Chris Pine

Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for playing James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–), Will Colson in Unstoppable (2010), Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods (2014), Toby Howard in Hell or High Water (2016) and Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2017). 2Early life Pine was born in Los Angeles. His father, Robert Pine, is an actor who co-starred on CHiPs as Sergeant Joseph Getraer, and his mother, Gwynne Gilford, is a former actress who became a practicing psychotherapist. He has an older sister, Katie. His maternal grandmother, Anne Gwynne (née Marguerite Gwynne Trice), was a Hollywood actress, and his maternal grandfather, Max M. Gilford (born Max Goldfarb), was an attorney who was elected president of the Hollywood Bar Association. Pine's maternal grandfather was from a Russian Jewish family. Pine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a B.A. in English. At Berkeley, Pine was a member of the UC Berkeley Theater Department where he performed in a Carol Churchill play in La Val's Pizza's Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes and Shakespeare at Zellerbach Hall. He was an exchange student at the University of Leeds in England for one yea