Peter Mensah

Peter Mensah

Born: August 27, 1959
in Chiraa, Ghana
Peter Osei Mensah (born on 27 August 1959, ht. 6'3"), is a Ghanaian-English actor, best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun, 300, Sleepy Hollow, and on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance.

Mensah comes from an academic family. He was born in Ghana, to parents of the Ashanti People but he moved to Hertfordshire, England with his father, an engineer, and his mother, a writer and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah moved to Canada 11 years ago. He emigrated from Britain to see the world and it was a toss-up whether his destination would be Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first.

Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven, and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery.

Movies for Peter Mensah...

Gladiator II
Title: Gladiator II
Released: November 20, 2024
Type: Movie
The film will follow the continuing story of Lucius, the son of Lucilla.
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The Devil Conspiracy
Title: The Devil Conspiracy
Character: Archangel Michael
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: Movie
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.
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Hypochondriac
Title: Hypochondriac
Character: Dr. Jansen
Released: March 14, 2022
Type: Movie
A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.
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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Title: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Character: Blind Master
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
After saving the life of their heir apparent, tenacious loner Snake Eyes is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage where he is taught the ways of the ninja warrior. But, when secrets from his past are revealed, Snake Eyes' honor and allegiance will be tested – even if that means losing the trust of those closest to him.
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Title: Departure
Character: Levi
Released: July 10, 2019
Type: TV
Follow the mystery of Flight 716 - a passenger plane that vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean. Following the mysterious crash, recently widowed, brilliant aviation investigator Kendra Malley is called in to investigate by her former boss and mentor Howard Lawson.
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The Scorpion King: Book of Souls
Title: The Scorpion King: Book of Souls
Character: Nebserek
Released: October 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end to an evil warlord.
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Title: Midnight, Texas
Character: Lemuel Bridger
Released: July 24, 2017
Type: TV
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. In a remote Texas town no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.
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Kevin Hart: What Now?
Title: Kevin Hart: What Now?
Character: African Dictator
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.
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The Second Sound Barrier
Title: The Second Sound Barrier
Character: Thelonious Courage as The Powerhouse
Released: March 10, 2016
Type: Movie
The tale of the three fastest drivers in the world and their quest to save Lady Billionaire. Struck with a mysterious illness, the only way to save her is to break the "second sound barrier"
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300: Rise of an Empire
Title: 300: Rise of an Empire
Character: Persian Emissary
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
Title: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
Character: Predaking (voice)
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Autobots, Decepticons, Predaking and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Qovas
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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Title: Sleepy Hollow
Character: The Hidden One
Released: September 16, 2013
Type: TV
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
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Title: Transformers: Prime
Character: Predaking (voice)
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: TV
Roll out with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and the rest of the heroic Autobots as they battle the evil Decepticons. Now that big bad Megatron has returned with a mysterious and dangerous element, Team Prime must prepare for an epic battle.
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Title: Spartacus
Character: Doctore
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: TV
Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.
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Title: 斯巴达克斯:血与沙
Character: 瓦罗
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: TV
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Avatar
Title: Avatar
Character: Horse Clan Leader
Released: December 15, 2009
Type: Movie
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
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Title: True Blood
Character: Kibwe
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: TV
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic, blood vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides, but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.
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The Incredible Hulk
Title: The Incredible Hulk
Character: General Joe Greller
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
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Title: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Character: General Perry
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: TV
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
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The Seed
Title: The Seed
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The Seed follows the events surrounding a homeless veteran named Ken Mercado, played by Will Yun Lee. Living along the banks of the Los Angeles River, he is attacked by masked men in black vehicles, invisible to the eye. To any passers-by, Mercado appears to have some sort of mental illness, but as he is chased throughout the city, it is revealed to the audience that he is not in fact paranoid, but rather the victim of a government conspiracy. Sung's adversaries are visible to him, yet only visible to the audience part of the time. At the end of the film, an alien ship is visible in the sky, watching the scene.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Marco Cabral
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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300
Title: 300
Character: Messenger
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
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Hidalgo
Title: Hidalgo
Character: Jaffa
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
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Tears of the Sun
Title: Tears of the Sun
Character: Terwase
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
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Cypher
Title: Cypher
Character: Vault Security
Released: October 1, 2002
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
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Triggermen
Title: Triggermen
Character: Boxer
Released: July 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up.
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Jason X
Title: Jason X
Character: Sgt. Brodski
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!
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Title: Tracker
Character: Marak
Released: October 15, 2001
Type: TV
Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis. The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw. The pilot episode and two other episodes were edited into the film Alien Tracker.
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Title: Star Trek: Enterprise
Character: Daniel Greaves
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: TV
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
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Title: Witchblade
Released: June 12, 2001
Type: TV
Sara "Pez" Pezzini searches for justice which brings her into contact with the Witchblade. An ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can battle Earth's darkest evil forces. Week in and week out, Pez employs her skills as a police detective to fight crime. Pez finds she must employ the Witchblade to combat a much greater and frighteningly organized conspiracy of evil that threatens the very soul of humanity.
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Title: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Character: Receptionist
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
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Bless the Child
Title: Bless the Child
Character: Good Samaritan Janitor
Released: August 11, 2000
Type: Movie
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Title: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Character: Quaka
Released: April 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
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Title: Relic Hunter
Character: Witch Doctor
Released: September 25, 1999
Type: TV
Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
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Striking Poses
Title: Striking Poses
Character: Hunky Receptionist
Released: April 27, 1999
Type: Movie
When a beautiful paparazzo for a tabloid magazine finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker, she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive, and independently wealthy.
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Title: Highlander: The Raven
Character: Raphael
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: TV
Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal. The series followed the character of Amanda, an Immortal who had a recurring role in Highlander: The Series. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Paris, France and was produced by Gaumont Télévision and Fireworks Media in association with Davis-Panzer Productions.
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The Long Island Incident
Title: The Long Island Incident
Character: Hugh
Released: May 3, 1998
Type: Movie
On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.
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Title: Twitch City
Character: Prison Guard
Released: January 19, 1998
Type: TV
Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.
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Title: Earth: Final Conflict
Character: Paratrooper
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Title: Earth: Final Conflict
Character: Alan
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Title: Once a Thief
Released: September 29, 1996
Type: TV
Once a Thief is a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Vincent
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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Trust
Title: Trust
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A Hollywood starlet seeks refuge in a secluded Airbnb following a high-profile scandal, only to find herself at the mercy of hardened criminals on the hunt for a score.