Pine began his professional acting career
Off-Broadway, then in 1968 appeared as Fop in
Cyrano de Bergerac at the
Vivian Beaumont Theater. A founding member of the avant-garde theater company the Manhattan Project, he appeared in its 1968 production of
Alice in Wonderland, directed by
Andre Gregory. He has performed in
Louis Malle's
Vanya on 42nd Street and
Woody Allen's
Celebrity,
Small Time Crooks, and
Melinda and Melinda, among other films. Pine appears in the book
Are You Dave Gorman? as the first actor the writer encounters to have played a fictional Dave Gorman (in
The Ice Storm). In both
The Royal Tenenbaums and
The Door in the Floor, he appears as a
Charlie Rose-type interviewer, conducting a one-on-one interview in a dark studio. From 1997 to 1999, Pine portrayed Barry Shire on
All My Children. ==Personal life==