PETER KELAMIS

Born in Sydney, Australia, Peter moved to Canada at an early age. Career driven since kindergarten he did his first stand-up act in front of his grade 4 class - he solidified his stage ambitions with a plum role in his high school's version of "Grease".
At the beginning of his career Kelamis had to face the harsh reality of showbiz when he was "dropped like a sack of hammers" (Kelamis) by his first agent. Bruised but not beaten Kelamis rebounded to experience the highlight of his career to-date: Improvising on stage one-on-one with Robin Williams. "Robin came up to me after the show and said, 'You're really, really funny.' I mean, I didn't go to him, he came to me!" (Kelamis). In fact, there was a casting agent in the house at that gig, and he's barely stopped working since.
He was a hit at the Montreal Comedy Festival and toured widely across Canada. Along with his own Comics special on CBC, and a raft of on-going voice-over jobs, he has appeared in more than thirty films, series, specials, and movies-of-the-week, most of them in the past few years. Highlights include featured appearances, often as straight men or deft technicians, on such creep-fests as The Outer Limits, Sliders, The Sentinel, and four different shots at The X-Files (plus a goofier part on The New Addams Family). Guest-starring on the new E! Entertainment television series Hollywood Off-Ramp, Kelamis dukes it out with the devil and on the TV series Strange Luck, the producer loved his character so much they wrote a whole episode for him.
Instantly recognizable for his dark hair, oversized eyes, and bow legs, Kelamis has had notable film roles in Happy Gilmore, Fear Of Flying, I'll Be Home For Christmas, Dog Show, and Richard Benjamin's hilarious new show The Sports Pages: The Heidi Bowl. He has a recurring role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers, in which he plays the head writer on a TV show.