Chris Pratt - Wikipedia

Christopher Michael Pratt[1][2] was born in the city of Virginia, Minnesota, on June 21, 1979.[3][4] His mother, Kathleen Louise "Kathy" (née Indahl), worked at a Safeway supermarket, while his father, Daniel Clifton Pratt, held various jobs, including mining and home remodeling.[5][6][7] He has two older siblings: a sister, Angie, and a brother, Daniel "Cully" Pratt.[8][9] Pratt has cited his brother Cully as one of his biggest influences and credits him as the reason he started acting.[10] When Pratt was two or three years old, his father uprooted the family to Anchorage, Alaska, where they lived for the next few years.[6][11][12] Concerned that raising children in Alaska was too dangerous due to the presence of bears, the family entered a period of instability, relocating between twenty homes across the United States in search of job opportunities.[13]

When Pratt was six or seven years old, the family eventually settled in the Seattle suburb of Lake Stevens, Washington.[13][14] In an interview with The Huffington Post, Pratt recalled a family vacation on a cruise where he and his brother entered a dance competition, earning him a third-place prize.[15][16] As a child, he frequently danced to hip-hop music, the dance drama film Saturday Night Fever (1977), and Michael Jackson.[15] Pratt was a frequent reader of comic books, having once won $300 in a bingo tournament and spending it all on comics.[17][18] He once shared with the Los Angeles Times that his home featured a lot of art, saying, "I would try to copy these exceptional artists who could just draw male and female figures", and recalled that the walls were covered in comic book-style murals.[19] As a teenager, Pratt showed an interest in music, listening to pop musicians like the Beatles and rappers like Tupac Shakur and Mos Def; he has cited Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash as his biggest musical influences.[20] Around this time he began playing the guitar.[21]

Pratt finished fifth in a state wrestling tournament during high school and competed in shot put on the track and field team.[5][22][23] Reflecting on that time, he recalled telling his wrestling coach, "I don't know what I want to do, but I know I'll be famous and I'll make a shit ton of money".[24] He added, "I had no idea how. I'd done nothing proactive".[25] He graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1997.[26] Pratt dropped out of community college midway through his first semester and took on various jobs, including selling discount tickets and briefly working as a daytime stripper.[27] He eventually found himself homeless in Maui, Hawaii, living out of a van and a tent on the beach.[28][29] Retrospectively, he told The Independent, "It's a pretty awesome place to be homeless. We just drank and smoked weed and worked minimal hours [...] just enough to cover gas, food, and fishing supplies".[30] While in Maui, he also worked with the Christian missionary group Jews for Jesus.[31]