Zachary Quinto - Biography

Last Editor: sunscreen48				Zachary Quinto Biography -   Name : Zachary Quinto Birth name : Zachary John Quinto Date of birth : June 2, 1977 Place of birth : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Profession : Actor Years active : 2000—present Height : 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Zachary Quinto Trivia -

Zachary Quinto graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. Zachary is the only person in history to appear on the cover of Entertainment Weekly two weeks in a row (issues 1017 & 1018). In issue 1020, the magazine published the fact that he is the only one to have that honor.

Zachary Quinto Detailed Biography -

Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American television actor known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on 24, Sasan on So NoTORIous, and Sylar on NBC's Heroes. He has been cast to appear in the 2009 film Star Trek, as a young Spock. Star Trek will be Quinto's feature film debut. Quinto, who is half-Italian and half-Irish, was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in nearby Green Tree, Pennsylvania. 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. Quinto first appeared on television in the short-lived television series The Others, and frequently appeared as a guest star on several hit television shows, including CSI, Touched By An Angel, Charmed, Six Feet Under, Lizzie McGuire, and L.A. Dragnet. 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. In 2006, Quinto played the role of Sasan, the haughty, flamboyantly gay Persian-American best friend of Tori Spelling on her "reality" VH1 sitcom So NoTORIous. Later that year, he joined the cast of NBC's Heroes as the quiet, insecure, and dangerously superpowered serial killer, Sylar. Quinto has reprised the role of Sylar for Heroes' second season as a contract regular. Quinto at the Jules Verne Adventures Film Festival, April 22, 2007 On July 23, 2007, several websites including E! Online reported that Quinto had in fact been cast as Spock. An official announcement confirming this followed on July 26, 2007 at the 2007 Comic-Con. Rumors dating back to December 2006 speculated that Zachary Quinto had been in negotiations to play a young Spock in the upcoming eleventh Star Trek film. Quinto had expressed interest in portraying Spock in a 2006 article in which he noted his resemblance to Leonard Nimoy.