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Biography
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.
Early life
Mensah was born at Chiraa, Ghana and comes from an academic family. He was born to parents of Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana, and moved to Hertfordshire, England, with his father, an engineer, his mother, a writer and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah began practicing martial arts since the age of six.
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. 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.
Filmography
- 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)
Video games
- 2008: Dead Space as Zach Hammond