Peter Paige

• Birthplace: West Hartford, Connecticut
• Birthday: June 20, 1968

A versatile and gifted performer with a flair for comedy, actor Peter Paige was an accomplished theatre trouper who cut his teeth performing everything from Greek classics to Shakespeare to Eugene O’Neill on stage. Mainly known for his television work, however, Paige was most famous for having played the fabulously flamboyant Emmett Honeycutt for five seasons on the adult dramedy, “Queer as Folk” (Showtime. 2000-05).

A native of West Hartford, CT, Paige was born in the summer of 1969, just one month before Neil Armstrong’s historic m…more