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William L. Petersen
Birth at
21 February 1953
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The famous American actor and producer William L. Petersen was born on February 21, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He was the sixth child in a typical U.S. family with Danish-American paternal roots and German-American mothers. Parents were engaged in the furniture business, which allowed them to give their children a decent education. William L. Petersen, after graduating from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, was admitted to Idaho State University in 1972. Already there he began to attend
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The famous American actor and producer William L. Petersen was born on February 21, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He was the sixth child in a typical U.S. family with Danish-American paternal roots and German-American mothers. Parents were engaged in the furniture business, which allowed them to give their children a decent education. William L. Petersen, after graduating from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho, was admitted to Idaho State University in 1972. Already there he began to attend acting courses and became interested in this art. At the call of heart and soul, he went for his favorite university professor to the north of Spain to the Basque Country, where he studied at the acting Shakespeare School. Here William L. Petersen became interested in Basque culture and studied the language of the Basques and Eusker.
After returning to America, William L. Petersen began to play first in the theaters of Chicago, where he received an acting card “Equity”, then began to work in cinema. One of them was his role in the film “Hunter of people” (1986). In total, the actor starred in more than forty films and television series. Many of them deservedly received the highest awards of the most prestigious film and television festivals.
Since the 90s of the last century, William L. Petersen participated in the creation of films not only as an actor, but also as their producer. These are his works “Unrestrained Promises” (1991) and the television film “Don’t Surrender” (1992). And
TV series "C.S.I." Crime scene” (2000-2010), in the creation of which William L. Petersen participated as a producer and actor, he was awarded in 2004 the prestigious Golden Globe Award in the nomination “Best Actor”.
His daughter from his first marriage Mait (Basic name by the way) gave him a grandson Marzik in October 2003. William L. Petersen remarried to his friend, biology teacher Gina Ciron, in June 2003. /