Zachary Quinto

He has been cast to appear in the 2009 film Star Trek, as Spock. Star Trek will be Quinto's feature film debut.


Biography
Early life
Quinto, who is half-Italian and half-Irish, was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in nearby Green Tree, Pennsylvania with his mother, Margo and brother, Joe. His father, John, who was a hairdresser, died of cancer when Quinto was 7 years old. As a youth, Quinto attended summer camp at Camp Notre Dame in Fairview, Pennsylvania.

He was a member of the Civic Light Opera mini-stars in Pittsburgh as a child. He attended Aiken elementary school through fifth grade and Jay Neff Middle School through eighth grade in the Keystone Oaks school district.He graduated from Central Catholic High School, class of 1995, and then attended Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, from which he graduated in 1999.
Career
Quinto first appeared on television in the short-lived television series The Others, and appeared as a guest star on shows including CSI, Touched By An Angel, Charmed, Six Feet Under, Lizzie McGuire, and L.A. In 2003, he landed a recurring role on the Fox series 24, as computer expert Adam Kaufman.

Quinto appeared in all but one of the third season episodes of 24.


Quinto at the Heroes Season Three Premiere Party in September 2008

In 2006, Quinto played the role of Sasan, the haughty, Persian-American best friend of Tori Spelling on her VH1 series So NoTORIous. An official announcement confirming this followed on July 26, 2007, at the 2007 Comic-Con. Speaking alongside Leonard Nimoy at a press conference to promote the new Star Trek film, Quinto revealed that Nimoy had been given casting approval over who would play the role of the young Spock."For me Leonard's involvement was only liberating frankly," says Quinto." I knew that he had approval over the actor that would play young Spock, so when I got the role I knew from the beginning it was with his blessing."
In a September 2008 interview, Star Trek director J.J. Abrams said of Quinto's performance as Spock: "Zachary brought a gravity and an incredible sense of humor, which is a wonderful combination because Spock's character is deceivingly complicated.

The revelation for me watching the movie, when I finally got to watch the whole thing after working on sequences, was that he is extraordinary. He was doing things I didn't even realize while we were shooting, these amazing things to track his story."
Following Star Trek, he appeared in the comedy short "Boutonniere" (2009), explaining, "That was a movie written and directed by my former landlady and friend .She called up and said, 'Listen, y'know, would you do me a favor and be in my short film?' I played this very brief but extreme, funny character....