Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton Pratt, who remodeled houses. He is of mostly Norwegian descent. He graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1997, and has two older siblings, Cully and Angie.
Chris came to prominence for his small-screen roles, including Bright Abbott in
Everwood (2002), Ché in
The O.C. (2003), and Andy Dwyer and
Parks and Recreation (2009), and notable film roles in
Moneyball (2011),
The Five-Year Engagement (2012),
Zero Dark Thirty (2012),
Delivery Man (2013), and
Her (2013). In 2014, he broke out as a leading man after headlining two of the year's biggest films: he voiced Emmet Brickowski in
The Lego Movie (2014) & starred as Peter Quill/Star-Lord in
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). In 2015, he headlined the sci-fi thriller
Jurassic World (2015), the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and his most financially successful film. In 2016, he co-starred in the remake
The Magnificent Seven (2016), with
Denzel Washington and
Ethan Hawke, and appeared with
Jennifer Lawrence in the sci-fi drama
Passengers (2016). In the near future, he returns as Star-Lord for
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), with
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) not far behind.