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Shatner dilahirkan di Montreal, Kanada. Beliau anak kepada kepada Joseph Shatner, seorang pengilang baju, dan Anna Garmaise. Semua empat datuk dan nenek Shatner adalah keturunan Yahudi Eropah Barat; his paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, shortened the family name to "Shatner".  He attended Willingdon Elementary School, in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec, and earned in 1952 a Bachelor's degree in commerce from Montreal's McGill University, the Student Union building of which was renamed The Shatner Building in 1993 following a referendum by the Student Union. Although used by many students, the name is not officially recognized by the university, which still refers to the building as University Centre.

Kerja drama, filem, dan televisyen awal

Trained as a classical Shakespearean actor, Shatner performed at the Shakespearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. He played a range of Shakespearean roles at the Stratford Festival in productions that included Shakespeare's Henry V and Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great. Shatner made his Broadway debut in the latter. In 1954, he was cast as "Ranger Bill" on the Canadian version of the Howdy Doody Show.

Though his official movie debut was in the 1951 Canadian film entitled The Butler's Night Off, Shatner's first feature role came in the 1958 MGM film The Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner, in which he starred as the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, Alexei.  In 1959, he received decent reviews when he took on the role of Robert Lomax in the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong.  In 1961 he starred in the Broadway play "A Shot in the Dark" opposite Julie Harris and directed by Harold Clurman.  Walter Matthau and Gene Saks were also featured in this play (in which there was no Inspector Clouseau character).

In 1962 he starred in Roger Corman's award-winning movie The Intruder.  He also appeared in the Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremberg and two episodes of the acclaimed science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone. There was also an episode for The Outer Limits.  Shatner guest-starred in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in an episode that also featured Leonard Nimoy, with whom Shatner later would be paired in Star Trek.  Shatner also starred in the 1965 Gothic horror film Incubus, the second feature-length movie ever made with all dialogue spoken in the constructed language Esperanto.