William Petersen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

William Petersen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor

and producer. He is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS

drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000â€"2015), for which

he won a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden

Globe Award; he was further nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards

as a producer of the show.He also starred in the films To Live and Die

in L.A. (1985), Manhunter (1986), Young Guns II (1990), Fear (1996),

The Contender (2000), Detachment (2011), and Seeking a Friend for the

End of the World (2012).Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois, the

youngest of six children of June (née Hoene; 1909â€"2006) and Arthur

Edward Petersen (1901â€"2004), who worked in the furniture business.

Of Danish and German descent, he was raised in the Roman Catholic

faith of his mother. He has two brothers, Arthur Jr. and Robert, and

three sisters, Anne, Mary Kay, and Elizabeth.He graduated from Bishop

Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, in 1972. He was accepted to Idaho

State University on a football scholarship. While at Idaho State,

Petersen took an acting course, which changed the direction of his

life. He left school along with his wife, Joanne, in 1974, and

followed a drama professor to the Basque country, where he studied as

a Shakespearean actor. Petersen was interested in Basque culture: He

studied the Basque language and gave his daughter the Basque name

"Maite Nerea" ("My Beloved"); she was born in Arrasate/Mondragón in

1975. Petersen returned to Idaho with the intention of being an actor.

Not wanting to work a nonacting job in Idaho, he returned to the

Chicago area, living with relatives. He became active in the theater

and earned his Actors' Equity card. He performed with the Steppenwolf

Theatre Company, of which he has been an ensemble member since 2008,

and was a co-founder of the Remains Theater Ensemble, which also

included other prominent Chicago actors Gary Cole and Ted Levine.
William Petersen Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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