Clarke Peters

Peter Clarke (lahir 7 April 1952), dikenal secara profesional sebagai Clarke Peters, adalah aktor, penulis, dan sutradara Amerika, yang menghabiskan sebagian besar masa dewasanya di Inggris. Ia terkenal karena perannya sebagai Lester Freamon dalam serial televisi The Wire (2002–2008) dan Albert Lambreaux dalam serial televisi Treme (2010–2013). Dia juga menulis buku untuk pertunjukan musikal Five Guys Named Moe (1990). Peters juga dikenal karena perannya dalam film Silver Dream Racer (1980), Endgame (2009), John Wick (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Harriet (2019), dan Da 5 Bloods (2020), yang terakhir membuatnya mendapatkan nominasi BAFTA Award untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Peran Pendukung. Peters lahir sebagai Peter Clarke, anak kedua dari empat bersaudara, di New York City, dan dibesarkan di Englewood, New Jersey. Pada usia 12 tahun, ia mendapatkan pengalaman teater pertamanya, dalam produksi sekolah My Fair Lady. Ia mulai memiliki ambisi serius untuk bekerja di teater pada usia 14 tahun. Ia lulus dari Dwight Morrow High School pada tahun 1970. Pada tahun 1971, kakak laki-laki Peters mengizinkannya bekerja sebagai desainer kostum untuk produksi musikal Hair in Paris, yang kemudian dibintangi oleh Peters. Pada tahun 1973, Peters pindah ke London dan mengganti namanya menjadi Clarke Peters, karena Equity sudah memiliki beberapa anggota yang memiliki nama yang sama. Selama di London, ia membentuk band soul, The Majestics, dan bekerja sebagai penyanyi cadangan di lagu-lagu hits seperti "Love and Affection" oleh Joan Armatrading, "Boogie Nights" oleh Heatwave, dan beberapa lagu David Essex. Namun, musik bukanlah ambisi utama Peters, dan dia lebih memilih bekerja di teater. Peran musikal teater West End pertamanya, yang ia terima dengan bantuan temannya Ned Sherrin, adalah I Gotta Shoe (1976) dan Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977). Kredit West End lainnya termasuk Blues in the Night, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, dan Chess. Peters membintangi film Sean Connery Western Outland (1981) sebagai Sersan pengkhianat. Ballard, dan dia memainkan peran yang hampir tanpa kata-kata sebagai Anderson, seorang germo yang kejam dalam Mona Lisa (1986) karya Neil Jordan. Peters akrab bagi pemirsa televisi sebagai Detektif Lester Freamon dalam serial HBO The Wire. Peters juga membintangi mini-seri HBO The Corner, memerankan seorang pecandu narkoba bernama Fat Curt, serta serial FX Damages, sebagai Dave Pell. Baik The Wire maupun The Corner diciptakan oleh penulis dan mantan jurnalis The Baltimore Sun, David Simon. Peters juga membintangi serial HBO Simon Treme, dalam peran kepala suku Indian Mardi Gras Albert Lambreaux. Peters muncul dalam dua episode serial TV perjalanan waktu/detektif Amerika Life on Mars (2008) sebagai Kapten NYPD Fletcher Bellow. Dia juga muncul di acara Inggris Holby City, sebagai Derek Newman, ayah dari perawat Donna Jackson. Dia mengisi suara dalam episode animasi Doctor Who Dreamland, dan dalam episode In Plain Sight "Duplikat Jembatan" sebagai seorang pria dalam Perlindungan Saksi bernama Norman Baker/Norman Danzer. Pada tahun 2010, Peters membaca Rita Hayworth dan Shawshank Redemption untuk BBC 7. Pada tahun itu, ia juga menjadi bintang tamu sebagai Profesor Mark Ramsay dalam episode percontohan serial TV USA Network Covert Affairs. Dari 2012 hingga 2013, Peters berulang kali berperan sebagai Alonzo D. Quinn dalam serial TV CBS Person of Interest.

Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American actor, writer, and director, who has spent much of his adult life in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his roles as Lester Freamon in the television series The Wire (2002–2008) and Albert Lambreaux in the television series Treme (2010–2013). He also wrote the book for the musical revue Five Guys Named Moe (1990). Peters is also known for his roles in the films Silver Dream Racer (1980), Endgame (2009), John Wick (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Harriet (2019), and Da 5 Bloods (2020), the lattermost of which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Peters was born Peter Clarke, the second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1970. In 1971, Peters' older brother enabled him to work as a costume designer for a production of the musical Hair in Paris, in which Peters later starred. In 1973, Peters moved to London and changed his name to Clarke Peters, because Equity already had a few namesake members. While in London, he formed a soul band, The Majestics, and worked as a backup singer on such hits as "Love and Affection" by Joan Armatrading, "Boogie Nights" by Heatwave, and some David Essex songs. However, music was not Peters' main ambition, and he preferred to work in the theater. His first West End theatre musical roles, which he received with assistance from his friend Ned Sherrin, were I Gotta Shoe (1976) and Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977). Other West End credits include Blues in the Night, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, and Chess. Peters starred in the Sean Connery space Western Outland (1981) as the treacherous Sgt. Ballard, and he played an almost wordless role as Anderson, a vicious pimp in Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986). Peters is familiar to television viewers as Detective Lester Freamon in the HBO series The Wire. Peters also starred in the HBO mini-series The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, as well as the FX series Damages, as Dave Pell. Both The Wire and The Corner were created by writer and former The Baltimore Sun journalist David Simon. Peters also stars in Simon's HBO series Treme, in the role of Mardi Gras Indian chief Albert Lambreaux. Peters appeared in two episodes of the American time-travel/detective TV series Life on Mars (2008) as NYPD Captain Fletcher Bellow. He also appeared in the British show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in the Doctor Who animated episode Dreamland, and in the In Plain Sight episode "Duplicate Bridge" as a man in Witness Protection named Norman Baker/Norman Danzer. In 2010, Peters read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7. In that year, he also had a guest appearance as Professor Mark Ramsay in the pilot episode of the USA Network TV series Covert Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, Peters had a recurring role as Alonzo D. Quinn in the CBS TV series Person of Interest.