Chris Pratt
Birthdate: Jun 21, 1979
Birthplace: Virginia, Minnesota, USA
Emerging as one of Hollywood’s most likable new stars, Chris Pratt (birthname: Christopher Michael Pratt) has become a fan favorite in especially the running franchises, MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World. Discovered by actor-director Rae Dawn Chong while he was serving at Bubba Gump restaurant, Chris Pratt was cast in Chong’s short film Cursed Pt. 3 (2000).
Most of his early work was in television, with occasional small parts in movies like Matthew Allen’s Walk the Talk (2007), with Cary Elwes and Ileana Douglas. Still, his major career turn was being cast, as Andy, in the ensemble of the hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009-2015).
Pratt’s major turning point in feature films was landing a key supporting dramatic role in Bennett Miller’s Oscar-winning baseball movie Moneyball (2011), with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Pratt continued an unexpected run of acting in Best Picture Oscar-nominated movies with Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), with Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Joel Edgerton, followed by a role opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze’s science-fiction Her (2013), with Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson.
Chris Pratt entered the realm of blockbusters in 2014, voicing the role of Emmet Brickowski in Phil Lord’s and Christopher Miller’s The Lego Movie and as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, the affable pilot in Marvel’s mega-hit action comedy, Guardians of the Galaxy, both earning a combined $1.24 billion worldwide box office. Pratt’s next blockbuster topped even that outstanding gross, as he replaced Josh Brolin as Owen in the Jurassic Park reboot, Jurassic World (2015), with Bryce Dallas Howard and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Pratt had lead or co-lead roles in three of the most successful franchises simultaneously—Guardians of the Galaxy, and the associated Marvel Comics Universe, The Lego Movie, and Jurassic World. These three ongoing tentpoles provided Pratt with the lion’s share of his roles from 2014 to 2022, with notable departures, such as Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven (2016), the Morten Tyldum-directed science fiction drama, Passengers (2016), with Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, and Laurence Fishburne, and star of Amazon’s The Tomorrow War (2021), with Yvonne Strahovski and J.K. Simmons.
Chris Pratt’s busy MCU presence as Peter Quill and Star-Lord includes not only Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) but the mega-grossing Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). His busy 2019 was the same year he returned as Emmet (as well as the new character Rex Dangervest) in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
Pratt resumed his character of Owen in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), again with Bryce Dallas Howard, followed by Jurassic World Dominion (2022), with Howard and Jurassic Park alum Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum. Expanding his franchise portfolio to include the Super Mario Brothers, Pratt is starring as the voice of Mario in the untitled Super Mario Brothers movie set to be released in 2023, with co-stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, and Seth Rogen. Pratt also voices the crafty cat Garfield in Garfield (2023) with Samuel L. Jackson.
Personal Details
Born in the Minnesota town of Virginia, Chris Pratt was raised by Daniel and Kathy Pratt. He has two siblings, Cully and Angie. His family moved to Lake Stevens, Washington when he was seven years old, and graduated from Lake Stevens High School. He attended the local community college, then dropped out. Pratt was married to actor Anna Faris from 2009 to 2018; the couple had one son, Jack. He is currently married to author Katherine Schwarzenegger; the couple has two daughters, Lyla and Eloise. Pratt has three children. He is 6’ 2”.
Known For
Parks and Recreation
(2009)
Awards
Recipient, Hollywood Walk of Fame (2017).
Critics Choice Award
Critics Choice Awards
Critics Choice Award
Critics Choice Awards
Filmography
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- 2024 | The Garfield MovieasGarfield
The Garfield Movie
After Garfield's unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
- 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3asPeter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
- 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. MovieasMario
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
- 2022 | Thor: Love and ThunderasPeter Quill
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.
- 2022 | Jurassic World DominionasOwen Grady
Jurassic World Dominion
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.
- 2021 | Alaskan Nets
- 2021 | The Tomorrow WarasDan Forester
The Tomorrow War
A man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront his past.
- 2020 |
- 2019 |
- 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartasEmmet Brickowski
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
- 2018 | Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomasOwen Grady
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
- 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2asPeter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.
- 2016 | PassengersasJim Preston
Passengers
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
- 2016 | The Magnificent SevenasJosh Faraday
The Magnificent Seven
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
- 2015 | Jurassic WorldasOwen Grady
Jurassic World
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
- 2014 | Guardians of the GalaxyasPeter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy
A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.
- 2014 | The Lego MovieasEmmet Brickowski
The Lego Movie
An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as 'special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.
- 2013 |
- 2013 | Delivery ManasBrett
Delivery Man
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.
- 2012 | On the Mat
- 2012 | Zero Dark ThirtyasJustin - DEVGRU
Zero Dark Thirty
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
- 2011 | 10 Yearsas Cully
- 2012 | The Five-Year EngagementasAlex Eilhauer
The Five-Year Engagement
One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.
- 2011 |
- 2011 | Take Me Home Tonightas Kyle Masterson
- 2009 | Deep in the Valleyas Lester Watts
- 2009 | Jennifer's Bodyas Officer Roman Duda
- 2009 | Bride Warsas Fletcher
- 2007 | Walk the Talkas Cam
- 2003 | The Extreme Teamas Keenan
Some Facts About Chris Pratt
Day Jobs: Among his jobs, before he became an actor, Chris Pratt worked in a Bubba Gump restaurant in Hawaii, and as a daytime stripper.
Homeless: Struggling for work on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Pratt experienced periods of homelessness and lived out of a van on a beach.
Bugged Out: Chris Pratt and his future wife Anna Farris both collected dead insects and then combined their collections.
Award-Winner: Among Pratt’s various awards, he won the 2019 Kids’ Choice Award for “Favorite Butt Kicker,” for his performance in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Fusion: Chris Pratt fused two of his franchise roles, voicing Owen in the video game Lego Jurassic World (2015).
Family Ties: Pratt is a member of both the Kennedy family and the Schwarzenegger family through marriage.
