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Peter Paige
Paige in 2008
Born	Peter Michael Paige (1969-06-20) June 20, 1969 (age 55) West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Alma mater	Boston University
Occupations	Actor director writer producer
Years active	1996–present

Peter Paige (born June 20, 1969) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his portrayal of Emmet Honeycutt in the gay drama Queer as Folk. His debut as director and writer was on the film Say Uncle.

Early life and education

Paige was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Boston University School of Theatre with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree summa cum laude.

Career

Best known for his role as Emmett Honeycutt on Showtime's hit series Queer as Folk, Paige's other television credits include Will & Grace, Time of Your Life, Girlfriends, Caroline in the City, American Dad!, Related, Grey's Anatomy, The Closer and Without a Trace. His first audition in Los Angeles earned him a guest-starring role on Suddenly Susan.

Paige spent summer 2004 starring in his feature directorial debut, Say Uncle, alongside Kathy Najimy, Anthony Clark, Melanie Lynskey, Lisa Edelstein and Gabrielle Union. Other film credits include Don McKellar's Childstar with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Dave Foley, Showtime's Our America (which debuted at Sundance in 2002), indie Pop and the award-winning shorts The Four of Us and The Shooting.

An accomplished stage actor, Paige has appeared at major regional theatres throughout the country, most notably in world premieres at La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, and Playwrights Horizons. He has performed nearly every genre of play, from the Greeks to Shakespeare to contemporary American work. Plays on his resume include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Rivals, Secret Agents, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Pantophobia, his two-man show written and performed with Abraham Higginbotham.

On February 6, 2013, it was announced that The Fosters, a show that Paige created along with Bradley Bredeweg, and produced by Jennifer Lopez and through production company, Nuyorican Productions was picked up by the ABC Family. The series follows the lives of the Foster family, an interracial lesbian couple who are married and raising biological and adoptive children together. The series began airing on June 3, 2013. On January 10, 2017, the network announced a fifth season was picked up.

In 2020, Paige made a guest appearance on Station 19, a spin-off of Grey's Anatomy.

In 2019, Paige wrote and directed the television film The Thing About Harry, which premiered on Freeform in 2020.

Personal life

Paige is openly gay, but keeps his relationship status private.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Stage

Off Broadway (partial credits)

• High Concepts (with Robert Sean Leonard) --- Malaparte --- John Ruocco
• Somebody --- Playwrights Horizon --- Yana Landowne
• Eastern Standard --- Equator --- Easley
• Landscape of the Body --- Judith Anderson --- Lisa Goldsmith
• Tartuffe --- Biggs/Rosatti --- Alison Laslett

Regional

• The History Boys --- The Ahmanson Theatre --- Tom Irwin
• Eden Lane (World Premiere) --- La Jolla Playhouse --- Des McAnuff
• A Midsummer Night's Dream --- Portland Center Stage --- Elizabeth Huddle
• Pantophobia --- HBO Workspace --- Luke Yankee
• Twisted --- The Lex --- Jesse Carmichael
• The Rivals --- Portland Center Stage --- Elizabeth Huddle
• Blue Window --- Edinburgh Theatre Festival --- Richard Seer/Eve Muson
• Secret Agents (Premiere) --- Artemis Productions --- Beth Harper
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown --- Charles Playhouse --- John Ruocco
• Twelfth Night --- Huntington Theatre --- Robert Morgan

References

1. Peter Paige Is an Open Book by Mike Ricci, October 11, 2006
2. Lash, Jolie (6 February 2013). "Jennifer Lopez-Produced Show — The Fosters — Picked Up By ABC Family". Access Hollywood. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
3. Snarker, Dorothy (6 February 2013). "Two mom family drama "The Fosters" gets picked up". Archived from the original on 15 June 2013.
4. Surette, Tim (15 April 2015). "ABC Family Sets Summer Premiere Dates for Pretty Little Liars, The Fosters, Melissa & Joey, and More". tv.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
5. Holloway, Daniel (January 10, 2017). "'The Fosters' Renewed for Season 5 by Freeform". Variety. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
6. Danielle Turchiano, "Peter Paige on Writing Titular ‘The Thing About Harry’ Character as Pansexual". Variety, February 14, 2020.
7. "The full Paige". 2 June 2001.

External links

• Peter Paige at IMDb
• Showtime's Queer as Folk at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2006-06-08)

• 1969 births
• Living people
• American male film actors
• American male stage actors
• American male television actors
• American LGBTQ film directors
• LGBTQ television directors
• American gay actors
• LGBTQ people from Connecticut
• Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni
• Male actors from Connecticut
• People from West Hartford, Connecticut
• Film directors from Connecticut