Peter Wingfield Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Peter: I was well into my medical training before I got the strength to actually say no, this is what I want to do. I want to be an actor. So that's what I should pursue. Yeah, it was quite a long way into my medical training. It was actually five and a half years into my medical training.

Peter: I'm a professional liar. I pretend to be somebody who clearly I'm not.

Peter: If you can tell I'm acting I'm not really good at it.

Peter: I always play bad guys. If you have an English accent, you must be the bad guy. I think that is a fundamental basic precept in the North American mind. Anyone who speaks with an English accent cannot be trusted.

Peter: I found it all rather exciting. It’s a wonderful feeling when your work is taken so seriously.

Trivia

Peter is allergic to cats, dogs, horses, cows, and hay.

Peter participated in a national pole-vaulting competition.

Peter was married to his first wife, Juilette, in 1987; they divorced in 1997.

In 1990 Peter won the BBC’s Carleton Hobbs Award for radio.

Peter wrote the story A Time Of Innocents for the Highlander anthology An Evening at Joe’s.

He received training at The National Youth Theatre of Wales, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, Brasenose College, Oxford and St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London.

Peter is the Welsh National Trampoline champion.

Plays saxophone and flute.