Full Name: Peter Gallagher
Date of Birth: August 19, 1955
Place of Birth: Armonk, New York
Father: Advertising businessman
Mother: Bacteriologist; suffering with Alzheimer’s disease
Brother(s): Paula Harwood
Spouse: Paula Harwood, music-video producer; married 1982
Son(s): James Gallagher; born 1990
Daughter(s): Catherine Gallagher; born July 1993
Education: Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts;
B.A., Economics, 1977 University of California, Berkeley, California;
Attended one semester New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Actors Studio, New York
Claim to Fame: Played John, the arrogant, adulterous, Yuppie lawyer in Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape (1989)