# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-petersen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:00:50.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-petersen"
name: "William Petersen"
slug: "william-petersen"
description: "William Louis Petersen is an American retired actor. He is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS drama thriller series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award; he was further nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards as a producer of the show. He reprised his role as Gil Grissom in the sequel CSI: Vegas, which premiered on October 6, 2021."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamPetersen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.8571
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump