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Larry Pine

Larry Pine

American actor (born 1945)


Larry Pine (born March 3, 1945) is an American actor.

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A veteran of the Broadway stage, he began his career playing the role of Fop in the 1968 production of Cyrano de Bergerac. He has since starred in film and television, with recurring roles in television shows such as As the World Turns, One Life to Live, All My Children, Hostages, House of Cards, and Succession. He has also appeared in films such as Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Tim Robbins's Dead Man Walking (1995), Before and After (1996), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2004), and Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021).

Career

Pine began his professional acting career Off-Broadway, then in 1968 appeared as Fop in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.[1] A founding member of the avant-garde theater company the Manhattan Project, he appeared in its 1968 production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Andre Gregory.[2]

In 1978, he made his film debut in James Ivory's Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures, which was made for television but later released theatrically.[citation needed] Since then, he has performed in Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street[3] and Woody Allen's Celebrity, Small Time Crooks,[4] and Melinda and Melinda,[5] among other films. Pine appears in the book Are You Dave Gorman? as the first actor the writer encounters to have played a fictional Dave Gorman (in The Ice Storm).[citation needed] In both The Royal Tenenbaums and The Door in the Floor, he appears as a Charlie Rose-type interviewer, conducting a one-on-one interview in a dark studio.[6] From 1997 to 1999, Pine portrayed Barry Shire on All My Children.[7]

Personal life

Pine was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas,[8] and went on to graduate from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1968 with a Master of Fine Arts degree.[9] Since 1969, he has been married to composer and sound designer Margaret Pine (née Rachlin). The couple have one son, Jacob (born 1972).

Filmography

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References

  1. John Del Signore (May 28, 2013). "Actor Larry Pine Talks Walt Disney, Wallace Shawn, Lemmings". Gothamist. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  2. "Who's Alice: An Evening with Kate Burton, David Del Tredici, Larry Pine, Monica Edinger, and Robert Sabuda". alice150.com. 2015-10-05. Archived from the original on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2018-03-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. "Larry Pine Biography – Movies & TV". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on February 17, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

Further reading

  • Manhattan Project. Alice in Wonderland: The Forming of a Company and the Making of a Play, New York: Merlin House (1973).

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