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Travis Fine
American actor (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Travis Lane Fine (born June 26, 1968) is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his film Any Day Now, and for his roles in Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.
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Early life
Fine was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the second son of Maxine Parker Makover and Terry Fine, a professional golfer. His parents divorced when he was six years old. At 15, he moved to Los Angeles. He went to Beverly Hills High School and attended Pitzer College for a year.[1][2]
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Acting career
Fine's acting career started at the age of seven when he was cast as John Henry in a stage production of Member of the Wedding at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Over the next few years, he starred in theatre productions at the Alliance Theatre, the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis and at Beverly Hills High School, including stagings of: A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Oliver!, Macbeth, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, On Golden Pond, Tom Sawyer, Grease, and Amadeus (in which he played Mozart). His on-screen debut came at the age of twelve in A Time for Miracles starring Lorne Greene.[3]
In 1989, Fine gained attention as the mute and bald Pony Express rider Ike McSwain, on ABC's Western series The Young Riders.[citation needed]
In 2002, Fine started a new career in commercial aviation by attending ATP flight school. In 2003, he was hired as a first officer flying Embraer regional jets for Chatauqua Airlines, although he said he "ha[s] not ruled out doing more acting" and he continues writing screenplays.[4]
Filmmaking career
Fine sold his first screenplay, The Lords of the Sea (written in 1994), to Howard Koch Jr., after which he was hired to write episodes for Diagnosis: Murder and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. In 1996, he attended New York Film Academy, where he wrote, directed and produced several short films. A year later, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature-length film, The Others, a high school comedy.[5]
In 2009, Fine wrote and directed The Space Between, starring Melissa Leo. In 2012 he co-wrote, produced and directed Any Day Now, an LGBT film set in the 1970s, starring Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, and Frances Fisher. Fine produced the film with his wife Kristine.
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Personal life
On Valentine's Day, 1993, Fine married Jessica Resnick. The couple divorced in 1995.[6] On June 29, 2002, he married Kristine Fine (née Hostetter). He has two daughters, born in 1994 and 2004, and a son, born in 2007. Fine is Jewish[7] and bisexual.[8]
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