Biographie
PETER GANIM is an American actor, descended of Lebanese, Syrian, and Slovak-Rusyn immigrants. Born on the army base at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he started out on the stage as a kid in Cleveland, Ohio, burnished his professional cred in the hotbed of Atlanta, Georgia, then flirted with a theatrical career in both Paris and New York City before settling, nearly twenty years ago. in Manhattan, where he lives and works.
A maker of short films, an occasional writer, as well as an award-winning theater director, he is likely best known as an actor of versatility and distinction. Accomplished in classical and contemporary work and methods, he's been lauded as a "virtuoso" for his "powerhouse" performances in Man and Superman, Hamlet, The Misanthrope, Cloud 9, Othello, A Doll House, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Tracers, Handler, and Tango Palace, and in productions helmed by directors as idiosyncratic as Chris Coleman, Joseph Chaikin, and Nancy Keystone. He appears frequently with New York City's Obie Award winning Middle Eastern company, Noor Theatre, as well as in readings, workshops, and other productions with the Atlantic, the New Group, the Lark, the Public, and Playwrights Horizons. He made his Off-Broadway debut in the final production of Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre, Right You Are!, and later, his Broadway debut in the company of Bartlett Sher's Tony Award-winning production of Oslo, at Lincoln Center Theater.
On the silver screen, he's appeared in several independent features and shorts, notably, his award-winning performance as 'Man' in Anthony Haden Salerno's festival favorite, Lapse. On television, (and on laptops, tablets, and smartphones) he's been featured on the soaps, (when they were still in town), a couple of times on the storied Law & Order franchise, and guest stars on several network episodics including Madam Secretary, Elementary, Quantico, and The Code.
He speaks French, Spanish and Italian conversationally, acts in scripted Arabic, is actively honing his Slavic skills...yet, he's just as in demand for his portrayals of American men from the Rust Belt to the Deep South to that grown-up guy next door. He's a rusty baritone, is bearded more often than not, and he is, according to the latest reports, one of the good guys.
