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William Louis Petersen
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Gilbert Arthur Grissom

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Birthday: Feb. 21, 1953

Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois

Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse;Married to Gina Cirone, June 14, 2003
Divorced; Joanne Brady (1974/81) 1 Child, 2 Grandsons
Where he grew up: Evanston and Boise, Idaho

Where he lives now: Chicago

Height: 5 feet, 10 inches

Family:Daughter: Maite (born 1975).
Grandson: Mazrik William (born October 2003)
Indigo August - grandson - 5th August 2009

Nickname: Billy & Bill

Pets: Bruno the dog, Rex & Regary 2 cats

William Petersen's biography

Graduated from Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, fell in love with the theater at Idaho State University and continued to study acting in 1974 at Boise State University's campus abroad program in the Basque Country under the guidance of BSU drama professor John Woodworth.. He wears his old football jersey from that school in most of his movies.

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Daughter named Maite, born in 1975.
Testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on increased funding for crime labs.

Attended the renowned Steppenwolf Company.Engaged to Gina Cirone, a biology teacher. [March 2002]

Started at Idaho State University on a football scholarship, where he found acting.Married longtime girl friend, Gina Cirone, in Petrignano, Italy.

He has a production company called, High Horse (with friend & fellow CSI (2000) producer, Cynthia Chvatal

Has been portrayed in several CSI games.

An avid Chicago Cubs fan, he sings the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley Field every year and also narrated the documentary Wrigley field beyond the Ivy (2001) (V) about Wrigley Field.

Owns the rights of James Ellroy's crime novel "Clandestine".
Source info IMBd

WP is reported to be farsighted requiring him to wear glasses or contacts.

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THE EVIDENCE SHOWS…THAT
WILLIAM PETERSEN WILL BE HONORED WITH
STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
2,379th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
WHERE: 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the historic Musso & Frank (Near to Aaron Spelling's star)
Tuesday, February 3, at 11:30 a.m.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Non-acting careers: Football Player




TV shows:
  • Gil Grissom in "CSI" (2000 - Present)
  • Jackson Connolly in "Haven" (2001)
  • John F. Kennedy in "The Rat Pack" (1998)
  • Joad in "The Staircase" (1998)
  • Juror #12 in "12 Angry Men" (1997)
  • Whip Dalton in "The Beast" (1996)
  • George in "Fallen Angels - Good Housekeeping" (1995)
  • Jack in "Present Tense, Past Perfect" (1995)
  • Gideon Walker in "Return to Lonesome Dove" (1993 miniseries)
  • Joe Starling in "Keep the Change" (1992)
  • Joseph P. Kennedy in "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990)
  • Edward Sayers in "The Twilight Zone - Need to Know/Red Snow" (1986)

Stage:
  • John Plunkett in "A Dublin Carol" at Trinity Rep (2006)
  • Ted in "Flyovers" at Victory Gardens (1998)
  • Reverend T. Shannon in "Night of the Iguana" at Roundabout Theater (1996)
  • Reverend T. Shannon in "Night of the Iguana" at Goodman Theater (1993)
  • "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" at Remains (1992)
  • "Once in Doubt" at Remains (1992)
  • Teach in "American Buffalo" at Remains (1991)
  • Bobby Gould in "Speed the Plow" at Wisdom Bridge Theater (1989)
  • "Big Time" at Remains (1987)
  • Matti in "Puntila and His Hired Man" at Organic Theater (1986)
  • "Days and Nights Within" at Organic Theater (1986)
  • "The Belly of the Beast" at Wisdom Bridge Theater (1984)
  • James Lingk in "Glengarry Glen Ross" at Goodman Theater (1984)
  • Joe in "The Time of Your Life" at Goodman Theater (1984)
  • "A Class "C" Trial in Yokahama." Chicago Theater Project with Remains (1984)
  • "Gardenia" at Goodman Theater (1984)
  • Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Stratford (1984)
  • Eddie in "Fool for Love" at Steppenwolf (1982)
  • Ahab in "Moby Dick" at Remains (1982)
  • Hoss in "Tooth of Crime" at Remains (1982)
  • Joe Conroy in "Balm in Gilead" Remains at Steppenwolf
  • "Sixty Six Scenes of Halloween" at Remains Theater
  • "Cantile of the Sun" at Wisdom Bridge Theater
  • "Dillindger" at Victory Gardens Theater (1979)
  • Victoria Gardens Theater project 'Blackbird' Summer 2009

Made his Broadway debut on March 21, 1996, in a revival of Tennessee Williams' play The Night of the Iguana.

Has a production company with Cynthia Chvatal called High Horse.


Awards: -Winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jack Abbott in "The Belly Of The Beast".

Joint Winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor for Blackbird 2009

Upcoming projects: - Samuel Becketts - Endgame - The Steppenwolf Theater Chicago - April 2010


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Billy & His Wife Gina - Cannes France(2009)

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Memorable quotes (on/off the set)
Personal Quotes (On seeing the Marlon Brando movie "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. 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."
"Their argument was, Everybody else is going to start copying the show, so why not us? My attitude was, Well then everybody else do it. Don't rip yourself off." (On the network and producers' decision to create the CSI spinoff series, CSI: Miami)
"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.
After 'Manhunter', 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.
"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")
The greatest thing that ever happened to me in terms of my acting was the audition for To Live and Die in L.A. 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.
"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
(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. **** 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.
(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 hamburger when I've got steak at home?
After Manhunter and To Live and Die, there were all these cop movies that came my way, but they weren't any good, so I didn't do them. Then there was talk about my doing Platoon, 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, 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 an effort. I've had it pretty good. I've had it my own way.
Petersen wasn't much of an achiever in the classroom when it came to the tricky subject - and he's got the grades to prove it. He says, "I was a terrible science guy. I got out of high school with two D-minuses - doubles minuses behind the D. "I was 19, I was buying beer. I couldn't pass a science test to save my life. The state needed you to pass some science, so they just minus-minused me and out I went.

When he's not acting
Plays golf. watches the Chicago Cubs baseball team & Blackhawks ice hockey team - link above
Supports numerous good causes - see link above



Fascinating Facts
Declined the offer to produce CSI Miami (2002), the spin-off of his series CSI(2000).


January 2009 - for the foreseeable future Billy will be concentrating on the theater in Chicago & vacationing.

February 2009 - Chicago Sun Times

Even though he felt it was the right time to leave the crime drama, Petersen said there was "no question" that CSI
was a blessing in his life. "It was, for me, a true collaborative experience, like the kind you find in the theater," he explained. "We were a dysfunctional yet very functional family. I leave it with no regrets."
The actor is no longer the leading man on the show, but he has not left completely. Petersen will stay on CSI as an executive producer, and he is open to occasional guest appearances in the future. "I think my job now will be to see that the writers and actors are in sync. I might start looking at some scripts down the road," he said. "But right now, I'm just going to take time off."

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gsrbritfan Billy has a recently new born Granson...... 12 Nov 23 2009, 11:53 AM EST by gsrbritfan
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His daughter Maite had a baby (boy) on August 5 in Idaho. Source the Boise Statesman newspaper, under Lifestyles, Celebrations, the birth was announced on 9/11/09. So maybe he's been visiting in Boise after his play finished!

Congrats to Maite & her husband & Billy!
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gsrbritfan Door always open for Billy to return to CSI..... (page: 1 2) 28 Oct 28 2009, 9:33 AM EDT by Sarauk56
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CSI Files 15th October -Carol Mendelsohn said. However, fans should not expect Grissom to appear on the show any time soon. “We have no plans for Billy to return at the moment,” Mendelsohn said, “but the door’s always open.”

Of course its always open for Billy's character , Grissom was and always will be what made CSI the best & unique # 1 show in the US, and his loyal fans will always welcome him back any time he wants to return.
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csinut Happy Birthday Billy (page: 1 2) 27 Mar 5 2009, 1:37 PM EST by stewie4worldleader
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Happy Birthday Billy! Hope you have a great day!
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