Pete Wentz
Actor
- Born
- June 5, 1979 (age 47) · Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is an American musician best known as the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy, since 2001. Before Fall Out Boy, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was the lead singer and songwriter for Arma Angelus, a metalcore band. During Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2012, Wentz formed the experimental, electropop and dubstep group Black Cards. He owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.
Fall Out Boy returned from hiatus in February 2013, and have since released three number-one albums; Save Rock and Roll, American Beauty/American Psycho, and Mania.
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Wentz has also ventured into other non-musical projects, including writing, acting, and fashion; in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries. He also hosts the TV show Best Ink and runs a film production company called Bartskull Films, as well as a bar called Angels & Kings. His philanthropic activities include collaborations with Invisible Children, Inc. and UNICEF's Tap Project, a fundraising project that helps bring clean drinking water to people worldwide, People magazine states that "no bassist has upstaged a frontman as well as Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy." He is also a minority owner of the Phoenix Rising FC, a USL Championship team.
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Known for
Acting21
- 2024Fall Out Boy - So Much for (2our) Dust: Live from Madison Square Garden as Self
- 2022Halloween in Hollywood as Self
- 2018Escape Plan 2: Hades as Bug
- 2016Fall Out Boy - The Boys of Zummer Tour Live in Chicago as Self
- 20155 Seconds of Summer: How Did We End Up Here? as Self
- 2015Super Bowl Blitz: A Concert for the Troops as Self
- 2014iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2014 as Self
- 2014Lennon or McCartney as Self
- 2014The Young Blood Chronicles as Fall Out Boy / Defenders Of The Faith
- 2010
