Jay Peterson
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Hi, I'm Jay.

If you've wandered over here, you probably either saw me in a movie or read something I wrote. Either way, welcome aboard.

Acting and writing is pretty much what I do these days. I'm 6'7", with the build of a dumpster and hands that can palm a basketball. I have resting war face, and when I do smile, there's a certain "have them bathed and brought to my tent" quality about it. Movie people call it "presence."

I've done other stuff too, most of them either artsy or violent, occasionally both. I've been a Renaissance Festival performer, a bouncer, a chess coach, a firearms instructor, a fight choreographer, a leatherworker, and a props designer. I'm also a USMC veteran, with combat tours as a machine gunner in Iraq and Afghanistan under my belt.

Film-wise, I've most recently made appearances as a possessed corpse in The Conjuring: The devil made me do it, a tough guy in How High 2, and a slightly less tough guy in the video for What's The Price? by The Migos.


I'm represented by Alan Artists.
And what do you know, I'm even SAG-AFTRA. What a world we live in.




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“All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.” - Syd Field

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