SHORT PROFILE
Name: Christopher Michael Pratt
DOB: 21 June 1979
Place of birth: Virginia, Minnesota, USA
Occupation: Actor
Mr. Pratt, did you have any nicknames growing up?
Monkey boy and rat boy. I think both of them came from my dad. Rat boy because I had huge ears and teeth, the same ears and teeth as I have now, but on a tiny little pinhead. My head didn’t really grow until much later and I looked like a rat. Monkey boy… I don’t know where that came from, but my best friend and everybody call me monkey boy.
What do your parents do?
My mom is a checker at a grocery store called Safeway. My dad is dead, but he was a construction guy. He worked hard, he was a worker. Worked in the mines and stuff. It’s a good place to come from. You know the value of money. I remember as a kid we had so little money that if someone asked me if I read comic books, I’d be like, “No! Comic books are expensive.” And they’d be like, “What do you mean? They are three bucks.” But if you don’t have three bucks then that is expensive! I know what it is like to not ask for anything. Like, just being smart enough to not even ask. What is the point? Eventually you stop asking
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