Attended Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho. He wears his old football jersey from that school in most of his movies.Daughter named Maite Nerea, born in 1975, in Mondragon (País Vasco, Spain).Testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on increased funding for crime labs.Attended the renowned Steppenwolf Company.Engaged to Gina Cirone, a biology teacher. [March 2002]Started at Idaho State University on a football scholarship, where he found acting.Married longtime girl friend, Gina Cirone, in Petr - www.imdb.com

William Petersen is known to TV fans as dedicated crime fighter Gil Grissom, thanks to his years as the star of the CBS drama C.S.I. (2000-09). Petersen had previously played tense, obsessive lawmen in the films To Live And Die In L.A. (1985, with Willem Dafoe) and Manhunter (the 1986 "prequel" to Silence of the Lambs). The roles earned him respect but not stardom, and throughout the 1990s he took a variety of roles on stage and screen, including parts in the films The Beast (1997) and The Skulls - www.answers.com

Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad (Jack Warden) has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each others' throats. As the eldest son, Johnny (Bob Hoskins) is tactlessly reminded that he's probably the next to go; daughter Terry (Pamela Reed) is the black sheep who hasn't told anyone that the marriage they all warned her against has broken up; thick-headed but nice looking younger son Frank (William Peterse - www.tvguide.com