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Peter Jacobson

Peter D. Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American

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film and television actor

Actor

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Jacobson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Chicago news anchor Walter Jacobson

Walter Jacobson

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Peter D. Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American

United States

Actor

Walter Jacobson

Walter Jacobson is a Chicago television news personality and former news presenter who hosted FOX Chicago Perspective, a one-hour news and political show that aired Sunday mornings on WFLD-TV....
. He has played a recurring role on Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
as Randy Dworkin, a crusading defense attorney attached to conservative causes. In 2005, Jacobson played the minor role of Jimmy in the Academy Award Best Picture nominated film Good Night, and Good Luck. He also appeared in a guest spot in an episode of Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
as Mr. Foster, who was the center of a Morbidity and Mortality Conference

Morbidity & Mortality

conferences are traditional, recurring conferences held by medical services at academic medical centers and by most large private medical and surgical practices....
in "My Big Bird". He has also appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami is a Spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes....
as the lawyer of a potential suspect. In the mini-series The Lost Room
The Lost Room

The Lost Room is a science fiction miniseries that aired on Sci Fi Channel in the United States. The series revolves around the titular room and some of the hundred everyday items from that room that possess unusual powers....
, he played the drifter Wally Jabrowski, who owned a bus ticket that could teleport anyone to Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup is a city in McKinley County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States. The population was 20,209 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the county seat of McKinley County, New Mexico....
upon touching it. He played Kenny Kagan, the husband of the titular character in The Starter Wife in 2007. He played the humorless high school teacher Mr. Hosney in Transformers.

More recently he has appeared on House
House (TV series)

House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox Broadcasting Company network on November 16, 2004....
, as Chris Taub

Chris Taub

Dr. Chris Taub is a fictional character on the Fox network medical drama House . He is portrayed by Peter Jacobson. He becomes a member of Gregory House's new diagnostic team in the Season 4 episode titled "Games "....
, a plastic surgeon hoping to make Gregory House

Gregory House

Gregory House, Doctor of Medicine, is a fictional character and protagonist of the United States medical drama House . Portrayed by Hugh Laurie, the character is a wiktionary:maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosis at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital....
's diagnostics team. In October 2007, he was confirmed as a regular on the show.

According to IMDB, he is a 1987 graduate of Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private university university located in , United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and Colonial Colleges in the United States....
and a 1991 graduate of Juilliard

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located on the Upper West Side in New York City, is a performing arts music school. It is informally identified as simply Juilliard, and trains in dance, drama, and music....
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Peter Jacobson

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