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name: "Peter Hermann"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 August 1967"
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average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T07:54:25.155382+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Hermann

Actor. Born 15 August 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 August 1967, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2006–2013
- **Also known as:** Karl Peter Frederic Albert Hermann , پیتر هرمن
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (3), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, History 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $176m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925567, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/50117

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Philomena*](https://film.one/film/philomena.md) (82)

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## Biography

Peter Hermann is an American actor. Born on 15 August 1967 in New York City, he spent much of his early childhood in Germany before returning to the United States at the age of ten. He studied at Yale University.

Hermann began his career in the late 1990s with roles in television, including a recurring part as defence attorney Trevor Langan on *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* from 2002. He has appeared in films such as *United 93* (2006), *Edge of Darkness* (2010), *Trouble with the Curve* (2012) and *Philomena* (2013), in which he played Pete Olsson. His other notable television work includes Charles Brooks in *Younger* (2015–2021) and Jack Boyle in *Blue Bloods* (2012–2024). He has also performed on Broadway.

In 2004 he married actress Mariska Hargitay, whom he met on the set of *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Philomena* (2013), Fi1m 82, as Pete Olsson — [page](https://film.one/film/philomena.md)
- *Fringe* (2008), Fi1m 80, as Grant Davidson — [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md)
- *30 Rock* (2006), Fi1m 86, as Gray — [page](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md)
- *United 93* (2006), Fi1m 88, as Jeremy Glick — [page](https://film.one/film/united-93.md)

## Also known for

- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), Trevor Langan
- *American Dad!* (2005), (voice)
- *Sex and the City* (1998), David
- *Elementary* (2012), Detective Craig Basken
- *Edge of Darkness* (2010), Sanderman
- *Trouble with the Curve* (2012), Greg
- *White Collar* (2009), Wilson Mailer
- *Our Idiot Brother* (2011), Terry

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