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. 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 being a tough guy in How High 2 (now on Netflix), a slightly less tough guy in the video for What's The Price? by The Migos, and a loud and rude guy in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.


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





“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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