Peter Youngblood Hills
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Peter Youngblood Hills | |
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| Born | 28 January 1978 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Children | 1 |
Peter Youngblood Hills (born 28 January 1978) is an Anglo-American actor.[1] He is perhaps best known for his supporting role of Sgt. Darrell "Shifty" Powers in HBO’s World War II mini-series, Band of Brothers.[1]
Early life
[edit]He was born in Johannesburg, to an American mother (raised in North East Tennessee, USA) and English father (who was raised in Lusaka, Zambia). Both parents were trained as classical singers. His parents separated when he was a child and his father remarried his stepmother, a lifetime choir master and music teacher. He has three half siblings from his mother’s previous marriage. He lived most of his early life between America and the United Kingdom and at age 13 attended Mill Hill School, a boarding school in Mill Hill, North London and completed his education to sixth form in 1996.
Career
[edit]Peter Youngblood Hills has been a professional actor since 1996. He started off his career in acting with various music videos, TV commercials and theater before beginning a career in film. He has appeared in various films like The Beach and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells. His big break was when he appeared in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Band of Brothers.[2]
He also appeared in a 2002 film, AKA with his Band of Brothers co-star Matthew Leitch. In 2003, he starred as Steve Warson in Michel Vaillant. In 2006, he starred in the Foyle's War Series 4 episode titled "Invasion". Hills had a brief cameo in The Wolf of Wall Street.[1]
Leonardo DiCaprio asked him to do the stylized cinematography for his environmental documentary The 11th Hour. It focused on the conservation and preservation of Life.[3][citation needed]
Due to his role in Band of Brothers his interests and personal life became focused on 'the recovery from war' which led to a 12-year mentorship with Vietnam Veteran, Sensei and Interfaith Rev. Clifford Ishigaki.[4][5][6][7]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2014 | Faith | Svetli | (Short) |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | Audience Member #1 | |
| 2005 | The Marksman | Hargreaves | direct-to-DVD |
| Submerged | Doc Shock | direct-to-DVD | |
| 2003 | Michel Vaillant | Steve Warson | |
| 2002 | AKA | Benjamin | |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Al (billed as Peter Youngblood-Hills) | (TV Movie), a joint project of BBC Films and HBO |
| The Beach | Zeph | ||
| 1998 | Hideous Kinky | Hippy |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Band of Brothers | Darrell C. ('Shifty') Powers | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | Foyle's War | James Taylor | 1 episode, Invasion |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Movies". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Peter Youngblood Hills". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Dargis, Manohla (17 August 2007). "Helpful Hints for Saving the Planet". The New York Times.
- ^ http://wellnessworksglendale.org/?page_id=1242[full citation needed]
- ^ https://www.kofc.org/en//index.html[full citation needed]
- ^ https://ruskinschool.com[full citation needed]
- ^ Winkelman, M (2014). "Psychedelics as medicines for substance abuse rehabilitation: Evaluating treatments with LSD, Peyote, Ibogaine and Ayahuasca". Current Drug Abuse Reviews. 7 (2): 101–16. doi:10.2174/1874473708666150107120011. PMID 25563446.
External links
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- 1978 births
- South African male film actors
- American male television actors
- South African people of English descent
- South African people of American descent
- American expatriates in South Africa
- Living people
- People educated at Mill Hill School
- Male actors from Johannesburg
- 20th-century English male actors
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- 21st-century English male actors