Michael Germana -- Tuesday February 3rd 2009 Los Angeles Ca ~ Be sure you are viewing in high quality for the best experience.
THE EVIDENCE SHOWSTHAT
WILLIAM PETERSEN WAS HONORED WITH
STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

WHO: William Petersen
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Leron Gubler


WHAT: 2,379th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

WHERE: 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the historic Musso & Frank

WHEN: Tuesday, February 3, at 11:30 a.m.

COMMENTS:


William Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois, and first discovered acting while on a football scholarship at Idaho State University. He later studied acting in Spain.

Petersen, who has a distinguished background in film, theater and television, came to the attention of audiences worldwide when he took the role of Gil Grissom, the lead investigator on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2000. Petersen received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2003 for his role and while he departed from the series this past January 2009, he remains an executive producer.

His television credits include Long Gone, The Rat Pack, the Golden Globe Award winning mini-series The Kennedys of Massachusetts and The Beast.

His feature film credits include To Live and Die in L.A., Manhunter, Cousins, Young Guns II, Fear, The Contender and the films Hard Promises and Keep the Change, both of which he also produced.

In 1979, he founded the Remains Theater Ensemble in Chicago with a group of fellow actors. In 1983, Petersen starred as Jack Henry Abbott in In the Belly of the Beast which he performed at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

In 1996 Petersen made his Broadway debut in a revival of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. He has appeared in a number of regional stage productions, including most recently A Dublin Carol at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Time of Your Life, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fool for Love and Speed-the-Plow.

Last fall Petersen became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble.

Audiences will next see him star in Blackbird on stage at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago in the summer of 2009.

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