William Petersen
Gender: Male
Born: 21st February 1953 (currently 59 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Kennedys of Massachusetts, Return to Lonesome Dove
Movies: Fear, Kiss the Sky, Manhunter, The Contender, The Rat Pack, The Skulls, To Live and Die in L.A., 12 Angry Men, Mulholland Falls, The Beast, Thief, Young Guns II, Passed Away, Amazing Grace and Chuck, Cousins, In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King, Gunshy, The Staircase, Hard Promises, Detachment, Long Gone, Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Keep the Change, Haven, The Kennedys of Massachusetts
William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor and producer, best known for playing Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as Will Graham in the film Manhunter.
Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois, the youngest of six children of June (née Hoene; 1909–2006) and Arthur Edward Petersen, Sr. (1907–2004), who worked in the furniture business. He is of Danish and German descent. He has two brothers, Arthur, Jr. and Robert, plus 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 and he studied the Basque language, Euskara, and gave his daughter the Basque name Maite Nerea (meaning My Beloved); she was born in Arrasate - Mondragón 1975. Petersen returned to Idaho intent on being an actor. Not wanting to work a
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