New York City-born Peter Facinelli studied with the NYU-affiliated Atlantic Theater Company through NYU Tisch program before making his feature film debut as the devil in Rebecca Miller's "Angela" (1995). The young actor caught the attention of critics and audiences as Bret, a teenage hustler surviving on the mean streets of Hollywood, in the TV-movie "The Price of Love" (Fox, 1995). Facinelli then played Tim Matheson's son and the target of his father's jealous ex-lover (Jennie Garth) in "An Unfinished Affair" (ABC, 1996).

Other TV roles followed, including the pivotal part of the teen who committed suicide in "After Jimmy" (CBS, 1996) and a college dropout pursuing his dream of a life as a fisherman against his family's wishes in "Calm at Sunset", a 1996 CBS presentation of "Hallmark Hall of Fame". Facinelli co-starred with Amanda Peet and Michael Vartan in the AIDS-themed drama "Touch Me" (1997) before co-starring a high school student in two 1998 features, "Dancer, Texas Pop. 81", with Ethan Embry and Breckin Meyer, and "Can't Hardly Wait", about a graduation

ight bash that co-starred Melissa Joan Hart, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jerry O'Connell. More recently Peter has starred along side such heavy hitters as Kevin Spacey and Danny Devito in "The Big Kahuna" and Drew Barrymore in "Riding in cars with boys"

Recently Peter starred in "Fastlane". A one hour action packed television drama on FOX. "Fastlane" also co-stared Bill Belamy and Tiffani Thiessen, and was directed by McG of “Charlie’s Angels.”