Peter Weller
Actor, Film actor
1947 –
Who is Peter Weller?
Peter Weller is an American film and stage actor, director and history lecturer.
Weller has appeared in more than 50 films and television series, including turns as the title characters in blockbuster hits RoboCop and RoboCop 2, and the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He has also appeared in such critically acclaimed films as Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, the Oliver Stone-produced The New Age and David Cronenberg's movie of William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch. He received an Academy Award nomination for his direction of the 1993 short Partners, in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the show Engineering an Empire on the History Channel. He also played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of 24 and Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the Showtime original series Dexter.
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- Born
- Jun 24, 1947
Stevens Point - Also known as
- Peter Frederick Weller
- Pete
- Parents
- Spouses
- Shari Stowe
(2006/06/24 - )
- Shari Stowe
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Syracuse University
- University of North Texas
- Alamo Heights High School
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
- San Antonio
- Heidelberg
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on July 23, 2013
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