Travis Fine
Encyclopedia
Travis Lane Fine is an American
actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his roles in Girl, Interrupted
and The Young Riders
.
, Georgia
, the second son of Maxine Parker Makover and Terry Fine, a professional golf
er. He has one older brother, Todd, and one younger sister, Kelly. His parents divorced when he was six. He was raised in Hickory Flat
and Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Los Angeles
, California
when he was fifteen, and has lived in that area since. In 1986, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School
in Beverly Hills, California
.He attended Pitzer Collage in Claremont, CA. for 1 year.
On Valentine's Day
, 1993, Fine married Jessica Resnick, but the couple divorced in 1995. On June 29, 2002, he married his present wife, Kristine Fine (b. Hostetter). He has two daughters born in 1994 and 2004, and a son born in 2007.
) – some of them in Atlanta, some at the Children's Theatre Company
in Minneapolis
and the last two at the Beverly Hills High School
. His on-screen debut came at the age of twelve in A Time for Miracles
starring Bonanza
s Lorne Greene
.
In 1989, Fine got his big break when he landed the role as mute and bald Pony Express
rider Ike McSwain on ABC
's new Western series The Young Riders
, also starring Anthony Zerbe
, Brett Cullen
, Melissa Leo
, Ty Miller
, Josh Brolin
, Stephen Baldwin
, Yvonne Suhor
, and Gregg Rainwater
. Because of his character’s muteness, Fine had to play on facial expressions and body language rather than dialog. Travis Fine left the show early in the third and last season, when Ike was killed trying to protect the girl that he loved (portrayed by guest actress Kelli Williams
[Medical Investigation, The Practice
]).
Since his departure from The Young Riders, Travis Fine has guest-starred on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
, Family Law
, The Lazarus Man
, JAG
, Quantum Leap, and Vengeance Unlimited
. He has appeared on the silver screen in highly acclaimed and award-winning movies like The Thin Red Line
and Girl, Interrupted
, as well as the horror film Child's Play 3
. He has also starred in numerous TV movies and miniseries, including The President's Man, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story, Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (playing Erik Menendez), and Cruel Doubt
.
Upon selling his first screenplay, The Lords of the Sea (written in 1994), to Howard Koch, Jr., Travis Fine was hired to write episodes for Diagnosis: Murder
and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
. In 1996, he attended the 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 movie, The Others (a high school comedy).
In 2002, Fine more or less retired from the entertainment industry pursuing a new career in aviation, although, in his own words, he "ha[s] not ruled out doing more acting", and he has continued writing screenplays.
In the fall of 2009, Fine wrote, produced and directed "The Space Between", starring Melissa Leo, AnnaSophia Robb, Brad William Henke and Phillip Rhys.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his roles in Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (film)
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teenager's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Brittany Murphy, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, with Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance....
and The Young Riders
The Young Riders
The Young Riders is an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War...
.
Personal life
Fine was born in AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, the second son of Maxine Parker Makover and Terry Fine, a professional golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
er. He has one older brother, Todd, and one younger sister, Kelly. His parents divorced when he was six. He was raised in Hickory Flat
Hickory Flat, Georgia
Hickory Flat is an unincorporated community in southeastern Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The center of the community is marked by a four-way stoplight at the intersection of Georgia State Highway 140 and East Cherokee Drive. Once a sparse town with more land per acre than people per...
and Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
when he was fifteen, and has lived in that area since. In 1986, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. Beverly is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District and located on on the west side of Beverly Hills, at the...
in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...
.He attended Pitzer Collage in Claremont, CA. for 1 year.
On Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496...
, 1993, Fine married Jessica Resnick, but the couple divorced in 1995. On June 29, 2002, he married his present wife, Kristine Fine (b. Hostetter). He has two daughters born in 1994 and 2004, and a son born in 2007.
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 numerous theatre productions, including A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Oliver (Twist), Macbeth, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, On Golden Pond, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas, Tom Sawyer, Grease, and Amadeus (in which he played MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
) – some of them in Atlanta, some at the Children's Theatre Company
Children's Theatre Company
The Children's Theatre Company is a regional theatre established in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota specializing in plays for families and young audiences and the recipient of a 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre...
in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
and the last two at the Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School
Beverly Hills High School is the only major public high school in Beverly Hills, California. Beverly is part of the Beverly Hills Unified School District and located on on the west side of Beverly Hills, at the...
. His on-screen debut came at the age of twelve in A Time for Miracles
A Time for Miracles
A Time For Miracles is a 1980 made for TV film chronicling the life story of America's first native born saint, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. It was produced by ABC Circle Films for the American Broadcasting Company and telecast December 21, 1980 as a Christmas special. The film was created by...
starring Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
s Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...
.
In 1989, Fine got his big break when he landed the role as mute and bald Pony Express
Pony Express
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861...
rider Ike McSwain on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's new Western series The Young Riders
The Young Riders
The Young Riders is an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War...
, also starring Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; Milton Krest in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill;...
, Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen
Peter Brett Cullen is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures and television programs. Early in 2007, he was cast as the role of an estranged father to one of the American football players, Tim Riggins , in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights.Cullen was born in Houston,...
, Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo , is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997...
, Ty Miller
Ty Miller
Ty Wesley Miller is an American actor, probably most well known for his role as The Kid on The Young Riders, which ran for three seasons...
, Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin
Josh James Brolin is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and True Grit.-Early life:...
, Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Andrew Baldwin is an American actor, director, producer and author. One of the Baldwin brothers, he is known for his roles as William F. Cody in the western show The Young Riders and as Stuart in the movie Threesome...
, Yvonne Suhor
Yvonne Suhor
Yvonne Suhor is an American actress, partly of Croatian descent. She has four brothers and six sisters. She graduated from Illinois State University in 1985, and later received her MFA from the University of Southern California. Suhor currently runs her own in Orlando, Florida, teaching Core Film...
, and Gregg Rainwater
Gregg Rainwater
Gregg Andrew Rainwater is an American actor of Osage, Cherokee, Irish, and Filipino descent, who is most well known for his role as half Kiowa Buck Cross on The Young Riders ....
. Because of his character’s muteness, Fine had to play on facial expressions and body language rather than dialog. Travis Fine left the show early in the third and last season, when Ike was killed trying to protect the girl that he loved (portrayed by guest actress Kelli Williams
Kelli Williams
Kelli Renee Williams is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lindsay Dole on the Legal drama The Practice and as psychologist and deception expert Dr. Gillian Foster on Lie to Me....
[Medical Investigation, The Practice
The Practice
The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the successful and lighter spin-off series Boston...
]).
Since his departure from The Young Riders, Travis Fine has guest-starred on such shows as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
, Family Law
Family Law (TV series)
Family Law is a television drama starring Kathleen Quinlan as divorced lawyer Lynn Holt, who attempted to start her own law firm after her lawyer husband took all their old clients...
, The Lazarus Man
The Lazarus Man
The Lazarus Man was a Western television series produced by Castle Rock Entertainment which first aired on January 20, 1996, and ended on November 9, 1996.-Production:...
, JAG
JAG (TV series)
JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
, Quantum Leap, and Vengeance Unlimited
Vengeance Unlimited
Vengeance Unlimited was a TV series broadcasted during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen as Mr. Chapel, a mysterious and pragmatic character keen on serving justice to those who have been ignored by the law...
. He has appeared on the silver screen in highly acclaimed and award-winning movies like The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...
and Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (film)
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teenager's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Brittany Murphy, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, with Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance....
, as well as the horror film Child's Play 3
Child's Play 3
Child's Play 3, also known as Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking, is a 1991 horror film. It is the third installment in the Child's Play series with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky...
. He has also starred in numerous TV movies and miniseries, including The President's Man, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story, Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (playing Erik Menendez), and Cruel Doubt
Cruel Doubt
Cruel Doubt is a 1992 television movie starring Blythe Danner and Matt McGrath. The film was first broadcast as a two-part miniseries on NBC in the United States and CTV in Canada on May 17 and May 19, 1992....
.
Upon selling his first screenplay, The Lords of the Sea (written in 1994), to Howard Koch, Jr., Travis Fine was hired to write episodes for Diagnosis: Murder
Diagnosis: Murder
Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...
and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American post-Civil War western/drama series created by Beth Sullivan. Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, played by Jane Seymour, left Boston in search of adventure. She goes to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she establishes herself as doctor/adviser.The show ran on CBS...
. In 1996, he attended the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy - School of Film and Acting is a film school andacting school based in New York City, Universal City, California, USA and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. NYFA offers short-term film-making and acting courses, as well as one- and two-year conservatory and Master of Fine Arts...
, where he wrote, directed and produced several short films. A year later, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature length movie, The Others (a high school comedy).
In 2002, Fine more or less retired from the entertainment industry pursuing a new career in aviation, although, in his own words, he "ha[s] not ruled out doing more acting", and he has continued writing screenplays.
In the fall of 2009, Fine wrote, produced and directed "The Space Between", starring Melissa Leo, AnnaSophia Robb, Brad William Henke and Phillip Rhys.