William Petersen

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William Petersen filming CSI (2004)

William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953 in Evanston , Illinois ) is an American theater, film, television and video game actor , film entrepreneur, theater director and producer . He became known for his portrayal of Will Graham in Manhunter - Red Dragon and Gil Grissom in CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators .

Life

Petersen was born in 1953 in the city of Evanston, Illinois, but grew up in Boise , Idaho . His ancestors are fourth-generation Americans of Danish and German descent, and he is the youngest of six children. Petersen left the family when he was 15 and moved in with one of his brothers. In 1974 he moved to Spain with his future wife , where he married and had a daughter. In 1975 he graduated from Idaho State University on an athletic scholarship and later moved to Chicago , where he joined the Steppenwolf Theater Company . In 1979 he founded his own theater company in Chicago.

After small roles, Petersen took on the lead roles in 1985 in the successes Living and Dying in LA and Manhunter - Red Dragon . The latter (also known as Blood Moon ) is the first film adaptation of a Hannibal Lecter novel by Thomas Harris . The ability to be action - hero to establish in the 1980s, he missed when he was a tender in Oliver Stone's Vietnam -Drama platoon refused (1986). He would have been separated from his family for a long time and would have had to prepare for the shooting with military training. In 1990 he took on the role of Joseph P. Kennedy in The Kennedys of Massachusetts , and in 1998 he portrayed John F. Kennedy in Frank, Dean & Sammy Do It through the Rat Pack .

This was followed by small roles in films and television series, until in 2000 he took on the lead role in the extremely successful CBS series CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators , which he later co-produced. In the role of the charismatic chief investigator Gilbert "Gil" Grissom , his popularity rose immensely, in 2004 he was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Series Leading Actor - Drama , in 2005 he and his CSI team received the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance the actor in a television series.

In some 2007 episodes of CSI: The perpetrators on the trail was missing William Petersen because he had a five-week appearance in the play Dublin Carol as John Plunkett . Petersen takes advantage of the popularity of its CSI also to the position of -Figur forensic science to improve in the US justice system and the financial provision of crime labs, but he pleaded on 15 May 2001 even before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate .

Petersen earned around $ 500,000 for each CSI episode in 2007 and was thus at times the highest-paid series actor. From the eleventh episode of the ninth season, he was no longer active as a regular actor at CSI . However, he was still executive producer on the series and later made guest appearances.

Petersen has a daughter born in 1975 from his first divorced marriage from 1974 to 1981 with Joanne Brady, through whom he already has two grandchildren. In his second marriage, he has been married to high school teacher Gina Cirone since 2003, both of whom became parents of twins in 2011 through a surrogate mother . Petersen has his own production company called High Horse .

On February 3, 2009, he got a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : William Petersen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The highest paid TV series stars . Seitenblicke.at . July 27, 2007. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved on August 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ Lenka Hladikova: CSI: William Petersen is the father of twins . Serienjunkies.de . August 24, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, William Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater, film, television, and video game actor, film entrepreneur, theater director, and producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston , Illinois