Peter Frechette
| Peter Frechette | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 3, 1956 Warwick, Rhode Island |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Partner(s) | David Warren |
Peter Frechette (/frəˈʃɛt/ frə-SHET; born October 3, 1956) is an American actor. He is a prolific stage actor with two Tony nominations for Eastern Standard and Our Country's Good, and frequently stars in the plays of Richard Greenberg. He is well known on TV for playing hacker George on the NBC series The Profiler and Peter Montefiore on Thirtysomething. In film, he's known for playing T-Bird Lewis DiMucci in the cult musical Grease 2.
Raised in Coventry, Rhode Island, Frechette is the youngest of five children. His father was an efficiency expert and his mother a nurse. Frechette earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the University of Rhode Island.
Frechette first appeared on the professional stage at the Edinburgh Fridge Festival as part of the Rhode Island Summer Ensemble, starring with Chel Chenier in the comedy "Pontifications on Pigtails and Puberty" in 1979. He received high praise in 1981 for his work in two different productions of Harry Ruby's Songs My Mother Never Sang. The same year he starred in the One Act off-Broadway production of In Cahoots, part of the Three Hopefuls MARATHON (featuring two other one act productions). He left to work in Los Angeles, but returned in 1984 to star in Bob Merrill's Musical 'We're Home" and again in 1987's revised production of "Flora , The Red Menace" (he also recorded songs for the cast album).
In 1988, he returned to live in New York City to take the lead role of Drew Paley in the off-Broadway production of "Eastern Standard", by Richard Greenberg and costarring Patricia Clarkson, Dylan Baker, and Kevin Conroy. The show transferred to Broadway in December 1989, and he remained in the cast throughout the run despite filming the television series Dream Street simultaneously in New Jersey (he filmed every day and performed every night for three months). Frechette earned the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and Theater World Awards for best actor, and was nominated for a Tony Award. The same year he starred in the American Place Theater's Off-Broadway Production of Hyde in Hollywood (he would return to the role of communist screenwriter Jake Springer for a television version of the play two years later)
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