Peter Arpesella

Peter Arpesella is an actor and award winning writer based in Los Angeles, originally from Rimini, Italy. His family owned the historical Grand Hotel, where family friend, Federico Fellini, set his award winning Amarcord. After his successful excursion in the investment banking world, Peter discovered that storytelling is a lot more fun and moved to the States to work as an actor and writer. His one man show, Life & Me… What A Couple!, ran at HERE Performance Space in New York City; he hosted Cult Network Italia, for Stream TV; worked with Michael J. Fox on Spin City, and was Tom Cruise’s Italian coach in Mission Impossible III. Peter can be seen in the block buster comedy hit Think Like A Man, and in the acclaimed TV show, Mad Men. Peter’s voice can be heard in the English version of the Oscar winning Life Is Beautiful. His short story, The Little Old Lady, is published in Frightful Stages by Hayworth Press and the Psychotherapy Patient Journal. Among others, Peter wrote an original screenplay that won the Grand Jury Prize at the new York International Film Festival, which inspired the story of Good Like This. Peter loves to sail and always loves a good laugh. He’s a volunteer recording audiobooks for Learning Ally, helping TreePeople, Heal The Bay and Habitat for Humanity. He lives in Los Angeles with his actress/writer wife, Annie Wood, and their dog-ter, Lucy.