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In Chicago Billy drives a Volvo S80 car
with a taupe leather interior, with a soft top!
 
Not this car seen in the Chicago Tribune Coming home article!
Billy's favorite pigout food is the Double cheeseburgers
at the Gaslight on Halsted Street in Chicago.Source TV.comWilliam Petersen hosts a video shown at the Chicago Field Museum's DNA Discovery Center. The video, which explains the basics of genetics and DNA, is shown to vistors to the exhibit, which opened in April 2008Source TV.com
Excerpt from Billy's interview with Rick Kogan
@ the Chicago Science & History Museum 2009
Billy met his second & current wife Gina Circone on September 30th 1993, he was listening to a White Sox baseball game on the radio, he pulled over at The Hoghead McDunners bar to go in and have a Budweiser & to watch the game & Gina was serving behind the bar. As they spoke Gina mentioned that they had a friend in common, Billy thought' i don't even really know anyone your age' , she informed him that the person was Dennis Fenner a police officer who worked under her Father. They got chatting then dated for ten years & have now been married for the last 6 yrs.
Billy once received a D - - In Science in college.
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Billy is not comfortable with his fame & Stardom
@ His Hollywood walk of fame star ceremony on the 3rd February 2009 he looked quite nervous & very uncomfortable at times, displaying nervous actions with his hands, that he doesn't seem to know what to do with them, and that i have observed him to do on many a public appearance before.
He has often been seen rubbing behind his ear and slightly dipping his head quite a few times, but his hands seem to display his nervousness the most;
5th February 2009 - Chicago Sun times
by Ray Richmond The Hollywood Reporter
Q. With the success of “CSI,” I’ll bet it’s hard to go out incognito.
A. There’s nobody who doesn’t recognize me now. That’s the worst part of what “CSI” brought to my life. I can wear hats, disguises — it doesn’t matter. They always know it’s me, and it happens in the strangest places at the strangest times.
Petersen agrees, saying, “Stardom is most uncomfortable for me in Chicago. In L.A., if people recognize me, they are too cool, or pretend to be too cool, to pay any attention. Here people act as if they are shocked to see you. They’re rubber necking. They are following me ... photos, autographs, grabbing.” Source Chicago Tribune interview with Rick Kogan
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Billy’s back in town Chicago!. He and Gina, who were married in Italy in 2003, have two places in Chicago: a house on the Northwest Side and a downtown condo.
Billy on GSR and Jorja Fox leaving the show May 2008
After college, Billy and his then wife, Joanne, spent time in Spain, where they started a Shakespeare company in the Basque region.
11th March 2009 - Article in the UK's Radio Time TV Magazine
Why has Sara been so important to him? She is the heart of Grissom. Jorja Fox and I have been slowly playing with the chemistry between them for years.
He's also had a real fascination with Lady Heather, hasn't he? They have a very intricate relationship that comes with a great deal of respect. But she has a lot of trouble, a lot of problems, and ultimately Grissom likes to stay away from problems. Source JFO
Interesting fact; 26th November CSI Files News Bullets
Captain Paul Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmental group which will be trailing Japanese whaling vessels into the Antarctic this December. Last year, Watson said some of the whalers fired live ammunition at the activists, and he had a souvenir to prove it. "I was wearing a bullet-proof vest but the bullet hit my badge (an anti-poaching badge) so I had this bullet," Watson told The West. He gave the bullet to William Petersen (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's Gil Grissom). "He's one of our supporters."
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5th February 2009 - Chicago Sun times
Questions & Answers;Q. Weren’t you up for a role in “Goodfellas” (1990), too? A - Billy - Yeah. I got flown in to New York to have lunch with Marty Scorsese. They weren’t sure if De Niro was going to be available for their shooting schedule. That didn’t work out. But my attitude in this town has always been that I’d rather have control of my life than be in anything. I’d rather say “No” and have it be my “No.” You can control your own destiny. It can be done.
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Billy & Manchester United football team?
It Looks like our Billy is a Manchester United Football Fan ( English premiership football team)Fan, wearing what is clearly a cap with the team's red devil logo on it.
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Billy on CSI New York Spin-off show
Petersen, now 50 and remarried, was not thrilled by the arrival of a Miami-based CSI clone, which he nicknamed "NYPDCSI" because it stars NYPD Blue's David Caruso. "I won't have anything to do with it," he grumbled at the time. "They should have waited five years."Source Radio Times (UK) 2004
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Near Death Experiences of the rich and Famous
William Petersen
The star of the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, had a near-death experience which he described in an interview for Playboy magazine (March 2004, page 139).
"Years ago, doing a play in Chicago, I cut my finger in half onstage. We obviously had to stop because, well, I didn't have a finger. By the time they got me to the ER I had lost a lot of blood and passed out. I could hear the doctors working on me, saying that they had lost my vital signs. I was on the "All That Jazz" escalator with a long tunnel and a lot of white light. Then I specifically remember a dominant male voice saying, "It's not your time. Get off the escalator. You've got **** to do." I came to, and got sewed up. Something in me changed, a sort of knowledge that somewhere on the other side, its good. For weeks, the more I talked about it, the more freaked out people got. Some of them were like, "Okay, whatever: You took too many drugs."
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1985 To Live and Die in LA
(US Magazine 1989)
Billy did his own stunts in the films To Live and Die in LA & Manhunter in the tough action packed thrillers which cast him in the macho screen hero mold. "I'm not really all that tough" Billy Demurs.
Source billypetersen.com
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Billy sported an ear -ring in his younger days of the film and stage!
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Billy lived with, in a relationship with Amy Morton
Billy's co-star in A Dublin Carol in 2007 at the Trinity Rep theater, and and Ensembe member of A dublin Carol at the Steppenwolf Theater this November was a former romantic partner of his.
 |  | | Amy Morton (Right) A Dublin Carol 2008 | Amy Morton - A Dublin Carol 2007 |
Excerpt of an article in a US magazine dated April 1989
Billy was aged 35 yrs old at the time, after his divorce and a period of, as he quoted in the article 'Acting like a kid in a candy store'.
He settled down with a fellow remains member, Actress Amy Morton with whom he has been living with for 3 years. "I feel most comfortable in this relationship" he said " But we're apart a lot, for the kind of people we are, it helps. We have different talent s and ideas. I'm not able to control her; she tells me what the hell she thinks of things, and it's very good for me. We have a very solid thing".
Source information & Picture credit - billypetersen.com
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billypetersen.com Biography excerpt
Possessing a gypsy soul, he moved to Boise Idaho when he was 15 to live with his brother. There he attented Bishop Kelly High School, a Catholic school, where he graduated in 1972. That is also where he met his first wife, Joanne. His energy not yet focused, he was a fairly wild young man who was into rock concerts, drinking and the usual pot smoking. "General brattiness" as he called it.
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Billy Quote;
" They make me dye my hair darker because it photographs better. But since we shoot out of sequence, I walk into a room with it one color, and when I leave it's another." Information billypetersen.com
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Billy in first grade fourth row from top, second one in!
Source billypetersen.com
2000 Billy spoke to the senate about funding for crime labs around America
That back in May 15th 2001, Billy testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to show support for increased funding for Crime Labs throughout the country. His full testimony can be read herebillypetersen.com
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Did you know that Billy has been on the front cover of TV Guide Magazine 8 Times?
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