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William Petersen's path to fame - Radio Times, January 2004 |
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Jane Rackham shares some facts about CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's leading man.
"It's hard to believe, but the man who plays Gil Grissom,
CSI's
sharpest forensic scientist, is clueless when it comes to science.
When
William
"Billy" Petersen was at school,
his
science and maths were so bad that he had to
take drama to improve his grades.
"That's why
I'm an actor now," he says.
The youngest of a large blue-collar family,
Petersen gained a football scholarship at Idaho
State University,
where he also took a stagecraft
course.
By
1975 he was married,
had a daughter
and was performing in a theatre group in Chicago.
Roles in
To Live and Die in LA,
Manhunter
and Cousins
followed.
He admits he was "a bit of a snob"
about
TV,
fearing he'd lose
"my soul and freedom".
Then came CSI
and a Golden Globe nomination.
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." "
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