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Peter Berg

Peter Berg
Peter Berg
Born: Mar 11, 1964 in Manhattan, New York, New York
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Last Seduction, Cop Land, A Midnight Clear
First Major Screen Credit: Never on Tuesday (1988)
18 Videos for Peter Berg
Lions for Lambs (2007) F.T.W. (1994) Going Overboard (1989)
Smokin' Aces (2007) The Last Seduction (1994) Miracle Mile (1989)
Collateral (2004) A Case for Murder (1993) Race for Glory (1989)
Girl 6 (1996) A Midnight Clear (1992) Shocker (1989)
The Great White Hype (1996) Crooked Hearts (1991) Tale of Two Sisters (1989)
Across the Moon (1994) Late for Dinner (1991) The Heart of Dixie (1989)
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Biography:

Onscreen from the late '80s, actor Peter Berg first made a memorable impression in A Midnight Clear (1992), playing one of a group of soldiers stationed in Germany during World War II. The muscular, strong-jawed actor had his real screen breakthrough with John Dahl's critically acclaimed The Last Seduction (1994), a neo-noir that cast him as Linda Fiorentino's unwitting, hormonally misguided accomplice.

Berg's subsequent roles tended to be in films of middling quality, and it was for his work on the popular TV series {~Chicago Hope} that he received the most recognition. In 1998, Berg made his feature directorial debut with Very Bad Things, a black comedy starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, and Leland Orser as a group of men behaving badly.

The film, which was shown at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals, received a fairly mixed critical reception. Nonetheless, Berg continued to be a presence behind the camera. In 2000, he created Wonderland, an edgy dramatic television series set in an asylum. While the ABC show recieved rave reviews and garnered a cult following, it failed to deliver ratings and was quickly cancelled. Berg finally found himself with a hit on his hands in 2003 with The Rundown.

Starring The Rock and Seann William Scott, the Berg-helmed action comedy was well-received by critics and managed to score well at the box-office. In 2004, Berg began work on his third directorial effort, Friday Night Lights, a football film he also scripted. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide.