| Full Name | Clarke Peters |
| Net Worth | $1.5 Million |
| Date Of Birth | April 7, 1952 |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, United States |
| Profession | Actor, Writer, Singer, Theatre Director |
| Education | Dwight Morrow High School |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Penny Clarke |
| Children | Joe Jacobs, Guppy Clarke, Max Clarke |
| Nicknames | Peter Clarke |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676370 |
| Awards | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment |
| Nominations | Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical |
| Movies | Red Hook Summer, The Benefactor, Marley & Me, Notting Hill, Outland, Endgame, Freedomland, K-PAX, The Poker House, The Bad Education Movie, Nativity!, Mona Lisa, The Music Machine, Division 19, Death Train, Chess: In Concert, Gigantic, Searching for Sonny, Grace, Legacy, Locked In, Turnipseed, Break... |
| TV Shows | London Spy, The Divide, Treme, The Wire, The Corner, Chandler & Co |
| # | Quote |
|---|
| 1 | [on how the variety of parts that come his way has expanded as he's grown older] - I think it's because I'm older. Of course, wisdom doesn't always come with age. But it can look like that. |
| 2 | [in 2010] The art, our craft - we have to hold onto these kinds of things. People say, 'I want to be a movie star'; be a movie star, go do that, go be a movie star, but that doesn't mean you're an actor. Go to stage, go onto the stage. If you wanna act, go to the stage. People don't go to theaters, you know? This is a dying craft, because everyone looks at a little tiny screen and they think, 'Well, that's who it is.' No, that's not who it is. That person is an actor, give that person something else to do. Put them on the stage. Get off your ass and go to a theater. Even if it's a local amateur theater, go to the theater. Get away from that fucking screen, and have that communication 'cause that's where the magic is. The magic is not in the music that has been manipulated for you to watch television; the magic is when the person is on stage and that vibration is true and you and the audience are being moved by that. That's an experience people don't have these days. That's a very necessary experience for your spirit, for your soul. You need to have that. You need to hear live music. Listening to the radio, CDs or whatever -- no; listen to the person's breath while they're singing that song or they're playing that guitar. Feel yourself with the person next to you being moved by that. We gotta get out of this little box. |
| 3 | Everyone said: 'The Wire (2002)'s hot, you should go to LA.' But when I got out there I just thought, 'This is a bunch of dimwits here. Let me get back to London, man, back to some theatre.' I didn't realise how spoilt I was. |
| 4 | I'm here [in London] because theatre is a part of your culture. Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature, they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. |
| 5 | On playing Daryl Van Horne in a touring company of "The Witches of Eastwick": It's a double-edged sword. It's good for the career, but some people said 'The black guy's the Devil!' I was like, 'The black guy's working!' |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Brother-in-law of Emma Jacobs. |
| 2 | Son-in-law of David Jacobs. |
| 3 | Clarke Peters worked as a backing vocalist in London during the 1970s. He provided the male vocals for Joan Armatrading's "Love And Affection" ("Oh give me love..."), and Heatwave's "Boogie Nights" ("Got to keep on dancing"). |
| 4 | He has lived in London, England since the 1970's. |
| 5 | Grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. |
| 6 | Father of Joe Jacobs and Guppy (1988-1992) (with Joanna Jacobs) and Max Peters with his wife Penny. |
| 7 | Was nominated for Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Book (Musical) for "Five Guy Named Moe." |
| 8 | He was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for the 1998 season for Best Actor in a Musical for "Chicago!". |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| BBC Proms | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Presenter |
| The Making of the Tunnel: Sabotage | 2016 | Video documentary short | Himself / Sonny |
| Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Roy Orbison (voice) |
| BBC Proms | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Vocalist / Himself - Presenter |
| Free Spirits, Saving America's Wild Horses | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| 20 Years Challenging Impunity: The UN Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal | 2014 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| This Week | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| From Nowhere to Everywhere Through the Eyes of the Horse | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Time Is... Now | 2013 | Documentary | Presenter / Narrator |
| Masterpiece Contemporary | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The One Show | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Wire: The Last Word | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Wire Odyssey | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Tapping the Wire | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Wire: It's All Connected | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Fade to Black: Song of Freedom | 2006 | Video | Himself - Host |
| Blues Odyssey | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Presenter |
| The 53rd Annual Tony Awards | 1999 | TV Special | Himself - Performer |
| Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | 1998 | TV Special documentary | Moe |
| Celebration Concert - It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow | 1995 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Pebble Mill at One | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
| Boon | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
| A Royal Night of One Hundred Stars | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
| Song by Song | 1978-1980 | TV Series | Himself - Music Performer |
| The Rather Reassuring Programme | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
$1.5 Million
