Peter Facinelli
Biography
Peter Facinelli is an American actor who grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, and trained at New York University and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. He made his feature debut in Rebecca Miller's Angela (1996) and drew critical notice in the television movie The Price of Love. His other early films include Can't Hardly Wait (1998), in which he played Mike Dexter, Supernova (2000) and The Scorpion King (2002). From 2002 to 2003 he led the Fox series Fastlane as Donovan Ray, and later appeared on Six Feet Under and Damages. He became widely known as Carlisle Cullen in Twilight (2008) and its sequels, including The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012). Nurse Jackie kept him busy for seven seasons as Dr. Fitch Cooper. He runs Facinelli Films, whose first feature, Loosies (2011), he wrote and starred in, and he played Maxwell Lord on Supergirl in 2015.
52years old
Turns 53 on November 26in 53 days
- Born Queens
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Peter Alexander Joseph Facinelli Jr (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 31
- Career span
- 29 years1996 to 2025
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Big break
Facinelli almost did not read for Twilight. When his agent asked if he wanted to do a vampire movie, he said no, picturing blood and guts and bats in caves, but he was talked into reading the book.
Behind the camera
Facinelli founded the production company Facinelli Films, whose first feature, Loosies, he wrote entirely himself and starred in as a New York pickpocket.
Behind the camera
Facinelli co-wrote the novel After the Red Rain with Barry Lyga and Robert DeFranco in 2015, set on a future Earth running short of resources.
Peter Facinelli movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 22012 Adventure, Drama, Fantasyas Dr. Carlisle Cullen
IMDb rating 5.6286K votes
Most often with
Bill Condon directed two of these films. Nine actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Bill Condon
Also four films together3 more actors
- Nikki ReedThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Twilight (2008)
- Elizabeth ReaserThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Twilight (2008)
- Taylor LautnerThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and Twilight (2008)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Peter Facinelli's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$3.0 billion
17 of the 31 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 31 films: 17 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 12 figure not found.
- 17Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 12Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 98% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$830M27.4% of the total
- 2$712M23.5% of the total
- 3$698M23.0% of the total
- 4$394M13.0% of the total
- 5$165M5.5% of the total
- 6$90M3.0% of the total
- 7$48M1.6% of the total
- 8$36M1.2% of the total
$58.0 millionfrom the other 9 films with a worldwide figure, 2% of the total