Greg Kinnear

Name: Greg Kinnear
Date of Birth: June 17, 1963
Place of Birth: Logansport, Indiana, USA

Mini-bio: reg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to parents Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department and Suzanne Kinnear, a full-time homemaker. Gre...( read more)g also has two brothers--one named James, Vice President-Investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona (born in 1957), and one named Steve, a business manager who works for the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina (born in 1959). As a child, Greg and his family moved around a lot, from places as far as Beirut, Lebanon to Athens, Greece. While a student in Athens, he learned to speak Greek, and Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear." Returning to the States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. From Arizona he headed out to Los Angeles, where he landed his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire Entertainment. Following this job he auditioned to be an MTV VJ, but failed and became a host and on-location reporter for the channel. When that job went under he had bit parts on such television shows as "L.A. Law" (1986) and "Life Goes On" (1989). He would later become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of "Best of the Worst" (1991), which aired from 1990 to 1991. He then received his breakthrough when he became the first host of "Talk Soup" (1991) until 1994, when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, "Later with Greg Kinnear" (1994). It was also in 1994 that Kinnear had his first big screen role, as a talk show host yet again in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman (1994). In 1995 he won the part of the David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic Sabrina (1995). He then received the lead role in the 1996 comedy Dear God (1996). In 1997, Greg was cast in James L. Brooks's blockbuster comedy drama As Good as It Gets (1997), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His next film, the romantic comedy A Smile Like Yours (1997), had him starring opposite Lauren Holly as part of a couple trying to have a baby. The film met with lukewarm reviews and a low box office, but his next film, You've Got Mail (1998), struck gold. He played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist wholly unlike what was to be his next character, that of Captain Amazing in the 1999 summer action film Mystery Men (1999). His more recent films include Someone Like You... (2001), thriller Godsend(2004), box-office winner Robots(2005), and Oscar winner, Little Miss Sunshine(2006). Has two daughters, Lily Katherine born in September 2003, and Audrey Mae, on June 13, 2006.

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Greg Kinnear mini-bio: reg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana, USA to parents Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US State Department and Suzanne Kinnear, a full-time homemaker. Greg also has two brothers--one named James, Vice President-Investments at Wachovia Securities in Arizona (born in 1957), and one named Steve, a business manager who works for the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina (born in 1959). As a child, Greg and his family moved around a lot, from places as far as Beirut, Lebanon to Athens, Greece. While a student in Athens, he learned to speak Greek, and Greg first ventured into the role of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear." Returning to the States for a college education, he attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. From Arizona he headed out to Los Angeles, where he landed his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire Entertainment. Following this job he auditioned to be an MTV VJ, but failed and became a host and on-location reporter for the channel. When that job went under he had bit parts on such television shows as "L.A. Law" (1986) and "Life Goes On" (1989). He would later become the creator, co-executive producer, and host of "Best of the Worst" (1991), which aired from 1990 to 1991. He then received his breakthrough when he became the first host of "Talk Soup" (1991) until 1994, when he left the show for the NBC late-night talk show, "Later with Greg Kinnear" (1994). It was also in 1994 that Kinnear had his first big screen role, as a talk show host yet again in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman (1994). In 1995 he won the part of the David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 classic Sabrina (1995). He then received the lead role in the 1996 comedy Dear God (1996). In 1997, Greg was cast in James L. Brooks's blockbuster comedy drama As Good as It Gets (1997), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His next film, the romantic comedy A Smile Like Yours (1997), had him starring opposite Lauren Holly as part of a couple trying to have a baby. The film met with lukewarm reviews and a low box office, but his next film, You've Got Mail (1998), struck gold. He played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist wholly unlike what was to be his next character, that of Captain Amazing in the 1999 summer action film Mystery Men (1999). His more recent films include Someone Like You... (2001), thriller Godsend(2004), box-office winner Robots(2005), and Oscar winner, Little Miss Sunshine(2006). Has two daughters, Lily Katherine born in September 2003, and Audrey Mae, on June 13, 2006.

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moh3jbr

One of the best actors

posted 52 days ago
JamieexBebe

I am in love. i am truely in lovee. ELL OH VEE EE. with GREG KINNEAR !!

posted 61 days ago
aleacim65

I love Kinnear and I thought his performance in 'As Good As It Gets' was fabulous! People should pay more attention to him!

posted 469 days ago
rdjrfan262

oh my best actor ever!!! so underrated i agree with you that he should be noticed more!!!! such an amazing singer to.. all of you who have seen Stuck On You will know what I'm talking about but all the movies i have seen with Kinnear in them are amazing. Every Kinnear fan needs to see Godsend! Crazy weird but good! Loved him in As Good As It Gets, also another great movie!

posted 474 days ago
DaNiQlVsOb

hi! u rok! ur hot!

posted 484 days ago
vealcalf2000

I love this guy and think he's so underated as an actor. Thought he was great in The Matador.

posted 584 days ago
thequietgirl

VERY UNDERATED. He is excellent, my favorite roll of his was in As Good As It Gets.

posted 584 days ago
geehoneybee

Very underrated as an actor.

posted 663 days ago