Peter Szymon Serafinowicz (/sɛrəˈfɪnəwɪtʃ/; born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer, voice artist, singer and director. He is best known for playing Pete in Shaun of the Dead, dubbing the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and for appearing in a variety of British and American comedy series.

Biography

Serafinowicz is married to actress Sarah Alexander. Their first child, a son named Sam, was born in March 2007. They also have a daughter named Phoebe. Peter's brother, James, is a writer and director, and can be seen wearing his Liverpool Blue Coat School uniform at the beginning and end of each episode of the first series of Look Around You and is the person who always gets choked by the robot talk-show host Michael-6 during the Michael-6: The Robot Talk Show Host sketches of The Peter Serafinowicz Show. Serafinowicz's sister Helen is married to Graham Linehan.

In October 2007, Serafinowicz dropped his attempt to use the Human Rights Act to prevent the publication of details revealing his Belarusian grandfather as the first man in Britain to go on trial for Nazi war crimes under the War Crimes Act. Szymon Serafinowicz Sr. was charged with allegedly murdering three Jews while a police chief during the Nazi occupation of his native Belarus in World War II. He was found unfit for trial on grounds of dementia in 1997, and died later that year.

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