Peter Facinelli Biography
Peter Facinelli is an American actor who was born on November 26th, 1973, in Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, USA. He is the son of Italian Immigrants, Bruna, a homemaker, and Pierino Facinelli, a waiter.
His parents come from Trentino, northern Italy, and reside in the Val di Nonvalley. His mother is from Spormaggiore, while his father is from Rev. He went to St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, New York, where he was raised Catholic. He attended the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City and New York University to study acting.
Peter Facinelli Career
In 1995, Facinelli made his feature film debut in Rebecca Miller’s Angela. Later that year, the television movie The Price of Love brought him to the attention of critics. In 1996, Facinelli played inverse his then-future spouse Jennie Garth in An Incomplete Undertaking.
After Jimmy (1996) and Calm at Sunset (1996), where she played a college dropout, were two of her subsequent television roles. Facinelli starred alongside Amanda Peet and Michael Vartan in the 1997 AIDS-themed drama Touch Me, as well as in Dancer, Texas Pop, two 1998 films as a high school student alongside Ethan Embry and Breckin Meyer. 81, as well as Jennifer Love Hewitt’s, Can’t Hardly Wait.
Facinelli showed up in the science fiction film Cosmic Explosion featuring James Spader in 2000. Following his appearances in 2001’s Riding in Cars with Boys and 2002’s The Scorpion King, in which he played a lead role, he appeared in the Fox drama Fastlane. In 2004, Facinelli played a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under, and beginning in 2007, he played a role in the FX original series Damages.
Facinelli was featured in Empty Man 2 with Christian Slater. In May 2006, it was released directly to video. In 2006, he was projected in Touch the Highest Point of the World, a genuine story of Erik Weihenmayer, the main visually impaired individual to climb Mount Everest.
His best-selling autobiography serves as the basis for the film. Facinelli played Carlisle Cullen in the movie Twilight, which was based on the Stephenie Meyer book, after finishing Finding Amanda with Matthew Broderick. As per a meeting, “I nearly didn’t understand Dusk. “Do you want to do a vampire movie?” my agent asked.
Also, I was like, ‘No.’ I was totally thinking of a horror movie like Blood and Guts and Bats in Caves. I was literally persuaded to read the book by them, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.” In the subsequent installments of The Twilight Saga, Facinelli continued to play the character: The Twilight Saga’s New Moon: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Breaking Dawn – Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Part 2 of Breaking Dawn.
On the dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which airs on Showtime, he portrayed Dr. Fitch Cooper for seven seasons. The production company Facinelli Films was established by him. In 2011, they shot their first full-length film, Loosies, which was entirely written by Facinelli.
He played a leading role in the Verdi Corrente Productions-produced film about a pickpocket in New York. He also wrote and produced the Hallmark Channel telefilm Accidentally in Love in 2011, which starred Jennie Garth, his then-wife.
He played Maxwell Lord in Supergirl in 2015. After the Red Rain, which Facinelli co-wrote with Barry Lyga and Robert DeFranco in 2015, was published. It takes place in a future Earth where people are struggling with scarce resources.
Peter Facinelli Age
Peter was born on November 26th, 1973, in Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, USA. He is 40 years old as of 2023.
Peter Facinelli Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Peter Facinelli Family
He is the son of Italian Immigrants, Bruna, a homemaker, and Pierino Facinelli, a waiter. His parents come from Trentino, northern Italy, and reside in the Val di Nonvalley. His mother is from Spormaggiore, while his father is from Rev.
Peter Facinelli Wife
Facinelli met actress, Jennie Garth on the set of An Unfinished Affair in 1995. On January 20, 2001, Facinelli and Garth were married in a customary Catholic ceremony. The couple had three daughters. Facinelli filed for divorce from Garth in March 2012, and the divorce was finalized in June 2013.
Facinelli started dating actress Jaimie Alexander in 2012 subsequent to a meeting on the set of Loosies. They became engaged in March 2015 and reported they had ended their engagement in February 2016. He announced his engagement to Lily Anne Harrison on January 1, 2020. Lily Anne gave birth to their first child, Jack Cooper, in September 2022.
Peter Facinelli Net Worth
Peter has an estimated net worth of $10 Million which he has earned through being an actor.
Peter Facinelli Salary
He earns an average salary ranging between $1 million – $5 million per movie.
Peter Facinelli Movies and TV Shows
Movies
- Angela
- Foxfire
- Touch Me
- Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
- Can’t Hardly Wait
- Telling You
- Welcome to Hollywood
- The Big Kahuna
- Blue Ridge Fall
- Supernova
- Ropewalk
- Honest
- Stealing Time
- Tempted
- Riding in Cars with Boys
- The Scorpion King
- Chloe
- Enfants terribles
- The Lather Effect
- Hollow Man 2
- Arc
- Battle Olympia
- That Guy
- Lily
- Finding Amanda
- Twilight
- Reaper
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
- Loosies
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
- The Damned
- Freezer
- Walter
- Heartthrob
- The Wilde Wedding
- Gangster Land
- Asher
- Running with the Devil
- Countdown
- Famous Adjacent
- The Vanished – Hour of Lead
- The F**k-It List
- The Ravine
- Catch the Bullet
- The Unbreakable Boy
TV Shows
- Law & Order
- The Wright Verdicts
- The Price of Love
- An Unfinished Affair
- After Jimmy
- Calm at Sunset
- Fastlane
- I Love the ’80s
- Six Feet Under
- American Dad!
- Touch The Top of the World
- Damages
- Nurse Jackie
- Accidentally in Love
- Glee
- American Odyssey
- Supergirl
- S.W.A.T.
- FBI
- Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter
- Magnum P.I.
- Roar
Peter Facinelli Daughter
Jennie Garth and Peter’s most famous daughter is Lola Ray Facinelli.
Peter Facinelli Twilight
Facinelli played Carlisle Cullen in the movie Twilight, which was based on the Stephenie Meyer book, after finishing Finding Amanda with Matthew Broderick. As per a meeting, “I nearly didn’t understand Dusk. “Do you want to do a vampire movie?” my agent asked.
Also, I was like, ‘No.’ I was totally thinking of a horror movie like Blood and Guts and Bats in Caves. I was literally persuaded to read the book by them, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
In the subsequent installments of The Twilight Saga, Facinelli continued to play the character: The Twilight Saga’s New Moon: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Breaking Dawn – Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Part 2 of Breaking Dawn.
Peter Facinelli Scorpion King
He played the role of Takmet in the 2002 movie, The Scorpion King.
Peter Facinelli Can’t Hardly Wait
He played the role of Mike Dexter in the 1998 movie, Can’t Hardly Wait.
Peter Facinelli Shirtless
