Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke
Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director. He starred
as detective Lester Freamon and Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux in the
David Simon HBO dramas, The Wire and Treme, Alonzo Quinn in the CBS
crime drama Person of Interest, Isaiah Page in The Divide, and Otis in
Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (2020).Peters was born Peter Clarke, the
second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New
Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a
school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions
to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight
Morrow High School in 1970.Shortly before he left the United States,
Peters was arrested for obstructing police lines after an anti-Vietnam
war demonstration but was cleared. He later said of this experience:
"It made me more angry than anything else, because what I experienced
was how impotent you could be as an American citizen."
Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director. He starred
as detective Lester Freamon and Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux in the
David Simon HBO dramas, The Wire and Treme, Alonzo Quinn in the CBS
crime drama Person of Interest, Isaiah Page in The Divide, and Otis in
Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (2020).Peters was born Peter Clarke, the
second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New
Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a
school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions
to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight
Morrow High School in 1970.Shortly before he left the United States,
Peters was arrested for obstructing police lines after an anti-Vietnam
war demonstration but was cleared. He later said of this experience:
"It made me more angry than anything else, because what I experienced
was how impotent you could be as an American citizen."
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