Greg Kinnear

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Biography

Greg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat with the US State Department, and Suzanne .

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·producer·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 June 1963
  • Place of birth
  • Logansport· Indiana

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

1985: Attended the University of Arizona, where he graduated in Broadcast Journalism.

Lived in Greece for a time and can speak Greek.

Member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

2001: He and wife Helen had a baby, but unfortunately it was stillborn.

Daughter Lily Kathryn Kinnear born September 12, 2003.

13 June, 2006: He and wife Helen became the parents of a second girl, Audrey Mae.

"Kinnear" is used as a verb meaning to surreptitiously photograph someone and was coined by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a., The Yarn Harlot, www.yarnharlot.ca/blog); published in an article in the New York Times, "All We Are Saying" (December 23, 2007).

Lived in Beirut, Lebanon for almost nine months in 1975 due to his fathers position with the State Department. After fighting broke out in Lebanon, his father was reassigned to the American Embassy in Athens, Greece and the family remained there for seven years.

(March 2003) Filming the new Farrelly Brothers film Stuck on You with Matt Damon.

Quotes

I was born in Indiana. My father was with the State Department in,Washington, D. C. We lived in Reston, Virginia, for about three years.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. .

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