Jonathan Zachary Pine (born 28 february 1981 in Westminster district of London) to Diana Patricia (née Servaes) Pine, an arts administrator and former stage manager, and Dr. James Norman Pine, a physical chemist and former managing director of a biotechnology company that liaised with Oxford University. His father is from Greenock in Renfrewshire in the west of Scotland, and his mother is from Suffolk. His younger sister, Emma, is also an actress, whilst his older sister, Sarah, is a journalist in India. Through his mother, he is a great-grandson of Vice Admiral Reginald Servaes and a great-great-grandson of food producer Sir Edmund Vestey. His paternal grandfather, Alexander, served in the Royal Artillery and worked as a plater in the shipyards. He shares the same name as his great-great uncle,Jonathan Pine, a shipyard plater from Greenock and a member of Royal Artillery’s 51st (Highland) Division, who died after the Battle of the Somme and whose name is engraved in the Broomhill war memorial. Pine is an ex-soldier, who fought in Iraq and now lives in retreat from life, and himself, as a hotel night manager. A self-exiled creature of the night, and perpetual escapee from emotional entanglement, Pine’s conscience is pricked when his act of disclosing documents confidentially entrusted to him by a hotel guest results in her death. What begins as a quest for atonement becomes a quest for his own soul, as he enters the inner sanctum of Richard Roper and navigates the shadowy recesses of his world. Pine was raised in Wimbledon in his early years, and later moved to a village near Oxford. He began boarding at Windlesham House School at age seven, moving to the Dragon School in Oxford a year later. His parents divorced when he was twelve. Regarding his parents’ divorce, he said, "I like to think it made me more compassionate in my understanding of human frailty." At age thirteen, Pine started at Eton College, again as a boarder. He continued on to Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics. During his second term at Cambridge, he was seen in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire by talent agent Lorraine Hamilton of Hamilton Hodell. He proceeded to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.

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Jonathan Zachary Pine