Peter Weller Biography

Fast Facts

• Made professional stage debut in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones in 1971, two weeks after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York
• While filming 1987's RoboCop, had to endure six and a half hours of prosthetic makeup, plus an hour and a half of getting into the suit, putting in an eight-hour day before filming could begin
• Plays jazz trumpet in a group called Three Guys from Italy, with Jeff Goldblum on keyboards
• Has an avid interest in ancient Rome and lectures on the subject as an occasional professor at Syracuse University
• Enjoys traveling and learning about other cultures
• Education is an issue he uses his celebrity status to draw attention to, particularly pre-school and early-elementary education
• Participates in celebrity golf tournaments
• Portraying the lead in RoboCop (1987) was his breakout role; in 2010, he portrayed a cop again in several episodes of Dexter