Actor zachary quinto biography examples
Lori talks to Zachary Quinto about finding fame after “Star Trek,” will he back for another installment of “American Horror Story,” and being the host of History’s “In Search Of.”
Video Content: Zachary Quinto (2019)
SIDEWALKS host Lori Rosales talks to Zachary Quinto about fame after “Star Trek,” his favorite story arc on NBC’s “Heroes,” what type of roles he would love to do, and hosting another season of History’s “In Search Of.”
Mini-Biography:
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Zachary Quinto is an actor and producer. He is known for playing Sylar on NBC’s “Heroes” (2006–2010) and Mr. Spock in the reboot “Star Trek” films. Along with TV roles in “So NoTORIous,” “The Slap,” and “24,” Quinto played characters in “American Horror Story” series and Charlie Manx in “NOS4A2.” Some of his film roles include “Margin Call,” “What’s Your Number?,” “Hitman: Agent 47,” “Snowden,” and “Hotel Artemis.”
Interview Credits:
Recorded: October 3, 2019
Host / Producer: Lori Rosales
Editor: Richard R. Lee
Special Thanks To: History, Universal Television
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Boy in the Band Zachary Quinto on the State of Gay
After helping make TV and film franchises like Heroes and Star Trek successful, out actor Zachary Quinto is stepping into a more down-to-earth role -- as an "ugly, pockmarked, Jew fairy" in the revival of Mart Crowley's 1968 play (and 1970 film), The Boys in the Band. In the Ryan Murphy-produced Broadway staging, Quinto portrays Harold, the cutting character whose birthday sets the Boys' drunken hysteria into motion. As Quinto prepped for the May 31 opening, he spoke with The Advocate about his political passions and why Boys touches such a nerve with queer men.
The Advocate: Hi, Zach. Tell us about your history with The Boys in the Band. Have you seen the film?
Quinto: No, I've actually never seen it.
What was your awareness of it when you heard about the revival?
I knew of its legacy. But I didn't have a very informed opinion of the play until I did our initial reading of it and had subsequent conversations with Joe Mantello, Ryan Murphy, and David Stone about the production of it. I feel like I have a much deeper, fuller understanding of the play now, and towards its resonance and power. It was sort of stigmatized when the movie came out. I feel like I was under the influence of some of that stigmatic thinking. So it's been really nice to get to know it with fresh eyes and from the experience of being inside of it, which is quite fun.
One of the themes of the play and movie is how gay men interact with each other. How do you think that's evolved in the 50 years since the play premiered? I was watching the first two episodes of season 11 of American Horror Story the other night because: a. I needed an escape b. It takes place in gay NYC in 1981, and c. I figured, how much worse could they make the impending doom of that time than it already was? Plus, one thing I can always count on this show and Ryan Murphy for is a few cheap thrills. And let’s face it, these days nothing is cheap and little, if anything, feels thrilling. Well hell if I can’t say American Horror Story: NYC and Ryan didn’t deliver every cheap, thrilling, tawdry, salacious and ridiculously familiar tidbit with a twist that I could imagine, and then some. But the problem is, it also made me think. In an age of alternative facts is it okay to simply mix real events and fictionalized nonsense to the point where even I, an overly analytical gay guy who lived through those times, can barely tell the difference between fact and fiction? Or, say it isn’t so, is that actually the point??? AHS: NYC is the latest in a whole series of sensationalized TV and movie fact-tion that to varying degrees feasts on real people, real events and even numerous real names and images. They then swallow them whole and spit them out into a based on a true story but not really dramatization of events and eras that definitely existed but, well, in not exactly the way we’re telling it. Netflix’s recent humorless (note: and in my mind heartless) feature Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novelistic approach to the barely fictionalized life of Marilyn Monroe (note: real name used) instantly comes to mind. As does the retelling of one view of Princess Diana’s life in last year’s Spencer, not to mention the singular tragedy porn take of director Pablo Larrain’s telling of the brief post-assassination period of Jacqueline Kennedy’s life in 2016’s Jackie. This approach is not limited to the real li Zachary Quinto was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Margaret J. (McArdle), an Irish-American office worker, and Joseph John Quinto, an Italian-American barber. Zachary graduated from Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, with the class of 1995, where he won Pittsburgh's Gene Kelly Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the Major General in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance". He then went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University, where he continued to hone his talents by performing in plays and musicals. He first appeared on numerous television series since 2000 and, in 2003, landed the role of computer expert "Adam Kaufman" on the Fox series, 24 (2001), during its third season. In 2006, Quinto portrayed serial killer "Sylar" on the science fiction series, Heroes (2006), until its cancellation in 2010, after four seasons. He was cast in his first main film role as "Spock", in the hugely successful franchise reboot, Star Trek (2009). BornJune 2, 1977
Well, the play takes place in a time when the only place when gay men could be open and authentic with themselves was in private. There wasn't the freedom that we enjoy today, and I think that's probably the most significant evolution in the past 50 years, is the ways in which we as an LGBTQ community have become more integrated and more authentically ou