Peter Macon

Peter Macon is an American actor born in Cincinnati and raised in Minneapolis. After appearing in school plays there, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and earned an acting master's degree from the Yale School of Drama. Over nearly three decades he performed with Twin Cities companies including Penumbra, Illusion and Children's Theatre Company, and he played Othello at the Guthrie Theater, later taking the role to Dublin, Colorado and Oregon. On television he has guest starred in Law & Order, Dexter, Bosch, SEAL Team and Shameless, among others. From 2017 to 2022 he portrayed Lt. Commander Bortus in the Fox/Hulu series The Orville, and in 2021 he began voicing Preston Lloyd on Family Guy. He won a Primetime Emmy in 2002 for narrating an episode of Animated Tales of the World. He also played Raka in the 2024 film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.