# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-gallagher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:06:29.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-gallagher"
name: "Peter Gallagher"
slug: "peter-gallagher"
description: "Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007, and recurring roles in television such as Deputy Chief William Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,  Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama Californication, Nick on the Netflix series Grace & Frankie, and Director of Clandestine Services (DCS) Arthur Campbell on Covert Affairs. He also is known for his roles in the films Bob Roberts (1992), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), American Beauty (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), and Palm Springs (2020). In musical theatre, his best-known roles are that of Sky Masterson in the 1992 Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls and Oscar Jaffe in the 2015 Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Gallagher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.443196004993758
  historical:           25.35473333333334
  currentAttention:     16.36
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001251"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.petergallagher.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump