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CSI: crime scene investigation
“Gil
Grissom” (William
Petersen)
Gil Grissom has
spent the last fifteen years helping
Las Vegas move from number 14 to number two in
the U.S. Crime Lab rankings. He grew up in Marina Del Rey, California. His mother ran an art gallery in
Venice, and his father was in the import/export
business, dealing primarily with communist China. Grissom’s parents divorced
when he was five. At eight or nine, Grissom began riding his bike out to
the beach every day to collect dead seagulls, possums and anything else
he could find. He would bring the remains home and conduct autopsies,
slowly teaching himself the ins and outs of death.
As
a teenager, Grissom became known to local authorities, who employed him
for quick autopsies on dead animals like cats and dogs. By age sixteen,
Grissom was an unofficial intern for the
L.A.
County morgue. He worked
his way through college, and at age 22 went to work full time as the
youngest coroner in the history of
L.A.
County. Eight years later,
a headhunter recruited him to run the Field Services Office in Las Vegas. His philosophy
about his work has always been: “if you want to learn about forensics,
master everything else first.”
While others may
have a reason for being a CSI, for Grissom the job is not about choice.
Grissom could no more work in another profession than a fish could stop
swimming. CSI is not a job for Grissom; it’s an expression of who he is
as a person, the perfect synthesis of personality and profession.
Grissom’s specialty is entomology.
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William Petersen
comes to this series with an extensive background in film, theater and
television. His credits
include the television films
Haven, Long Gone, The Rat Pack, The Kennedy’s of Massachusetts,
which won a Golden Globe Award,
The Beast and Keep the Change, which he also produced.
His film credits
include The Contender, To Live
and Die in L.A., Manhunter, Fear,
Cousins, Young Guns II, Hard Promises, and Skulls.
Petersen
made his Broadway debut in the revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Night
of the Iguana. In 1979 he
founded the Remains Theater Ensemble in
Chicago
with a group of fellow actors.
He has appeared in a number of stage productions including
A Streetcar Named Desire, The Time of Your Life, Glengarry Glen Ross,
Fools for Love and Speed
the Plow.
Petersen
was born in Evanston,
Illinois, and first discovered acting while on
a football scholarship at
Idaho
State
University.
Upon graduation, Petersen traveled to Spain
to study acting.
He
currently resides in Los
Angeles.
His birth date is February 21.
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