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Quick facts about the actor who played US serial killer Jeffery Dahmer

By Winnie Mabel October 25th, 2022 2 min read

American actor Evan Thomas Peters is trending because of his onscreen role.

On September 21, 2022, Netflix released its latest true crime installation- Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story, and shocked the world with its production.

According to American media, Jeffery Lionel Dahmer was a serial killer and cannibal who murdered and dismembered boys and men between 1978 and 1991.

For more than a decade, he hunted his victims in Ohio and Wisconsin without being caught by law enforcement.

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The series explored his unhappy childhood, his murders, and his eventual arrest for horrifying criminal acts. He was captured on July 22, 1991. He died on November 28, 1994, at the Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin, United States.

Evan Thomas Peters who played Jeffery Dahmer

On the hit Netflix production, Dahmer’s character was played by actor Evan Thomas Peters, 35. Below are some quick facts about him:

  1. He was quoted in Seventeen saying that playing the Dahmer role was the hardest thing he’s ever done in his acting career and that diving into Dahmer’s crimes scared him.
  2. He began taking acting classes at age 15 while his family was still stationed in Michigan before it was decided that he and his mother would move to Los Angeles to pursue opportunities for his acting career.
  3. He is the last born among three siblings- he has an older brother, Andrew, and an older sister, Michelle.
  4. He has been known to date high-profile women, including actresses Alexia Queen and Emma Roberts (to whom he proposed marriage but eventually broke up); and singer Halsey.
  5. In July 2013, Emma Roberts was arrested for domestic violence against Peters, but he did not press charges against her, and she was released from jail hours later.
  6. He has been in several hit movies, including American Horror Story, X-Men Apocalypse, Wanda Vision, Kick-Ass, Mare of Easttown, and One Tree Hill.
  7. He is currently single, but he once hinted about the kind of women he likes in a 2015 interview:

“I guess girls who give me a chance, you know? If I say the wrong thing, do something stupid, fumble, or spill sh*t on my shirt, she’s OK with it. She’s cool with that and will give me another chance to say the right thing and get past my nerves and insecurity.

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There are a lot of girls out there who don’t really want to do that. But there are a lot of girls out there who do, and those are the ones — the only ones — I can really go for. I need a couple more chances than just the first one,” he told Elle Magazine.

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