Who is Chris Pratt?
Actor Christopher Pratt was born in the United States on June 21, 1979. Chris Pratt is among the highest-grossing movie stars of all time, with his starring roles earning over $14.1 billion worldwide. From 2015 to 2017, Pratt was among the highest-paid actors in the world. He has made a name for himself as one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars by acting in high-profile movies and series.
Chris Pratt, who was born in Virginia, Minnesota, started out in movies in small parts before landing a lead in the drama series Everwood (2002–2006). In the 2009–2015 NBC series Parks and Recreation, he played Andy Dwyer, which was his breakthrough role.
By playing Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie franchise, which included a number of superhero movies from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Pratt gained international acclaim and made a name for himself as a top actor. Additionally, he plays the same character again in later Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
By playing Owen Grady in the Jurassic World franchise (2015–2022), which comprises of three films with a combined global box office total of nearly $3.9 billion, Pratt furthered his critical and financial success.
In addition, he starred in the scientific fiction adventure picture The Electric State (2025), the military science-fiction action film The Tomorrow War (2021), the science fiction adventure film Passengers (2016), and the Western action film The Magnificent Seven (2016). Additionally, Pratt has provided the voice of characters in animated films such as The Garfield Movie (2024), The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), Onward (2020), and The Lego Movie franchise (2014–2019).
He was included in Forbes’ Celebrity 100 in 2016 and Time named him one of the 100 most important persons in the world in 2015. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 and is frequently seen as a sex symbol. Since 2019, Pratt has been married to author Katherine Schwarzenegger after divorcing actress Anna Faris. He has three children with Schwarzenegger and one with Faris. Pratt has been the owner of Indivisible Productions since February 2020.
Chris Pratt Early Life
On June 21, 1979, Chris Pratt was born in Virginia, Minnesota. His father, Daniel Clifton Pratt, worked in a variety of professions, including home repair and mining, while his mother, Kathleen Louise “Kathy” (née Indahl), was employed at a Safeway grocery. Angie, his sister, and Daniel “Cully” Pratt, his brother, are his two older siblings. Pratt attributes his acting career to his brother Cully, whom he has named as one of his greatest influences. Pratt’s father moved the family to Anchorage, Alaska, when he was two or three years old, and they spent the following several years there.
The family went through a period of instability, moving between twenty residences across the United States in pursuit of employment possibilities because they were worried that the bears in Alaska made rearing children too risky.
The family finally made their home in the Seattle neighborhood of Lake Stevens, Washington, when Pratt was six or seven years old. Chris Pratt described a family cruise holiday in which he and his brother competed in a dancing competition, with Pratt taking third place, in an interview with The Huffington Post. He often danced as a kid to Michael Jackson, dance drama Saturday Night Fever (1977), and hip-hop music.
Having once won $300 in a bingo contest and spent it all on comics, Pratt was a regular comic book reader. He once told the Los Angeles Times that his house was filled with artwork, recalling that the walls were covered in murals reminiscent of comic books, and that “I would try to copy these exceptional artists who could just draw male and female figures.” Pratt expressed an interest in music as a youngster, listening to mainstream artists like the Beatles and rappers like Tupac Shakur and Mos Def. He has named Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley as his main musical influences. He started playing the guitar at this point.
In high school, Chris Pratt participated in shot put on the track and field team and placed fifth in a state wrestling tournament. “I don’t know what I want to do, but I know I’ll be famous and I’ll make a shit ton of money,” he said to his wrestling instructor at the time, looking back on the incident. “I didn’t know how,” he continued. I hadn’t taken any initiative. He graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1997. After leaving community college in the middle of his first semester, Pratt worked at a number of occupations, including selling cheap tickets and even a brief stint as a daytime stripper. Eventually, he ended up living on the beach in a tent and a van in Maui, Hawaii.
“Looking back, it’s a pretty awesome place to be homeless,” he said to The Independent. We just drank and smoked drugs and worked minimal hours just enough to cover gas, food, and fishing supplies”. He also collaborated with the Christian missionary organization Jews for Jesus while he was in Maui.
Career
2000–2013: Early roles and breakthrough
Chris Pratt was found by actress and director Rae Dawn Chong when she was nineteen years old and working as a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Maui. His charm won her over, and he was chosen to play Devon in her first feature film as a filmmaker, Cursed Part 3 (2000), a short horror movie. Pratt was “early and completely prepared” when he got on set, and Chong claims that his performance “blew everyone away”. Pratt says he has “no regrets about getting his start” in Cursed Part 3 because the movie taught him the basics of acting. In the television series Everwood (2002–2006), Pratt played Harold Brighton “Bright” Abbott in his first regular role. Pratt played activist Winchester “Ché” Cook in the fourth season of the 2006–2007 teen drama television series The O.C.
After that, Chris Pratt played Bobby in the comedy Wieners (2008) and Barry, Wesley’s (James McAvoy) coworker and unfaithful closest friend, in the action thriller Wanted (2008). He portrayed the main man character of Lester Watts in the romantic comedy Deep in the Valley (2009), the cop Roman Duda in the horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body (2009), and Emma’s (Anne Hathaway) fiancé in the romantic comedy Bride Wars (2009). His first major part in a comedy movie was the lattermost. Pratt started as Andy Dwyer on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation in 2009, and he remained in that role until 2015.
Chris Pratt portrayed Scott Hatteberg, catcher and first baseman for the Oakland Athletics, in the 2011 biographical sports drama Moneyball. When he was first told he was too fat for the part, he blamed it on the food his then-girlfriend, actress Anna Faris, prepared. Pratt, who was adamant about getting the role, followed a rigorous exercise regimen and monitored the casting process, ultimately losing 30 pounds (14 kg) in three months. He sent a picture to the casting director as soon as he felt physically prepared, landing the part. He played the dramatic part of a depressed baseball player and loving father in Moneyball, battling the difficult adjustment to a new defensive position and the worry that his career was ended. Prior to losing it again to play a Navy SEAL in Zero Dark Thirty (2012), he got it back for his performance in the high school reunion comedy 10 Years (2011).
Pratt appears in The Five-Year Engagement, a romantic comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, in 2012. According to Vulture critic David Edelstein, who gave the movie mixed reviews, he had enough “sweetness to compensate for his character’s adolescent japes.” Later, in the 2013 movies Delivery Man and Her, he portrayed the supporting parts of Brett and Paul, respectively.
2014–2018: Worldwide recognition and blockbuster films
Chris Pratt, who was previously mainly recognized for supporting parts, landed prominent roles in two big studio productions in 2014. He was chosen in June 2012 to play Emmet Brickowski in the 2014 animated adventure comedy The Lego Movie. He played a construction worker who has to prevent a despotic tycoon from incorporating the Lego universe into his inflexible ideal. With mostly favorable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and $470.7 million at the worldwide box office, the movie was a critical and financial triumph.
In 2014, he played a significant role in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy as Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord, a spacefaring mercenary who was kidnapped from Earth as a child and reared by a gang of extraterrestrial robbers and smugglers known as the Ravagers. Pratt first turned down the part of Star-Lord, saying he didn’t want to have “another Captain Kirk or Avatar moment,” alluding to his humiliating audition experiences for those parts. But director James Gunn, who had been having trouble casting the role, first rejected the notion after casting director Sarah Finn suggested him. After Finn set up a meeting between the two, Gunn was persuaded that Pratt was the best candidate for the position.
At a total of $773.3 million, Guardians of the Galaxy was the third highest-grossing movie of 2014. Pratt inked a multi-film deal with Marvel Studios that included the part. His “love for seventies music which is so full of good will that he buoys the film” and charisma were praised by Bruce Diones of The New Yorker.
2019–present: Continued success and versatility
In the 2019 follow-up to The Lego Movie (2014), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Pratt played Emmet Brickowski once more. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus stated that the movie “isn’t quite as much fun as its predecessor,” despite the fact that critics gave it largely excellent reviews. It did poorly at the box office, even though the reviews were generally positive. Pratt portrays Rio Cutler’s antagonistic uncle, Grant Cutler, in the 2019 Western The Kid. Though he was not included in the main ensemble cast, Pratt later returned to the role of Star-Lord in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Avatar (2009) overtook Endgame as the highest-grossing movie of all time with its 2021 Chinese re-release.
Chris Pratt founded Indivisible Productions, his own production firm, in February 2020. Pratt is listed as an executive producer on its debut production, The Terminal List, which debuted on Amazon Prime Video in July 2022. Alongside his Avengers co-star Tom Holland, Pratt provided the voice of one of the main characters in the Disney and Pixar animated movie Onward in March 2020. In May 2021, Pratt and Parks and Recreation said that a new album based on Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer would be released. Before releasing the album Mouse Rat: The Awesome Album in August of the same year, they formally released two singles, “The Pit” and “Two Birds Holding Hands,” in June.
He portrayed Dan Forester, a science instructor who journeys into the future to aid humanity in fending against an alien invasion, in the film The Tomorrow War (2021). Critics gave both the movie and Pratt’s performance in it largely mixed reviews. He played Owen Grady again in Jurassic World Dominion (2022), which made just over $1 billion and was the third highest-grossing movie of the year. In Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), Pratt portrayed Star-Lord in a supporting role that same year.
Mario, the protagonist of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), was voiced by Chris Pratt. With a gross of more than $1.36 billion, it became the second-highest-grossing movie of 2023 and the highest-grossing video game-based movie ever. He returned to the lead role of Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), which became the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2023 with a global box office total of $845.6 million. Pratt’s only role of the year was as the voice of the title cat in the animated comedy The Garfield Movie (2024). The movie did well at the box office despite receiving a negative review. He costarred with Millie Bobby Brown in the 2025 film The Electric State.
With a $320 million budget, it is among the priciest movies ever made and the most costly movie ever on Netflix. Critics criticized it, nevertheless; some felt that the money was squandered, while others were dissatisfied with the actors’ performances and the Russo brothers’ directing.
Chris Pratt Personal Life and Faith
Chris Pratt met actress Anna Faris, who played his romantic interest in Take Me Home Tonight (2011), in February 2007. After a friend’s wedding, the pair decided to elope on their own initiative and was married in Bali, Indonesia, on July 9, 2009, after becoming engaged in late 2008. The Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles was where Pratt and Faris called home. In 2012, Faris gave birth to their baby, who weighed only 3 pounds 12 ounces (1.7 kg) and was delivered nine weeks early. He and Faris “prayed a lot” during the uncertain early days of their son’s life, according to Pratt, who later said that the incident had a significant impact on his faith. In August 2017, Pratt and Faris made their split public. Citing irreconcilable differences, he filed for divorce on December 1, 2017, seeking shared custody of their kid. The final date of the divorce was October 31, 2018.
In June 2018, Pratt started dating novelist Katherine Schwarzenegger, whom her mother, Maria Shriver, had introduced her to. Chris Pratt declared their engagement on January 14, 2019, and the two were married in Montecito, California, on June 8, 2019. They stayed at an opulent resort on the Hawaiian island of Lanai during their honeymoon. In 2020, the couple welcomed their first daughter into the world. In 2022, they welcomed their second daughter, and in 2024, they welcomed a son. As a result of his union with Schwarzenegger, Pratt joined the Kennedy family.
Pratt and Schwarzenegger purchased the architecturally noteworthy Ellwood Zimmerman House in Brentwood, California, in 2023. Later, the original building was razed to create room for a larger home, which drew criticism from the world press.
After growing up Lutheran, Pratt eventually worked with Jews for Jesus before deciding to call himself a non-denominational Christian. He is a member of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, which was the subject of public criticism after actor Elliot Page accused it of being anti-LGBTQ due to its affiliation with a pastor who was once with Hillsong Church.
Pratt responded to the charge by saying, “Recently, there have been rumors that I’m a member of a church that ‘hates a certain group of people’ and is ‘infamously anti-LGBTQ.’ It couldn’t be further from the reality. Everybody is welcome at the church where I attend. Later, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston explained that Pratt had never attended their church. The Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) director James Gunn also openly supported Pratt, claiming to have heard of the church Pratt currently attends and denouncing those who advocated for the actor to be recast as Star-Lord.
Chris Pratt declared in 2017 that he does not identify with either political party and that he wants to foster unity by identifying points of agreement. He and his spouse, Katherine, were appointed Special Olympics Global Ambassadors in 2020. He posted an opinion piece about the 2024 US presidential election on Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper website in 2024. He did not endorse Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in it, instead emphasizing togetherness over party loyalty.
Chris Pratt Net Worth
Actor Chris Pratt is an American with a $100 million fortune. In the 2009–2015 season of “Parks and Recreation,” Chris Pratt first became well-known for his portrayal of Andy Dwyer. Pratt’s portrayal received great praise, and the character’s endearing, if little silly, personality won him over many fans.
Honours and awards
Pratt’s most well-known films include Moneyball (2011), Her (2013), The Lego Movie (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Onward (2020), Alaskan Nets (2021), and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), according to review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Among his honors are the MTV Movie Award, the Saturn Award, and the MTV Movie & TV Award.
