Paige Peterson (actress)
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Paige Ellen Peterson is an American
actress and veteran cheerleader, best known for being typecast
as pompon captain Amy Wright in the American television sitcom
Hang Time
between 1996 and 1997. She has modeled for Maxim
magazine and played in the Lingerie Bowl
.
Peterson competed in numerous beauty pageants during her childhood. She moved to Topeka for about a year around age 15, and then to Los Angeles in August 2005.
On Thanksgiving Day, 2008, she was arrested in Hollywood, California, for misdemeanor
domestic
battery
.
Peterson has two brothers, Ryan and Jared, with whom she is very close although neither of the brothers are in show business. Their parents are Tracy and Bob Peterson, who divorced when Paige was a child; her stepfather is David Powell.
United States
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actress and veteran cheerleader, best known for being typecast
Typecasting (acting)
In TV, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific character; one or more particular roles; or, characters having the same traits or coming from the same social or ethnic groups...
as pompon captain Amy Wright in the American television sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
Hang Time
Hang Time (TV series)
Hang Time is an American teen sitcom that aired from 1995–2000. The teen-oriented program aired on Saturday mornings on NBC as part of the network's TNBC morning block. It was created by Troy Searer, Robert Tarlow, and Mark Fink. Producer Peter Engel took over Fink's duties at the start of Season 2...
between 1996 and 1997. She has modeled for Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
magazine and played in the Lingerie Bowl
Lingerie Bowl
The Lingerie Bowl is an annual Super Bowl halftime alternative shown on pay-per-view TV. It features a game of full-contact American football with female athletes playing seven-on-seven tackle football. Lingerie Bowl I aired during Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 with Team Euphoria losing to the Team...
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Peterson competed in numerous beauty pageants during her childhood. She moved to Topeka for about a year around age 15, and then to Los Angeles in August 2005.
On Thanksgiving Day, 2008, she was arrested in Hollywood, California, for misdemeanor
Misdemeanor
A misdemeanor is a "lesser" criminal act in many common law legal systems. Misdemeanors are generally punished much less severely than felonies, but theoretically more so than administrative infractions and regulatory offences...
domestic
Domestic violence
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...
battery
Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault which is the fear of such contact.In the United States, criminal battery, or simply battery, is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact...
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Peterson has two brothers, Ryan and Jared, with whom she is very close although neither of the brothers are in show business. Their parents are Tracy and Bob Peterson, who divorced when Paige was a child; her stepfather is David Powell.