Vincent Kartheiser

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Biography

Known to audiences worldwide as spitfire advertising executive "Pete Campbell" on 'Matthew Weiner and grew up surrounded by his works.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 05 May 1979
  • Place of birth
  • Minneapolis
  • Residence
  • Minneapolis·Minnesota·Los Angeles
  • Spouses
  • Alexis Bledel
  • Education
  • University of California· Los Angeles

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

Has four sisters and one brother.

Failed the 9th grade.

Born to Janet Marie Gruye and James Ralph Kartheiser, he has four sisters, Andrea, Colette, Elise, and Theresa and a brother, Nathan.

Is the youngest out of 6 siblings.

Before he got married, he told The Guardian that he often wore a wedding ring in his private life so that he "can flash it to warn people off if [he] need[s] to," and that he has "never been monogamous" in any relationship.

In an April 2010 interview with The Guardian newspaper, Kartheiser revealed that after experiencing some of the material excesses of Hollywood (such as awards shows where already-wealthy people receive gift bags full of expensive free items), he started a process of shedding his possessions that includes selling or giving away most of what he owns. He told the interviewer that he now no longer owns a car (even though he lives in Los Angeles, a city that is notoriously difficult to get around in without one) and he moved into a very small one-room house that doesnt even have a toilet in it.

He got engaged to Alexis Bledel (March 20, 2013) and then married in June 2014.

(July 2013) Minneapolis, Minnesota: Starring in stage version of Pride and Prejudice as the romantic lead, Mr. Darcy, at the Guthrie Theater in his hometown where he got is start as an actor

He has German, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, and Luxembourgian ancestry. His matrilineal great-grandmother, Stella Louise Richter, immigrated from Blonie, Poland, with her parents, Stanley Richter and Anna Petrowski.

Good friends with Monica Keena.

A scene he filmed with Natasha Gregson Wagner for Another Day in Paradise , involving fellatio and rough sex, had to be cut from the movie in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. The scene is included in the uncensored directors cut on the flipside of the DVD.

Quotes

I was such a nerd when I was younger and I may look different now and,girls may like me, but I still feel like that nerd.

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