William Louis Petersen was born on the 21st February 1953 in Evanston, Illinois USA, of Danish, French and German descent. He is an actor as well as a producer, best known for the roles he created in television series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2000 – 2009, 2011 – 2013), and feature films “Young Guns II” (1990), “Fear” (1996), “The Skulls” (2000) among others. William Petersen has been active in the entertainment industry since 1976.
How much is the net worth of William Petersen? It has been estimated by sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $35 million, as of the data given in mid-2016. Reportedly, he earned $500,000 per episode of the series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”.
William Petersen Net Worth $35 Million
To begin with, Petersen grew up in Boise, Idaho, the youngest of six children. Petersen left the family being 15 years old and moved to one of his brothers. In 1974, he briefly moved to Spain with his wife-to-be, where they married and had a daughter. In 1975, he graduated on a sports scholarship from Idaho State University and moved to Chicago, where he joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. In 1979, he founded his own theater company in Chicago.
After small roles, in 1985 Petersen landed the main role in the film “To Live and Die in L.A” (1985). He missed the opportunity to establish himself as an action hero in the 1980s, when he refused an offer to land a role in Oliver Stone’s Vietnam drama “Platoon” (1986). In 1990, he took the role of Joseph P. Kennedy in the miniseries “The Kennedys of Massachusetts”. This was followed by increasingly small roles in films and television series, until he starred in the highly successful CBS series “CSI: The Crime Scene Investigation” created by Anthony E. Zuiker, for almost 10 years continuously from 2000, latterly co-producing the aforementioned series. In the role of the charismatic chief investigator Gilbert Grissom his popularity increased tremendously, and in 2004, he was nominated as the Best Actor for the Golden Globes in the category – Best Actor TV Series Drama, additionally for Emmy and Satellite Awards. In 2005, he and the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series. At the beginning of 2009, he received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Later, he appeared in the main cast of the films “Detachment” (2011) and “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” (2012). In 2015, he is joining the cast of drama series Manhattan over at WGN America. Overall, in landing the above mentioned roles William Petersen added huge sums to the total size of his net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the actor, he married Joanne Brady in 1974, and they had a daughter but divorced in 1981. In 2003, William married for the second time, to Gina Cirone. In 2011, twins were born to the family via a surrogate mother. Petersen also has two grandchildren.
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