In the world of cinema, it often happens that, after playing several similar characters successfully, the performer becomes a hostage of the same image, so for the rest of his career he has to play the same type of heroes. So it happened with an artist named Green Peter. The actor, starting his career with the role of bastards back in the mid-nineties, continues to convincingly play criminals, drug dealers and maniacs to this day. Consider his career.
Actor Peter Green: biography
This artist was born in October 1965 in a small town in New Jersey, under the name Monteclair.
Here the future actor spent his childhood and teenage years. However, pretty soon, he realized that in his hometown he had no prospects. For this reason, when Peter turned fifteen, he left school and took with him all his savings in a piggy bank, ran away from home and settled in New York.
At first, it was not easy for a young adventurer to get a job in this metropolis. To earn a living, he took on any job: he delivered pizza, was a driver-forwarding agent and carried out other small assignments. True, Green Peter soon realized - an actor, here is his true calling. Therefore, he began to go to auditions in the hope that he would be invited to act in films.
However, having visited several castings, the guy quickly realized that in addition to his good looks and talent, he needed knowledge to make a career in this area. In this regard, Peter Green went to study at the famous Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute.
The beginning of an acting career
After several years of study, he first tried his hand at the Green Peter Theater. The actor (photos are presented in the article) participated in small performances, but later switched to cinema and television, since he liked these areas more.
Peter's television debut took place in the television series "Grated Kalach". Here he played the role of an unnamed guy who flashes in several episodes of one of the series.
The actor first appeared on the movie screen only two years later in Nick Gomez's debut film "The Law of Inevitability." For the role of Jimmy in it, Peter Green was nominated for the prestigious American film award Independent Spirit, but never received it.
The first successes in the cinema
1994 was a truly fabulous year for a budding artist named Green Peter. The actor first got the main role in the detective drama of Lodge Kerrigan "Clean, shaved." His character is a young man suffering from schizophrenia. He is struggling to fight his illness and regain his little daughter, who was taken by the guardianship service. On the way to the baby, the man is one of the suspects in the murder of an unknown girl. Due to an absurd accident, soon the hero of Green dies at the hands of a policeman who painstakingly swept the traces of his crime.
For this role, the actor received the award of the Taormina International Film Festival.
In the same year, Green was lucky to get a cameo in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. And although he played a pervert policeman, for a novice actor it was a real breakthrough in a big movie. After all, sparkling in "Pulp Fiction", Peter soon got the main role in the movie "Mask", where his partners were Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz.
In "Mask" he played the main villain Dorian Tyrell Green Peter. The actor managed to perfectly get used to this image and prove himself well, although against the background of the brilliant Jim Carrey it was not easy to do it.
After Dorian, Green began to be offered many roles in crime dramas or action films. However, most of his characters after The Mask are drug addicts, criminals, or semi-criminal elements.
Drug problems
For five years he starred in more than ten films by Green Peter (actor). Films of this period with his participation were no longer such hits as “Mask” or “Pulp Fiction”, however, these were projects worthy of spectator attention. Among them is the action movie Capture 2, the drama about addiction Eternal Midnight, the crime story The Control Shot, and others.
Having become a recognizable actor with a good fee, Green could not stand the test of fame and went all out. In particular, the young artist began to have serious drug problems, which soon became public, thanks to a revealing article in the Premiere Magazine. At the insistence of friends and colleagues, Peter Green went to a drug addiction clinic. The treatment helped him overcome his addiction, and he was able to return to work. Unfortunately, Peter did not succeed in completely tying up heroin; he had more than once breakdowns.
Green Peter (actor): filmography
The last known work of the artist in the nineties was the role of the criminal Deacon, hunting for a precious stone worth 17 million dollars, in the film "Diamond policeman."
In the 2000s, when the fashion for crime fighters went slightly, Peter Green became less in demand in high-budget projects. Most of his works in the first decade of the 2000s are small roles in category B films. Green's most famous works in these years are: Dead Dogs Lies (for which the actor was awarded the Copper Wing Award), Under the Influence (Feature Film Award), “War of the Worlds”, “Bounty Hunter” and “Once Fallen”.
Also during this period, Peter Green played in the television series Law and Order, Life on Mars, The Donnelly Brothers, and Justice.
In recent years, the artist’s popularity has declined significantly, but he continues to be invited to appear, recalling past achievements. He recently played as a guest actor on the Hawaii 5.0 and Chicago Police television series. Among the most recent works of Green can be noted the films "Child", "Sweetheart Lorraine", "New York, New York", "The Godmother" and "Carousel".
Other achievements
In addition to participating in films and television series, Peter Green starred in several videos.
He can be seen in the video clips of such famous groups as House of Pain, Prodigy, Danny Diablo and Saints.
Personal life
Green Peter does not like to spread about his family and private life. The actor, whose personal life is not in the public domain, has a younger brother, John, and a sister, Mary Ann.
As for his second half, the actor does not have a permanent girl, as well as children. Maybe he is very successful in hiding their presence from the ubiquitous Hollywood journalists.
