Chris Pratt

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Biography

Christopher Michael Pratt is an American film and television actor. He came to prominence from his television roles, including Bright Abbott in _"Everwood" , and with whom he has one child, Jack Pratt. Chris's hobbies include fishing, hunting and working on cars. He has two older siblings, Cully and Angie.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·soundtrack·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 21 June 1979
  • Place of birth
  • Virginia· Minnesota
  • Residence
  • Los Angeles
  • Children
  • Jack Pratt
  • Spouses
  • Anna Faris·Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • California Republican Party

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Has two older siblings: Cully Pratt and Angie Pratt.

Hobbies include fishing, hunting and working on cars.

Engaged to Anna Faris on January 30, 2009.

Attended and graduated from Lake Stevens High School in Lake Stevens, Washington.

Chris and his estranged wife, Anna Faris , each had a dead bug collection before they met and they have since combined their collections.

Became a father for the first time at age 33 when his wife Anna Faris gave birth to their son Jack Pratt on August 25, 2012.

Chris worked at Bubba Gumps Restaurant in Hawaii when he met Rae Dawn Chong , who helped him get his start acting.

His father had English, German, Swiss-German, and French-Canadian ancestry. His mother is of entirely Norwegian ancestry.

Has appeared in a film that was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture for three consecutive years: Moneyball , Zero Dark Thirty and Her .

Has starred in two films with Morgan Freeman about ordinary individuals, abducted by tough women, to fulfill an extraordinary destiny: Wanted and The LEGO Movie .

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 21, 2017.

Friends with Aubrey Plaza.

He once worked as a stripper before his career took off.

Was homeless and lived in his van before his career took off.

Conversational in German, which he studied for three years in school.

In a game of "Guess That Guardian" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" , it was revealed that he once gave a piece of concrete to his German teacher claiming that it was a piece of the Berlin Wall.

In August 2017, Pratt and Anna Faris announced that they had filed for legal separation after eight years of marriage.

Quotes

Just be comfortable with who you are.

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You,just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best,anti-depressive that there is.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I,have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and,different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the,shower.

I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad,bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

Both "The O. C. " (2003) and "Everwood" (2002) , there were,people, on set, where you learned to stay away from them on a bad day.

I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

I just love him so much.

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I,have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no,room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot,easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

The American audience has really opened up to women being A. ) funny and,B. ) kinda crude. Bridesmaids (2011/I) is R-rated, and I think it,was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really,well. Same as Bad Teacher (2011) .

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking,with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had,written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid,$700 bucks.

10 Years (2011) was probably - I might say "10 Years" was my,favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was,totally different from Moneyball (2011) , in that it was a small,budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of,whom were basically working for free.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got,discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning,lottery ticket.

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but,Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

To go to the Oscars for Moneyball (2011) - that was pretty,amazing.

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for Moneyball (2011) to,almost 270-280 pounds for 10 Years (2011) .

Television is such an evolving medium.

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

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