Webber in The Finest Hours (2016) and one of two brothers in the crime drama Hell or High Water, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.

His voice work extended to television: in July 2016 he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for the animated series SuperMansion. That year he also appeared on Barbra Streisand's album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, performing a duet medley with her.

From 2017 he played Steve Trevor opposite Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman, a role he repeated in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). He was also executive producer and a lead actor in the TNT series I Am the Night, which began airing in January 2019. In 2018 he played Dr. Alexander Murry in A Wrinkle in Time, starred as Robert the Bruce in the Netflix film Outlaw King and gave the voice of a version of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In 2022 he appeared in Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling, and he acted and served as executive producer on The Contractor and on the espionage thriller All the Old Knives. He played Edgin Darvis in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, released in March 2023, and voiced the antagonist King Magnifico in the Disney animated film Wish.

Pine made his directorial debut with Poolman, which he also wrote and starred in, and which was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022 before its 2023 release. He acted for the first time in an Italian-language role in The Kidnapping of Arabella, shown in the Orizzonti section of the 2025 Venice Film Festival. His credits on record number 43 and run from 2002 to Carousel in 2026.

Pine took part in a 2011 documentary, The Captains, in which William Shatner, who first played Captain Kirk, interviewed him about taking on the role. In May 2017 he hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2020 he appeared as Westley in a charity reading of The Princess Bride made for Quibi, which raised money for World Central Kitchen.