Larry Pine

Larry Pine
Pine in January 2013
Born	(1945-03-03) March 3, 1945 Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Alma mater	University of North Texas New York University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968–present
Spouse(s)	Margaret Rachlin (m. 1969)
Children	1

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

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 roles on series including As the World Turns, One Life to Live, All My Children, Hostages, and House of Cards, and roles in films including Alone in the Dark, Plain Clothes, Vanya on 42nd Street, Dead Man Walking, Before and After, The Royal Tenenbaums, Maid in Manhattan, Melinda and Melinda, Killing Kasztner, Moonrise Kingdom, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Career

Pine began his professional acting career Off-Broadway, then in 1968 appeared as Fop in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. A founding member of the avant-garde theater company the Manhattan Project, he appeared in its 1973 production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Andre Gregory.

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. Since then, he has performed in Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street and Woody Allen's Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, and Melinda and Melinda, 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). 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. From 1997 to 1999, Pine portrayed Barry Shire #1 on All My Children.

Personal life

Pine was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas,^[1] and went on to graduate from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1968 with a Master of Fine Arts degree.^[2] Since 1969, he has been married to composer and sound designer Margaret Pine (née Rachlin). The couple has one son, Jacob Pine (born 1972).

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

References

Further reading

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Larry Pine.

• Larry Pine at the Internet Movie Database
• Larry Pine at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• Larry Pine at the Internet Off-Broadway Database