Star Trek

Zachary Quinto, who seems born to play an updated as well as alternate-reality version of a young adult Spock in 2009's Star Trek film, first came to wide public attention while starring as the villain Sylar in the TV series Heroes.

The Pittsburgh native has been acting in theater since age 11, in a wide variety of shows, including Side Man, Gross Indecency, Oliver!, Much Ado About Nothing, The Bear, and Lonely Impulse of Delight. During high school, Quinto realized that acting was more than a hobby, and decided to further pursue his dream by attending Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. There, he was honored with the University’s prestigious Gene Kelly Award for his role as the Major General in The Pirates of Penzance. Acting in television since 2000, his first job was in The Others, and he quickly scored guest-starring roles on CSI, Touched by an Angel, Charmed, Six Feet Under, Crossing Jordan and Dragnet. He enjoyed a recurring role on 24 and co-starred in Tori Spelling’s sitcom, So NoTORIous. In addition, his film credits include Down with Love and Psychic Murders.

Following Star Trek, he appeared in the comedy short Before After and the feature Girl Walks into a Bar.  Apart from his skyrocketing career, Quinto made headlines in 2011 when, bothered by a rising number of troubled and bullied young homosexual men and suicides, he came out as gay as part of the "It'll Get Better" social movement—becoming the second openly gay Star Trek actor, after George Take of the original cast.