Chris attended a High School named Oakwood School in San Fernando Valley. He received his bachelor degree at the University of California, where he majored in English. Also, he studied acting at the American Controversy Theater in San Francisco.
Pine started off with a very successful acting career. He has won many guest roles in television shows and made his first feature debut with Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement. He had other roles in film and television after Princess Diaries, but he became a star when he was cast as Kirk in Star Trek, in 2009.
He played Jake Harden in one of Americas hit movies, Just My Luck, alongside Lindsay Lohan. The film premiered on May 12, 2006. After it was released he later landed a role in a comedy called Blind Dating and in an action film called Smokin' Aces. In the 2011 film, Green Lantern, Pine was rumored to play the title role, but instead it went to Ryan Reynolds. In the fall of 2009, Chris landed a role in the action film Unstoppable, directed by Tony Scott and written by Mark Bomback.
He filmed in the romantic comedy, This Means War, alongside Tom
Hardy and Reese Witherspoon, during the fall. The movie is scheduled for
release in February of 2010. Chris Pine also was a co-star with Olivia Wilde,
Michelle Pfeiffer, and Elizabeth Banks in the family drama Welcome to People, which
was filmed in the winter of 2011.In the animation Rise of the Guardians, he will voice Jack Frost,
which will be released in November 2012. In the next Star Trek film Chris is
set to reprise his role of Captain Kirk, which will come out on May 17, 2013.
