Marcus Giamatti
Marcus Bartlett Giamatti ( dʒiəmɑ ː ti; born October 3, 1961) in New Haven, Connecticutist an American actor who appears mainly in TV serials. He is best known for his role as Peter Gray is a regular member of the cast of the CBS drama series Judging Amy.
Life
Giamatti is the son of Toni Marilyn (née Smith ), and the former president of Yale University and Major League Baseball Commissioners Angelo "Bart " Bartlett Giamatti. His younger brother is the Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Giamatti. He attended the Foote School, Hopkins School and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Finally, he studied at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he received the Carole Dye Award for Excellence in Acting.
Giamatti began his career in the soap opera One Life to Live, but is probably best known for his regular role on the CBS drama series Judging Amy, where he played the title character Peter Gray in the course of six seasons of the series. He also had guest roles in a number of popular series like The X-Files, Homicide, Monk, The Mentalist and House MD. More rarely, he had rolls of film as in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Armadillo Bears - A totally chaotic heap, and the biographical TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Giamatti is an accomplished musician, he plays bass guitar in various bands in Los Angeles, including the alternative folk-rock group Olivea and the jam band Rebel Soul.
Giamatti threw the ceremonial first pitch of the 1989 World Series - opening as respect for his late father shortly before in Oakland, California.
More recently, he was a guest in Season 3 of the series Fringe - limiting cases of the FBI and to see in the final season of The Closer. In 2007, he played Uncle Lou in the drama On the Doll. In 2012, he starred in the series Common Law in a relevant supporting role.