Travis Fine

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Travis Lane Fine (born June 26, 1968 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his roles on Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.


Short Biography

Travis Fine is the second son of Maxine Makover and Terry Fine, a professional golfer. 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 15, and has lived in that area since.

On Valentine’s Day, 1993, Travis 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 1994 and 2004.


Career

Travis 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 Mozart) – 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. [1]

In 1989, Travis 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 – quite a challenge for any actor, but he skilfully pulled it off. Sadly, the character was short-changed by the producers, and 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. 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. [2]

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). [3]

In 2002, Travis 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. [4]


Notes and references

  1. The Theatre – the filmography page at Vaya Con Dios, Ike! The Travis Fine Web Site
  2. Travis Fine at the IMDb
  3. Selling to Hollywood 1998 at web.archive.org captured February 21, 1999; original web site is no longer available
  4. The Travis Fine Message Board – post entitled "Thanks!" submitted by Travis Fine on January 2, 2004


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