Line #17 Creator/ZacharyQuinto


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7	[[caption-width-right:309:[[IAmNotSpock He's not Spock,]] [[Creator/LeonardNimoy either.]]]]
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9	->''"What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me -- cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try."''
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11	Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. Getting his start in bit roles on television, his role as the villainous Sylar on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' was his breakthrough performance, which ultimately led to his casting as Spock in Creator/JJAbrams' ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film series. He's also widely known for starring in [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse two]] [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum seasons]] of Creator/{{FX\|Networks}}'s ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory''.
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13	Zachary is also one of Hollywood's most prominent openly gay actors, and he used to date Creator/JonathanGroff.
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15	!!Selected filmography:
16	* ''[[Series/Charmed1998 Charmed]]'' (2003) as Familiar Hunter Warlock.
17	* ''Series/TwentyFour'' (2003-2004) as Adam Kaufman
18	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' (2006-2010) as Sylar
19	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Kelvin Timeline as [[Characters/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesSpock Spock]]
20	** ''Film/{{Star Trek\|2009}}'' (2009)
21	** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' (2013)
22	** ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' (2016)
23	* ''Film/MarginCall'' (2011) as Peter Sullivan
24	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' (2011-2013, 2022) in various roles:
25	** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' (2011) as Chad Warwick
26	** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' (2012-2013) as Oliver Thredson / [[spoiler: Bloody Face]]
27	** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryNYC'' (2022) as Sam
28	* ''Film/WhatsYourNumber'' (2011) as Rick
29	* ''Series/{{Girls}}'' (2015) as Ace
30	* ''Series/TheSlap'' (2015) as Harry Apostolou
31	* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' (2015) as Neal Frank
32	* ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' (2015) as John Smith
33	* ''Film/{{Snowden}}'' (2016) as Glenn Greenwald
34	* ''Literature/NOS4A2'' (2019) as Charlie Manx
35	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanManOfTomorrow'' (2020) as Lex Luthor (voice)
36	* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' (2021-) as Robot (voice)
37	* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder'' (2022-) as Barry Leibowitz-Jenkins (voice)
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39	!!His roles provides examples of:
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41	* {{Corpsing}}: Almost broke character when Spock was interrogating Kirk and Scotty; the final scene in the film shows his expression twitching just slightly enough to be missed.
42	** Also applies to several scenes in ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' where Sylar's expression can change just enough to indicate near-corpsing.
43	* DeadpanSnarker: Plays [[TheSpock one of the best]].
44	* DyeingForYourArt: In order to put on the prosthetic Spock eyebrows, he had to shave off his own. Creator/ChrisPine described it as a "forehead Brazilian wax."
45	* FandomNod: When an interviewer asked him about the the [=SArmy=] (Sylar's Army), who raise money for charities that he supports, he replied that he'd heard of them and considered it pretty damn cool.
46	* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Inverted. He's most famous for playing the famously serious, largely humorless Spock but is far more energetic and quick-witted in real life.
47	* KubrickStare: An expert at pulling these off as his time as Sylar demonstrated.
48	* MrFanservice: As Sylar's popularity increased, the writers wrote in more thinly veiled {{Fanservice}} moments into his scenes. There's a reason he and Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Peter, have the most {{shirtless scene}}s in the show.
49	* PromotedFanboy: An avowed drama geek from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he was extremely pleased to be cast as Louis in a production of ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' as he was a fan of the material.[[invoked]]
50	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He plays this up to its full hilt on the press tours for ''Film/StarTrek2009'' and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. In order to entertain themselves and alleviate the boredom of press junkets, he and Creator/ChrisPine engaged in a game of cramming in as many vocabulary words as they can into their answers, regardless of the context.
51	* TypeCasting: Typically cast as mentally unbalanced or at least morally dark {{Jerkass}} characters. His roles as Sasan and Spock, and his roles in ''Film/MarginCall'' and ''We'll Never Have Paris'' is actually him PlayingAgainstType. [[invoked]]
52	** The typecasting goes so deep that he was listed under "killers" on the [[Characters/{{Hannibal}} character page]] for ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' before his episode even aired. [[spoiler:It turns out he was innocent of any crime and completely harmless. For almost three seasons, it's been said that his character attacked his psychiatrist when it's been quite the opposite way around the whole time.]]

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