Peter Vack

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Peter Vack, 2016

Peter Vack , actually Peter S. Brown (born September 19, 1986 in West Village , New York City ) is an American actor , screenwriter , director and producer . He is best known for his role as Alex Merriweather in the Amazon Instant Video series Mozart in the Jungle (since 2014).

Life

Vack was born in the West Village. His parents are Jane (nee Spivack) and Ronald Farrar Brown, a film producer and writer. His younger sister Betsey is also an actress and writer. Vack grew up in New York. He attended Riverdale Country School and Professional Children's School. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in theater.

Vack made his acting debut in the short film Dear Diary (1996), which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film . He was guest actor in individual episodes of the television series Hope & Faith (2004), Third Watch (2004), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005), Ghost Whisperer (2009) and Cold Case (2010). Also in 2010 he played the role of "Josh" in the film Consent , directed by his father. His sister Betsey was in the film as "Samantha" and Troian Bellisario as "Amanda".

From 2011 until his dismissal the following year, he played Jason Strider in the short-lived MTV television series I Just Want My Pants Back . Since 2014 he has appeared as Alex Merriweather in the Amazon Instant Video series Mozart in the Jungle , alongside Malcolm McDowell , Lola Kirke and Bernadette Peters .

Vack is a founding member of the theater group "The Casitas Gruppe" and co-founder of the theater project "Shakespeare on the Subway".

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 1996: Dear Diary (short film)
  • 1997: A Bedtime Story (short film)
  • 2005: A Perfect Fit
  • 2006: The Treatment
  • 2006: Love / Death / Cobain (short film)
  • 2010: Consent
  • 2011: A November (short film, also screenplay)
  • 2011: God Don't Make The Laws
  • 2012: Commentary
  • 2012: Kiss of the Damned
  • 2013: CBGB
  • 2013: Send (writer, director and producer)
  • 2013: A Letter Home (short film)
  • 2013: How to Make it to the Promised Land (short film)
  • 2014: Fort Tilden
  • 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
  • 2014: Swelter
  • 2015: 6 years
  • 2015: Surf Noir (short film)
  • 2015: The Intern
  • 2019: Brittany Runs a Marathon
  • 2019: Someone Great

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Video games

Awards and nominations

  • 2010: New York VisionFest Award in the category "Breakthrough Performance" for Consent
  • 2014: SXSW Grand Jury Award in the “Narrative Short” category for Send

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Emma Brown: Peter Vack, in Focus. In: Interview Magazine. December 2014, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ You Must Know: Peter Vack. Entertainment Tonight (Yahoo!), April 5, 2012, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Peter Vack Has One Simple Request. In: Interview Magazine. February 2, 2012, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ 'Dear Diary': How It Got an Oscar Nod. In: Los Angeles Times. March 22, 1997, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ron Farrar Brown. consentmovie.com, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  6. ^ Peter Vack pictures, bio, movies. (No longer available online.) Web.poptower.com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.poptower.com
personal data
SURNAME Vack, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Peter S. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH West Village , New York City