Biography

Peter Reznikoff was born in New York City. His father was painter, Misha Reznikoff, and his mother, the photographer, Genevieve Naylor. Exposed to a number of well know actors, painters, photographers and musicians, as a child - all friends of his parents - it was only natural he would find a career in the arts. By the time he was 5, he knew he wanted to be actor, though his entire perspective on acting changed at 16, after seeing the film version of Laurence Olivier's Othello. It was a jaw dropping experience that would lead him on a lifelong quest to acquire the technical skills so effortlessly achieved by Olivier. But more than that, it was Olivier's ability to execute any acting choice with fearless freedom that made him realize how important it was to be a thoroughly well trained actor. His teenage apprenticeship toward that goal began with a lifelong devotion to the study of acting, voice and speech. At 18, he starting acting training with Lee Strasberg and by 19 became a student at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While living in London, he was able to experience and study Olivier's spectacular technical wizardry in the last of his four major leading stage roles. Returning to American, and with the goal of fusing both the English and American approach to acting, he continued his studies in New York City with Lee Strasberg, David Legrant, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen,Wynn Handman and Patsy Rodenburg. He also studied improvisation with Compass Theatre creator, David Shepherd. He made his professional debut in Richard III with the New York Shakespeare Festival. On Broadway he was in Irena's Vow. Off Broadway credits include Irena's Vow, a returned to the New York Shakespeare Festival, with another production of Richard III and the three parts of Henry Vl. Other Off Broadway productions include,Faye Drummond The Club, Irena's Vow, Ghosts, Romeo and Hamlet, Far and Wide, All The Rage, Harry The Hunk On His Way Out, EST's One Act Festival, Three Men On A Base, The Lost Box of The Caterers, Compulsion, The Truth, Rhinestone, Venus Observed The Cold Wind and the Warm, Pavilion Reflected Glory, Troublemaker. Regional Theatre credits include 33 Variations, Something Intangible, The Ride Down Mount Morgan and Arturo Ui. His appearances on film and television include, Limitless, Scenes From The Underground, The Terrible One, Business, Silence Patton, A Polite Bribe, Sheer, Daydreamer, Trojans, What She's Having, Dinning Table, Marathon Man, The Quinns, Guiding Light, and All My Children. A New York based Voice-Over artist,his voice can be heard on numerous commercials, documentary narrations, and books on tape.
- IMDb mini biography by: Susan Shacter

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