Peter Mensah (born 27 August 1959) is a Ghanaian-British actor, best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun, Hidalgo, 300, and Dead Space, and more recently on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance.
Peter Mensah has been doing martial arts since he was 6 years old, growing up in St. Albans, England, just north of London. A former engineer, Mensah came to Canada 11 years ago. He'd worked for British Gas developing gas fields at Morecomb Bay and had done theatre in school. He comes from an academic family. His father, an architect, relocated with his mother to their native Ghana. He only has two younger sisters. Mensah emigrated from Britain to see the world and it was a toss up whether his destination would be Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: PeterMensah
Mr. Mensah was born at Chiraa, Ghana and comes from an academic family. He was born to parents of Brong Ahafo Region here Ghana, and moved to Hertfordshire, England, with his father, an engineer, his mother, a writer and two younger sisters at a young age. Mr. Mensah began practicing martial arts since the age of six.
HIS CAREER
Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven, and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
He did the voice and likeness of Sgt. Zach Hammond in EA's video game Dead Space.
Mensah played the character Oenomaus in Spartacus and was on the Spartacus Panel at Comic Con 2009 and 2011.[2] He had a recurring role in the fifth season of True Blood..
He is the voice of Predaking, the dragon-like leader of the Predacons in Transformers: Prime.
MOVIES
1998: The Long Island Incident as Hugh
2000: Bruiser as Skinhead
2000: The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery as Mort Erwin
2000: Bless the Child as Janitor
2000: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble as Quaka
2000: The Perfect Son as The Tall Gay Basher
2001: Harvard Man as Cyrill The Butler
2001: Jason X as Sgt. Brodski
2002: Triggerman as Boxer
2002: Conviction as T-Bone
2002: Cypher as Vault Security Guard
2003: Tears of the Sun as Terwase
2004: Hidalgo as Jaffa
2007: 300 as Persian Messenger
2006: The Seed
2008: The Incredible Hulk as General Joe Greller
2009: Avatar as Horse Clan Leader
2010: City Of Shoulders as Dr. Lucas Andreisherm
2010: Flynn as Special Forces Captain
2013: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising as Predaking (voice)
2014: 300: Rise of an Empire as Artemesia's Trainer / Persian Messenger
SERIES
1995: Nancy Drew as Simon (1 episode, Welcome To Callisto)
1997: Exhibit: A Secrets Of Forensic Science as Charles Ssenyonga (1 episode, "Bad Blood")
1997: Once A Thief as Petrosians Assistant (1 episode, "Macdaddy")
1998: La Femme Nikita as Taylor (1 episode, "First Mission")
1998: F/X: The Series as Vincent (1 episode, "Chiller")
1999: Highlander: The Raven as Raphael (1 episode, "A Matter Of Time")
1999: Earth: Final Conflict as Alan (1 episode, "Emancipation")
2000: The City as Lang (1 episode, "Gorky Parkette")
2000: Twich City as Prison Guard (1 Episode, "The Return Of The Cat Food Killer")
2000: Relic Hunter as Witch Doctor (1 episode, "Cross OF Voodoo")
2001: Blue Murder as Marlon Anderson (2 episodes)
2001: A Nero Wolfe Mystery ("The Doorbell Rang," "Over My Dead Body")
2001–02: Witchblade as Hecter "Moby" Mobius (2 episodes)
2002: Tracker as Marak (1 episode, "Native Son")
2005: Star Trek: Enterprise as Daniel Greaves (2 episodes)
2008: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as General Perry (2 episodes)
2010: Spartacus: Blood and Sand as Oenomaus "Doctore" (13 episodes)
2011: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena as Oenomaus "Doctore" (6 episodes)
2012: Spartacus: Vengeance as Oenomaus "Doctore" (10 episodes)
2012: True Blood as Kibwe
2013: Spartacus: War of the Damned as Oenomaus 'Doctore' (1 episode, cameo)
2013: Burn Notice as Marco Cabral (1 episode)
2013: Transformers: Prime as Predaking (voice)
2015-16: Sleepy Hollow as Hidden One (7 episodes)
Sources: IMDb & Wikipedia
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