Jun 17, 1963

Logansport, Indiana, USA

reg Kinnear was born on June 17, 1963, in Logansport, Indiana,
USA to parents Edward Kinnear, a career diplomat who worked for the US
State Department and Suzanne Kinnear, a full-time homemaker. Greg also has
two brothers--one named James, Vice President-Investments at Wachovia
Securities in Arizona (born in 1957), and one named Steve, a business
manager who works for the Billy Graham Training Center in North Carolina
(born in 1959). As a child, Greg and his family moved around a lot, from... ... (read more...)
places as far as Beirut, Lebanon to Athens, Greece. While a student in
Athens, he learned to speak Greek, and Greg first ventured into the role
of talk show host with his radio show "School Daze With Greg Kinnear."

Returning to the States for a college education, he attended the
University of Arizona in Tucson, where he graduated in 1985 with a degree
in broadcast journalism. From Arizona he headed out to Los Angeles, where
he landed his first job as a marketing assistant with Empire
Entertainment. Following this job he auditioned to be an MTV VJ, but
failed and became a host and on-location reporter for the channel. When
that job went under he had bit parts on such television shows as "L.A.
Law" (1986) and "Life Goes On" (1989). He would later become the creator,
co-executive producer, and host of "Best of the Worst" (1991), which aired
from 1990 to 1991. He then received his breakthrough when he became the
first host of "Talk Soup" (1991) until 1994, when he left the show for the
NBC late-night talk show, "Later with Greg Kinnear" (1994). It was also in
1994 that Kinnear had his first big screen role, as a talk show host yet
again in the Damon Wayans comedy Blankman (1994). In 1995 he won the part
of the David Larrabee in Sydney Pollack's remake of Billy Wilder's 1954
classic Sabrina (1995). He then received the lead role in the 1996 comedy
Dear God (1996). In 1997, Greg was cast in James L. Brooks's blockbuster
comedy drama As Good as It Gets (1997), for which he received an Oscar
nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His next film, the romantic comedy A
Smile Like Yours (1997), had him starring opposite Lauren Holly as part of
a couple trying to have a baby. The film met with lukewarm reviews and a
low box office, but his next film, You've Got Mail (1998), struck gold. He
played Meg Ryan's significant other, a newspaper columnist wholly unlike
what was to be his next character, that of Captain Amazing in the 1999
summer action film Mystery Men (1999). His more recent films include
Someone Like You... (2001), thriller Godsend(2004), box-office winner
Robots(2005), and Oscar winner, Little Miss Sunshine(2006).

Has two daughters, Lily Katherine born in September 2003, and Audrey Mae,
on June 13, 2006.