In 2004, he appeared in Why Germany?, a short film and in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Pine's first acting role was in a 2003 episode of ER the same year, he also appeared in episodes of The Guardian and CSI: Miami. Army base Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, following a screening of Star Trek in 2009 After graduating from Berkeley, he attended the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and he studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He was an exchange student at the University of Leeds in England for one year. As a member of the UC Berkeley Theater Department, Pine performed in a Caryl Churchill play at La Val's Subterranean Theater and performed Orestes and Shakespeare at Zellerbach Hall. As he was not interested in joining a fraternity, he got into theater. When he got to Berkeley, Pine was initially scared of looking for a place to fit in and had a hard time making friends. Pine attended the Oakwood School for high school, then went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a B.A. His uncle, Greg Max Gilford, is a former recording artist for Dunhill Records, who became a computer consultant, then, later, a Recovery Mentor/Support Specialist for United Healthcare. Gilford, who came from a Russian-Jewish family, was an attorney who was elected president of the Hollywood Bar Association. His maternal grandmother, Anne Gwynne, was a Hollywood actress.

He has an older sister, Katherine, who has also acted.

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

2.3 2017–present: Wonder Woman and continued film roles.

2.2 2009–2016: Star Trek and worldwide recognition.

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