Peter Stickles

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title: "Peter Stickles" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1976-births", "american-gay-actors", "american-male-film-actors", "american-male-television-actors", "living-people", "male-actors-from-new-york-city", "people-from-oswego,-new-york"] description: "American actor (born 1976)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stickles" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actor (born 1976) ::

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Field	Value
name	Peter Stickles
birth_date
birth_place	Oswego, New York
occupation	Actor
spouse
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|name = Peter Stickles |image = |caption = |birth_date = |birth_place = Oswego, New York | occupation = Actor | spouse = Peter Stickles (born October 8, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the voyeuristic Caleb in the John Cameron Mitchell film Shortbus and as Damian, leader of a gay vampire cult, in the Here TV original series The Lair.

Career

Stickles was cast in Shortbus in 2003 from amongst some 400 actors who submitted audition tapes for the film, which was initially known as "Sex Film Project." No script had been written prior to casting and the story was built out of improvisational sessions once the cast was in place. The voyeuristic aspect of Caleb's character grew in part out of Stickles's own interests at the time. "I was exploring sex clubs at the time and not necessarily participating but watching from afar. I think John Cameron Mitchell was attracted to the idea of this whole voyeuristic aspect of the character. ... How far would you go to touch somebody from afar?"{{cite news | last = Hartl | first = John | title = Willing to go along for a long, circuitous ride | work = The Seattle Times | date = 2006-10-20 | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2003312892_shortbusint20.html | access-date = 2008-03-25}}

Stickles, along with others in the cast, was nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast.

Stickles stars in The Lair, which premiered on here! in June 2007. His character, Damian, is the leader of a gay vampire cult. The series, although not critically well-reviewed,{{Cite news | title =Vampires Everywhere | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date =2007-06-01 | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07152/787843-352.stm | last =Swindoll | first =Jeff | title =DVD Review: The Lair: Complete First Season | publisher =Monstersandcritics.com | date =2007-10-15 | url =http://dvd.monstersandcritics.com/reviews/article_1365521.php/DVD_Review_The_Lair_Complete_First_Season | access-date =2007-11-24 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071204111411/http://dvd.monstersandcritics.com/reviews/article_1365521.php/DVD_Review_The_Lair_Complete_First_Season | archive-date =2007-12-04 | url-status =dead | last =Oliver | first =David | title =DVD Review: Lair, The - Season 1 | publisher =CHUD.com | date =2007-11-11 | url =http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=dvd&id=12338 | access-date = 2007-11-24}} was renewed for a second season which premiered in late 2008.{{cite web | last =Nordyke | first =Kimberly | title =Here! comes a lot of originality | work =The Hollywood Reporter | date =2007-09-28 | url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i2cf471971798123f5948e625dc170c71 | access-date = 2007-10-21 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071010175714/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i2cf471971798123f5948e625dc170c71 |archive-date = 2007-10-10}}

Stickles has appeared in a number of low-budget and direct-to-video horror films, including such titles as Meat Weed Madness (2006) and its sequel Meat Weed America (2007), and has four films slated for release in 2008. He also appeared in the exercise video The Bedroom Workout for Men: Better Sex Through Exercise.{{cite web | title = The Bedroom Workout for Men credits | url = http://www.bedroomworkout.com/credits.html | access-date = 2008-03-25}}

Personal life

Stickles is openly gay. He has been married to magician Michael Carbonaro since 2014.

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Note
2000	Shaft	Mickey Hunt 2
2000	Strangers with Candy	Track Team Fan	TV series - Episode: "Blank Relay"
2004	Personal Sergeant	Street Punk
2005	Dead Serious	Hostage
2006	Shortbus	Caleb, The Stalker
2006	Cemetery Gates	Hunter Belmont
2007	2 Minutes Later	Victor
2007	The Girl Next Door	EMT
2007	Sexina: Popstar P.I.	Onski
2007	Meat Weed America	Bin Smokin'	direct-to-video
2007	The Lair	Damian Courtenay	TV series - 26 episodes
2008	Eat Your Heart Out	Vincent	Skinned Alive
2008	Evilution	Stanfa
2008	Watch Out	Brian
2009	The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited	V
2009	The Conquest of the Silken Beaver	Peter	segment "Painting by Numbers"
2009	George's Intervention	Ben
2010	BearCity	Executive
2010	The Brides of Sodom	Dominic
2010	The Black Box	Bob Wilkins, Newscaster
2011	Sunday on the Set with George	Unknown	short
2011	Gingerdead Man 3-D: Saturday Night Cleaver	Jeffrey Dahmer
2011	Evil Bong 3D: The Wrath of Bong	Alistair
2011	Psychosomatika	Sage
2011	For Christ's Sake	Pete Browning
2011	I Want to Get Married	Jim
2011	Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven	Godhardt Brandt
2013	The Trouble with Barry	Barry Montenegro	feature
2014	Best Day Ever	James
2017	Stage Fright	Kevin
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References

References

1. "2006 Winners and nominees". Gotham Independent Film Awards.
2. (2017-02-03). "'Carbonaro Effect' Star Discusses How Growing Up Gay Changed His World View".
3. "Michael Carbonaro Lies About Everything—Except Being Gay". [[Logo TV]].

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