1. William Louis Petersen was born on February 21,1953 and is an American actor.
26 Facts About William Petersen
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William Petersen is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS drama thriller series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 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.
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William Petersen reprised his role as Gil Grissom in the sequel CSI: Vegas, which premiered on October 6,2021.
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William Petersen graduated from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, in 1972.
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William Petersen was accepted to Idaho State University on a football scholarship.
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William Petersen 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.
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William Petersen returned to Idaho with the intention of being an actor.
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William Petersen became active in the theater and earned his Actors' Equity card.
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William Petersen 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 included other prominent Chicago actors Gary Cole and Ted Levine.
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William Petersen made his film debut with a bit part in Thief, directed by Michael Mann.
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William Petersen shaved off his beard, cut his hair, and bleached it blond.
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William Petersen declined a part in Oliver Stone's Platoon, as it would have kept him in the Philippines, away from his family.
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William Petersen was offered the role of Henry Hill in the film Goodfellas, but turned it down.
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An expose about the film in the May 2015 issue of Playboy claims that William Petersen turned down the audition altogether.
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Also in 1990, William Petersen portrayed the infamous Patrick Floyd "Pat" Garrett in Young Guns II.
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In 1993, William Petersen appeared in a CBS TV miniseries, Return to Lonesome Dove, as former Ranger Gideon Walker.
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William Petersen played Steven Walker, a father who stops at nothing to break up the relationship between his daughter and her vicious boyfriend in Fear.
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William Petersen played Governor Jack Hathaway, an unscrupulous candidate for vice president following the death of the incumbent, in The Contender in 2000.
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William Petersen appeared uncredited in the noir thriller Mulholland Falls as a character who finds himself on the violent receiving end of a Los Angeles police squad's tactics.
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William Petersen took a break from CSI in 2006 to appear in a five-week run of the Trinity Repertory Company production of Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson, in Providence, Rhode Island.
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On July 15,2008, the Associated Press reported that William Petersen was leaving the show as a regular following Season 9's tenth episode in order to pursue more stage-acting opportunities, but that he might return for guest spots.
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William Petersen reprised his role of Gil Grissom in the eleventh-season episode "The Two Mrs Grissoms".
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In February 2020, William Petersen was announced to return for a CSI sequel series along with Jorja Fox, before the series was picked up as CSI: Vegas.
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In June 2003, William Petersen married his longtime girlfriend Gina Cirone.
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William Petersen was experiencing symptoms of exhaustion after 12 weeks of shooting, and released from the facility soon after.
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On February 3,2009, William Petersen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.