Peter Macon

Peter Jerrod Macon is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Lt. Commander Bortus in the Fox/Hulu television series The Orville (2017–2022), and Raka in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024).

Peter Macon
Macon in 2024
Born	Peter Jerrod Macon Cincinnati, Ohio
Education	North Community High School Yale School of Drama San Francisco Art Institute
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Jacquelyn Woods ​ (m. 2018)​ [1][2]
Awards	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, 2002

Early life

Macon was raised in Minneapolis and attended North Community High School, where he acted in school plays.^[3] His mother was a teacher, and his father was a truck driver.

Macon later attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the Yale School of Drama, where he earned a master's degree in acting.

Macon married Lucia Brawley, an actress who also attended Yale, in 2005. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins officiated. They divorced several years later.^[4] In 2018, Macon married Jacquelyn Woods.^[1][2]

Career

Stage theater

Macon acted for nearly 30 years at Twin Cities theaters including Penumbra, Illusion, and Children's Theatre Company, and he starred in the title role of Othello at the Guthrie Theater, as well as productions of the play in Dublin, Colorado, and Oregon.^[3]

Television

Macon in 2022

Macon has appeared in episodes of Nash Bridges, Law & Order, Without a Trace, Supernatural, The Shield, Dexter, Bosch, SEAL Team, and Shameless.

In 2017, Macon began playing Bortus in The Orville, a comedy-drama science fiction television series created by Seth MacFarlane that premiered on FOX on September 10 of that year.^[5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	World and Time Enough	Mike
2008	Turok: Son of Stone	Tower Sentry (voice)[6]	Direct-to-video
2023	Shelter in Solitude	Jackson Marcus
2024	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes	Raka

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997, 1999	Nash Bridges	Staple, Weldon Howard	2 episodes
2004	Law & Order	Cop	Episode: "Gov Love"
2004	Without a Trace	Cop #2	Episode: "Doppelgänger: Part 2"
2007	Supernatural	Isaac	Episode: "The Magnificent Seven"
2007	Dexter	Leonis	Episode: "Resistance Is Futile"
2014	How to Get Away with Murder	David Allen	Episode: "Freakin' Whack-a-Mole"
2015–16	Bosch	Reverend Isiah Ott	3 episodes
2016	Shameless	Luther Winslow	Recurring role
2016	NCIS	ICE Agent Todd Baldwin	Episode "Home of the Brave"
2017–present	The Orville	Lt. Commander Bortus	Main role
2019	SEAL Team	Master Chief Wilke	Episode: "Time to Shine"
2021–present	Family Guy	Preston Lloyd (voice)	Recurring role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Twisted Metal 2	Axel, Minion	[6]
1997	Cool Boarders 2	Boss	[6]
2017	Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus	Bombate	[6]
2019	Anthem	Commander Vule	[6]

Awards

In 2002, Macon won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for narrating the episode "John Henry, the Steel Driving Man" of the television series Animated Tales of the World.^[7][8]