Russell Dominic Peters, of Anglo-Indian descent, was born on September 29, 1970 in Toronto, Ontario to Eric and Maureen Peters and raised in Brampton. His father was born in Bombay, India and worked as a federal meat inspector and his mother was born in Calcutta, India. He has an older brother named Clayton who was also born in Calcutta.He went to Georges Vanier Catholic Elementary School from kindergarten to grade 8 and North Peel Secondary School for grades 9-12 in Brampton.
Peters started his career in 1989 from Toronto. he has delineated his talent in countries like United States, UK, Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark, South Africa, theCaribbean, Vietnam, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sweden, India, United Arab Emirates,Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, and Trinidad among other places.
Peters was the host of the 2008 Juno Awards televised ceremonies in Calgary on April 6, 2008 for which he won a Gemini Award for "Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series" and the awards broadcast received the second-highest ratings ever for the program. he was invited to host 2009 Juno Awards in a row. he has been nominated for four Gemini Awards; Best Male Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards and has featured at such shows as Montreal's Just for Laughs (Juste Pour Rire) Comedy Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. He hosted the Canada Day Comedy Festival 2006.
His comedy special Outsource; Red, White and Brown and comedy series Monsoon House have been hitting the air with great plaudit.
Peters has also appeared in a few films, most recently "Senior Skip Day" also starring Larry Miller, Tara Reid & Gary Lundy. Besides this, Peters has also had short appearances in the 1994 film Boozecan as Snake's Friend, the 1999 film Tiger Claws III as Detective Elliott, the 1999 film "Analyze This," the 2004 film My Baby's Daddy as the obstetrician, the 2006 film Quarter Life Crisis as Dilip Kumar, the 2007 film The Take as Dr. Sharma, and the 2008 film Senior Skip Day as Uncle Todd. Peters is also listed for his appearances in two upcoming films. He is scheduled to star as "Pervius" in National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus.
Peters' popularity extends to several countries. In Canada, Peters became the first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre, with more than 15,000 tickets in two days for the single show. He ended up selling over 30,000 tickets nationally over the two-day sales period. A total of over 60,000 tickets were sold across six cities.
When fans placed segments of the special on the internet it created a global demand for Russell comedy and his popularity exploded. His Youtube videos have been viewed by over 20 million individual viewers. His website, www.russellpeters.com, gets over 10,000 hits a day and alerts his many fans to his upcoming shows via targeted email blasts.
apart from his rib tickling comic sense and cherubic appearance, Russell's sattires are more divulging and related to diurnal lives which makes him more connected to his audience. his greater works are yet to come and the artist has a long way to go...
