Fringe Fan

Joshua Jackson stars as Peter Bishop in J.J. Abrams' science fiction television show Fringe.

Joshua Jackson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but spent the first eight years of his life in California before returning to Canada. When he was 11 years old Joshua decided he wanted to become an actor. His mother, a casting director, took him to his first audition in hopes of discouraging him from following a path that has proven to be treacherous for many others before him. Not to be deterred, Joshua earned a role in a commercial for Keebler's potato chips. Joshua Jackson has appeared in movies including "The Mighty Ducks", "Andre", "Scream 2", and others. Jackson may be best known as Pacey Witter from Dawson's Creek.

Peter Bishop

As the neglected son of a real-life mad scientist, Peter Bishop had a less than idyllic childhood. After Walter Bishop's institutionalization, Peter set out to make himself as different from his father as he could. Peter is a college drop-out who passed for several months as a physics professor... an intuitive mathematician who has nevertheless lost his shirt and more in the casinos of Europe and America... a jack-of-all-trades who has held every imaginable job from bouncer to biochemical engineer.

Peter's discontent has led him around the world, unwilling to stay anywhere for long. But his employment as a civilian consultant for the FBI, in order to supervise his mentally fractured father, could force him to put down reluctant roots. Against his better judgment, Peter now finds himself following in his father's dangerous footsteps - while assisting a government agency that holds a file containing information about his own possible criminal activity.