Peter Jacobson is a renowned actor with a career spanning three decades, featuring high-profile television series and films. He is best known for his role as Dr. Taub on the award-winning TV series HOUSE, alongside Hugh Laurie.
Peter's most recent project is the Paramount Pictures feature film SMILE 2, where he plays Morris, an ER nurse with a mysterious past, alongside Naomi Scott and Drew Barrymore.
Before SMILE 2, he appeared in Columbia Pictures' FLY ME TO THE MOON alongside Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson.
Peter is known for bringing a comedic edge to dramatic roles, having played Proxy Snyder in USA Network's sci-fi thriller COLONY, Lee Drexler in RAY DONOVAN, and Myn Weaver in the STAR WARS series AHSOKA.
He has also worked on several other TV shows, including HBO's GIRLS ON THE BUS, AppleTV's WeCRASHED, FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, NCIS: LOS ANGELES, NEW AMSTERDAM, BILLIONS, BULL, and THE GOOD DOCTOR.
Peter has appeared in numerous TV series and films, including NYPD BLUE, ER, WILL and GRACE, THE GOOD WIFE, IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, and THE AMERICANS.
He has also starred in four HBO films, including 61*, PATERNO, PATH TO WAR, and STRIP SEARCH, directed by notable directors such as Barry Levinson and Sidney Lumet.
Peter has won two Best Actor awards for the short film THE HOUR AFTER WESTERLY in 2021.
He graduated from Juilliard in New York and spent years in the theatre, starring in productions such as A PLAY IS A POEM at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Off-Broadway credits include THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, WAITING FOR LEFTY, and the original New York productions of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE and THE COMPLEAT WRKS OF WLLM SHKSPR (abridged).
Peter attended Brown University and grew up in Chicago.
