Ethan Gregory Peck (born March 2, 1986) is an American actor. He is the grandson of actor
Gregory Peck and Greta Kukkonen, the elder Peck's first wife. In 2019, he played a young
Spock in ''
Star Trek: Discovery'' (2019), a role he has reprised for the television series ''
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'' (2022present).
Career
Peck had many television appearances as a young actor, including a younger
Michael Kelso
Michael Christopher Kelso is a fictional character and one of the five male leads on Fox Network's ''That '70s Show'', portrayed by Ashton Kutcher. Tall, lanky and long-haired, Kelso had been accepted as the local idiot until he moved to Chicago ...
(played by
Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher (; born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, producer, entrepreneur, and former model. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a People's Choice Award, and nominations for two Young Artist Awards, a ...
) in ''
That '70s Show
''That '70s Show'' is an American television period teen sitcom that aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focuses on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin, ...
''. In his first film role at age 9, he co-starred in the made-for-TV film ''Marshal Law'' as the son of
Jimmy Smits
Jimmy L. Smits (born July 9, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama '' L.A. Law'', NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama ''NYPD Blue'', Matt Santos ...
' character. He later appeared in the 1999 movie ''
Passport to Paris
''Passport to Paris'' is a 1999 American direct-to-video film starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who also serve as the film's executive producers. It is the first of seven direct-to-video films produced by Tapestry Films to star the Olsens.
Pl ...
'' starring
Mary-Kate Olsen and
Ashley Olsen
Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American businesswoman and former actress. She began her acting career at the age of nine months, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen in the television sitco ...
, and was Mary-Kate's first on-screen kiss.
Peck co-starred with
Adam Rothenberg and
Mariah Carey in the 2008 film ''
Tennessee
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'', followed by a co-starring role opposite
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author and narrator of films, theatre, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films such as ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), '' Cro ...
and
Bebe Neuwirth in the film ''Adopt a Sailor''. He won the award for "Best Actor" at the 2009
Sonoma International Film Festival
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for his portrayal of "Sailor".
From 2009 to 2010, he starred on the television series ''
10 Things I Hate About You
''10 Things I Hate About You'' is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirs ...
'' on
ABC Family.
In 2012, Peck played Prince Maxon for the pilot adaptation of the popular book ''
The Selection
''The Selection'' is a young adult novel by Kiera Cass first published on April 14, 2012 by HarperCollins. It is the first in a five-book series, followed by '' The Elite'' (2013), ''The One'' (2014), ''The Heir'' (2015) and ''The Crown'' (May ...
'', but was later replaced by newcomer
Michael Malarkey
Michael Karim Malarkey (born 21 June 1983) is a British-American actor and musician. He is best known for playing the role of Enzo in the series ''The Vampire Diaries''.
Early life
Malarkey was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to an Irish American f ...
. Neither the first nor second pilot was picked up to go to series.
In 2015, Peck became a spokesperson for fashion brand
Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo (5 June 1898 – 7 August 1960) was an Italian shoe designer and the founder of luxury goods high-end retailer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. An innovative shoe designer, Salvatore Ferragamo established a reputation in the 1930s. ...
and appeared in a number of print editorials representing the Italian brand. He was also featured in ''Coming Home to Hollywood'', a short film about the brand's 100th anniversary.
In 2016, Peck starred in ''
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
''The Curse of Sleeping Beauty'' is a 2016 American fantasy horror film directed by Pearry Reginald Teo and written by Teo alongside Josh Nadler. The film stars Ethan Peck, India Eisley and Natalie Hall. It is based on a comic book of the same ...
'' and ''Tell Me How I Die''.
In 2017, Peck was cast in a comedy, ''The Honor List'', alongside
Meghan Rienks,
Sasha Pieterse
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,
Arden Cho
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Early lif ...
and
Karrueche Tran
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. The movie was released in 2018.
Peck portrayed
Spock in the second season of ''
Star Trek: Discovery''. In May 2020 it was announced that Peck would reprise his role as Spock in a spin-off, ''
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''.
Personal life
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Peck is the son of Stephen Peck—a former actor, documentary filmmaker and
Vietnam
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veteran who is president and CEO of U.S. Veterans Initiative—and abstract artist Francine Matarazzo. He is the grandson of actor
Gregory Peck and his Finnish wife, Greta Kukkonen. Peck attended private schools
Campbell Hall and
Harvard-Westlake in
Studio City
Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass. It is named after the studio lot that was established in the area by film producer Mack Sennett in 1927, ...
. He excelled in athletics and learned to play classical cello.
He has a half sister from his mother's second marriage,
Marisa Matarazzo, who is a novelist and creative writing professor at
Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art. The main campus is located in the former IBM Aerospace headquarte ...
in Los Angeles.
After high school, Peck attended the
Tisch School of the Arts
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University.
Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...
at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
, where he participated in the Experimental Theater Wing for three years before leaving to pursue his acting career.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Video games
Other multimedia
References
External links
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1986 births
Living people
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from Los Angeles
Harvard-Westlake School alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
American people of Finnish descent
American people of English descent
American people of Irish descent
American people of Scottish descent