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Zachary Quinto

Zachary John Quinto (/ˈkwɪnt/; born June 2, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010); Spock in the film Star Trek (2009) and its sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016); Charlie Manx in the AMC series NOS4A2, and Dr. Oliver Thredson in American Horror Story: Asylum, for which he received a nomination for an Emmy award. His other starring film roles include Margin Call (2011), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), Snowden (2016), and Hotel Artemis (2018). He also appeared in smaller roles on television series, such as So Notorious, The Slap, and 24, and on stage in Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie, and Smokefall.

Zachary Quinto

Zachary John Quinto

(1977-06-02) June 2, 1977
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
  • Actor
  • producer

2000–present

P.J. McArdle (great-grandfather)
Joseph A. McArdle (grandfather)

Early life[edit]

Zachary John Quinto was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Margaret "Margo" (née McArdle), who worked at an investment firm and later at a magistrate's office, and Joseph John "Joe" Quinto, a barber.[1][2] He was raised in the suburb of Green Tree, Pennsylvania, and attended Saints Simon and Jude Catholic School (closed 2010). His father died of cancer when Quinto was seven years old, and Quinto and his brother, Joe, were subsequently raised by their mother.[3] Quinto's maternal great-grandfather was the labor activist and Republican Pittsburgh City Councilman Peter J. McArdle, whom Pittsburgh's P.J. McArdle Roadway is named after.[4] His maternal grandfather was Joseph A. McArdle, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[5]


Quinto was raised Catholic.[6] His father was of Italian descent, while his mother was of Irish ancestry.[7][8] Quinto graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1995, where he participated in its musicals and won the Gene Kelly Award for Best Supporting Actor, and then attended Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama, from which he graduated in 1999.[9][10]

Personal life[edit]

Quinto publicly came out as gay in October 2011.[42] He explained that, after the suicide of bisexual teenager Jamey Rodemeyer, he felt that "living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality."[43] Prior to his coming out, Quinto had long been an active supporter of gay rights and organizations, including The Trevor Project.[44] In 2009, he appeared in the one-night production Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, a benefit stage reading in response to the passing of Proposition 8,[45] as well as in the play The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.[46] In 2010, Quinto contributed a video to the It Gets Better Project, an Internet-based campaign that aims to prevent suicide among LGBTQAI+ youth.[43] In 2012, Quinto campaigned on behalf of Barack Obama, including appearing in the video Obama Pride: LGBT Americans For Obama.[47]


From 2010 to 2013, Quinto was in a relationship with actor Jonathan Groff.[48][49] Quinto began dating model and musician Miles McMillan in the summer of 2013.[50] In early 2015, the couple moved into a NoHo, Manhattan apartment they purchased together.[51][52] In November 2015, Vogue magazine called them "a power couple whose domain extends across the film, fashion, and art scene."[53] The two ended their relationship in early 2019.[54]


In 2017, Quinto criticized the timing of actor Kevin Spacey's decision to come out as part of his response to allegations of sexual advances towards then-14-year-old actor Anthony Rapp.[55] He called the manner of Spacey's announcement "deeply sad and troubling," feeling he had not stood up "as a point of pride—in the light of all his many awards and accomplishments—thus inspiring tens of thousands of struggling LGBTQ kids around the world", but instead as "a calculated manipulation to deflect attention from the very serious accusation that he attempted to molest one".[56]

Sundance Film Festival

LGBT culture in New York City

List of LGBT people from New York City

List of Carnegie Mellon University people

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