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William Louis Petersen Wiki Biography

• William Louis Petersen was born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois, USA, to parents of Danish, French, and German ancestry. 
• He is an actor and producer best known for his roles in the television series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000 – 2009, 2011 – 2013) and feature films “Young Guns II” (1990), “Fear” (1996), and “The Skulls” (2000), among others. 
• Since 1976, William Petersen has worked in the entertainment industry. 
• What is William Petersen’s net worth? 
• According to sources, as of 2021 data, his overall wealth is estimated to be worth up to $35 million. 
• According to reports, he was paid $500,000 per episode of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” 
• To begin, Petersen grew up as the youngest of six children in Boise, Idaho. 
• Petersen left his family when he was 15 years old and moved in with one of his brothers. 
• After a string of minor roles, Petersen landed the lead role in the 1985 film “To Live and Die in L.A.” (1985). 
• He passed up an opportunity to establish himself as an action hero in the 1980s when he turned down a part in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam drama “Platoon” (1986). 
• This was followed by increasingly minor roles in films and television series until he starred in Anthony E. Zuiker’s highly successful CBS series “CSI: The Crime Scene Investigation” for nearly ten years straight beginning in 2000, later co-producing the aforementioned series. 
• His popularity skyrocketed after he was cast as the charismatic chief investigator Gilbert Grissom, and in 2004, he was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes in the category – Best Actor TV Series Drama, as well as Emmy and Satellite Awards. 
• Finally, in the actor’s personal life, he married Joanne Brady in 1974, and they had a daughter before divorcing in 1981. 
• William married Gina Cirone for the second time in 2003. 
• A surrogate mother delivered twins to the family in 2011. 
• Petersen has two grandchildren as well. 
• Wikipedia “The Kennedys of Massachusetts” IMDB (1990) $35,000,000 1953 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Actors and actresses Petersen, Arthur Edward Best Actor in a TV Series Drama for the Golden Globes (2004) Kelly High School, Billy Bishop Evanston Fear – Danish American Emmy Award (1996) 21st of February Filmmaker Gina Cirone is a woman from Italy. 
• Gina Cirone is a woman from Italy (m. 
• 2003) Idaho State University, Helen June Hoene, Illinois Brady, Joanne Joanne Brady (1974–1981) was a model and actress. 
• Platoon Maite Petersen (1986) Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Television Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series (2005) The Beast, Senior Television Producer (1996) The Skulls are a group of people who are obsessed with skulls (2000) To Live and Die in Los Angeles (1985) The United States of America Walk of Fame is located in Hollywood, California (2009) Petersen, William L. Peterson, William L. Petersen, William Louis Petersen, William Petersen, William Earnings Peterson, William Young Guns II is the sequel to the film Young Guns (1990) 

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William Louis Petersen Quotes

• I’m a huge “Membership First” guy. It seems to me that all of the artists in all of the unions and guilds are getting screwed. What we’re losing in the SAG contract is the middle class — those who want to be actors and won’t make much money but want to stick with it anyway. The studios and companies, meanwhile, get to have it both ways. They’ve got their $100 million movies where they pay Brad and Tom $20 million and everyone else works for scale. Then those who make the indie movies don’t pay anybody anything. You’re supposed to make 28 cents for the honor of working with Gus Van Sant. But the company behind, say, “Milk,” winds up making a ton. The whole thing is a shell game, a con, and the actors are the ones who wind up getting jobbed.
• After Manhunter (1986) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), all these cop movies came my way, but they weren’t any good, so I didn’t do them. Then, there was talk about my doing Platoon (1986), but I didn’t want to sit in a ditch in the Philippines for eight weeks for no money. Instead, I did an HBO baseball movie for more money and more fun, and I got to play ball. I enjoy watching great movies like Platoon (1986), but I don’t have to be in them. I never fell in love with movies. I didn’t want to spend all that time and effort. I’ve had it pretty good. I’ve had it my own way.
• (On his life before his 2nd marriage) When I was younger, women wanted to sleep with me because of whatever movie or play they saw me in, and for about 15 years I certainly took advantage of that more often than not. I got married to my wife, Gina, last summer. I’d been working on the marriage thing with her, trying to get to a place where that was a good thing as opposed to a bad thing. Fidelity was hard when I was younger, but with maturity, I got to a mindset of, What’s with all this running around to get girls? Now for me, it’s the old case of, Why go out for a hamburger when I’ve got steak at home?
• (On Las Vegas) The only good thing about Vegas is watching horse races and football games and being able to throw some money down on them. I don’t play the tables, because they’re just a sucker’s game. Actually, the whole thing is a sucker’s game. I’m not a huge Vegas fan, but it’s the perfect milieu for the show. Everyone who goes there, even if they’re old ladies from a Bible group in Mississippi, they go there to stick nickels into slots and feel a little dirty and dark. Shit happens when you get into that world. Guys lose their wives and money, women end up deciding to stay and become strippers. It’s the dirty playground for the Darth Vader in all of us.
• After Manhunter (1986), I had to actually kill off the character. I cut off most of my hair and dyed it blonde. I changed my whole look just to get rid of him.
• I was only 21, and there were many things I didn’t know. I was trying to be a man and I wasn’t ready for it. – on being married at a young age
• The greatest thing that ever happened to me in terms of my acting was the audition for To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). After I read, William Friedkin put down the script and said, “You got the part”. I really thought it was a joke. I went back to my hotel room and took a bath and they called and wanted to make a deal. I still didn’t believe it.
• “Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I’ll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.” (on what he plans to do after “CSI”)
• “It took me two months to get that part. I mean, who the hell was I? I wasn’t going to sell that picture” – on his role as “Will Graham” in Manhunter (1986).
• “Their argument was, Everybody else is going to start copying the show, so why not us? My attitude was, Well, then let everybody else do it. Don’t rip yourself off.” (On the network and producers’ decision to create the CSI spin-off series, CSI: Miami (2002)).
• (On seeing the Marlon Brando movie, Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) (aka “Last Tango in Paris”) “It was the first time that I understood that acting was an art form. It was not Clint Eastwood on a horse, Bob Hope in a road movie. It was not Don Knotts in The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). These are favorite movies of mine, too. But when I sat in “Last Tango in Paris”, the lightbulb went on. To this day, Brando is the one I want to meet, and the one I’m terrified to meet”.

William Louis Petersen Important Facts

• $500,000 /episode (2007- 08)
• His name originates from the Germanic name Willahelm, which was composed of the elements will “will, desire” and helm “helmet, protection”.
• William’s paternal grandfather, Jurgen Petersen, was born in Germany, to Danish parents, Andreas Christian Petersen and Anna Margaretha Ericksen. William’s paternal grandmother, Lizzie Ricksher, was of German and French ancestry, while both of William’s maternal grandparents, Arthur Cornelius Hoene and Katherine Vera Vollmar, were of German descent.
• The actor who dubs his voice in Czech, Vladislav Benes, is also the Czech dubbing voice of Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere, and Noah Wyle.
• Has played the roles of both father and son, Joseph P. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. Played Joseph P. Kennedy in The Kennedys of Massachusetts. Played John F. Kennedy in Rat Pack.
• Lived for a time with Amy Morton.
• A longtime friend of Gary Cole.
• Has a second grandson named Indigo August, born in August 2009?
• He was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “Blackbird” at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “The Night of the Iguana” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was awarded the 1984 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “In the Belly of the Beast” at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• He was nominated for a 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “The Tooth of Crime” at the Remains Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• Shares his birthday with Larry Drake, who appeared with him in The Beast (1996).
• He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois, since 2008.
• Has been portrayed in several CSI games.
• Appears in The Skulls (2000) with Hill Harper. Harper currently co-stars in CSI: NY (2004), the spin-off of Petersen’s series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
• Has performed at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
• Turned down a major part in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995).
• Owns the rights of James Ellroy’s crime novel “Clandestine”.
• An avid Chicago Cubs fan, he sings “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field every year and also narrated the documentary Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy (2001) about Wrigley Field.
• Was 33 years old when Manhunter (1986) was released. When the film’s remake, Red Dragon (2002), was released, his Will Graham successor, Edward Norton, was also 33 years old.
• Played Missy Crider’s father in the miniseries The Beast (1996). Crider later appeared in the second-season premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
• Because his role in Manhunter (1986) was so emotionally exhausting, he did everything he could to rid himself of the Will Graham character after filming was completed. This included cutting his hair and dyeing it blonde, and shaving off his beard.
• Declined the offer to produce CSI: Miami (2002), the spin-off of his series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
• Has played two characters with the surname “Walker.” He played Gideon Walker in Return to Lonesome Dove (1993) and Steve Walker in Fear (1996).
• Co-presented an award at the 2004 Emmys with Dennis Franz, whose former NYPD Blue (1993) co-star, David Caruso, stars in CSI: Miami (2002), the spin-off of Petersen’s series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
• Was cast in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) after Gary Sinise declined the part. Sinise became the star of CSI: NY (2004), which is the spin-off of Petersen’s series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
• Calls Long Gone (1987) the most fun he ever had making a movie. He made it instead of appearing in Platoon (1986).
• Was offered a role in Platoon (1986), but turned it down because it was a low-paying job. The prospect of going to the Philippines for weeks of training before filming did not appeal to him either.
• One CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) plotline had him pursuing an insane killer played by Tom Noonan, who also played the titular insane killer in Manhunter (1986).
• He has one grandchild named Mazrik William (born October 2003).
• He has a production company called High Horse (with friend & fellow CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) producer Cynthia Chvatal).
• Started at Idaho State University on a football scholarship, where he found acting.
• In March 2002, he became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Gina Cirone, a biology teacher. The two married in Petrignano, Italy, in 2003.
• Attended the renowned Steppenwolf Company.
• Testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on increased funding for crime labs.
• Daughter named Maite Nerea, born in 1975, in Mondragón (País Vasco, Spain).
• Attended Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho. He wears his old football jersey from that school in most of his movies.

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