Actor Zachary Quinto broke through with the role of serial mutant-killer Sylar on the TV series
Heroes; he then played Mr. Spock in the 2009 film version of
Star Trek (with
Chris Pine as James T. Kirk). A native of Pennsylvania, Quinto graduated from Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama in 1999 and headed for Hollywood. He started getting TV roles the next year, and in the second half of the first season of
Heroes (in 2007) Quinto emerged as spooky Sylar, the psycho-stalker of Claire (played by
Hayden Panettiere). While
Heroes was hot property on TV, Quinto joined the cast of the 2009 feature film
Star Trek as Mr. Spock (played on television in the 1960s by
Leonard Nimoy).
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