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Marcus Giamatti

Biography

Marcus Giamatti

Overview

  • Born
    October 3, 1961 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  • Height
    6′ 2″ (1.88 m)

Mini bio

  • Marcus is best known for the role of "Peter Gray", on the long-running CBS drama Judging Amy (1999).

    Marcus is also an accomplished, professional bass guitarist, playing in several bands in Los Angeles, including the alternative country artist Olivea Watson (2007 Gibson Artist Of The Year). Marcus is also a session musician, and a member of Musician's Local 47.

    His extensive theater credits include stints on Broadway in Horton Foote's "Young Man From Atlanta", and "Measure For Measure" at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway, Marcus has appeared in numerous shows at MTC, The Lambs and WPA. Regionally, he has worked at The Guthrie, Seattle Rep., Yale Rep., Long Wharf, over 20 productions at The Williamstown Theater Festival, Hartford Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman, and The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Delilah Jones

Family

  • Spouses
      Bree Watson(October 13, 2007 - present) (2 children)
      Kathryn Meisle(June 30, 1990 - ?) (divorced)
  • Parents
      Bart Giamatti
  • Relatives
      Paul Giamatti(Sibling)

Trivia

  • He is the older brother of Paul Giamatti.
  • He is the son of Toni Marilyn (Smith), an actress, and Bart Giamatti, late president of Yale University and the major league baseball commissioner who banished Pete Rose from baseball.
  • Marcus' great grandfather, Commodore Alfred Brown, was the first and only man to swim the Panama Canal. This was accomplished in 1913, before the canal was opened to commercial traffic.
  • Commodore Brown also assisted Houdini, placing chains and locks on his trunk, and then helping to lower him into one of Manhattan's rivers. He was there as well to rescue Houdini, if he needed it.
  • Marcus majored in African Ethnomusicology at Bowdoin College, writing his thesis on Ashanti Tribal Funeral Music.

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