# Peter Mensah

Peter Mensah (born 27 August 1959) is a Ghanaian-British actor, based in Canada. He is best known for his role as Oenomaus on the Starz television series Spartacus (2010–2013). He has also appeared in such films as Tears of the Sun, Hidalgo, The Incredible Hulk, 300, and Avatar.

## Early life

Mensah was born in Chiraa, Ghana, and comes from an academic family. He was born to parents from the Brong Ahafo Region, and moved to Hertfordshire, England, with his father, Peter Osei Mensah, an architect engineer, his mother, a writer, and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah began practicing martial arts at the age of six.
Though he had done drama in school, Mensah originally studied engineering, and arrived in Canada as an engineer for British Gas, developing gas fields at Morecambe Bay.

## Career

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 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
He voiced and provided his likeness for Sgt. Zach Hammond in EA's video game Dead Space.
Mensah played the character Oenomaus in Spartacus and was on the Spartacus Panel at Comic Con 2009 and 2011. He had a recurring role in the fifth season of True Blood.
He is the voice of Predaking, the dragon-like leader of the Predacons in Transformers: Prime.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Striking Poses | Hunky Receptionist | |
| 2000 | Bruiser | Skinhead | |
| 2000 | Bless the Child | Good Samaritan Janitor | |
| 2000 | The Perfect Son | Tall Gay Basher | |
| 2001 | Harvard Man | Cyrill The Butler | |
| 2001 | Jason X | Sgt. Brodski | |
| 2002 | Triggerman | Boxer | |
| 2002 | Cypher | Vault Security Guard | |
| 2003 | Tears of the Sun | Terwase | |
| 2004 | Hidalgo | Jaffa | |
| 2006 | The Seed | | Short film |
| 2006 | 300 | Persian Messenger | |
| 2008 | The Incredible Hulk | General Joe Greller | |
| 2009 | Avatar | Akwey | |
| 2014 | 300: Rise of an Empire | Persian Messenger | |
| 2016 | The Second Sound Barrier | Thelonious Courage as The Powerhouse | Short film |
| 2016 | Kevin Hart: What Now? | African Dictator | |
| 2018 | The Scorpion King: Book of Souls | Nebserek | Direct-to-video |
| 2019 | Rise | Governor Gaddo | |
| 2021 | Snake Eyes | Blind Master | |
| 2022 | The Devil Conspiracy | Archangel Michael | |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Jubartha | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Mort Erwin | TV movie, pilot for the series Nero Wolfe |
| 2000 | Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble | Quaka | TV movie |
| 2000 | Relic Hunter | Witch Doctor | Episode: "Cross OF Voodoo" |
| 2000 | Deep in The City | Lang | Episode: "Gorky Parkette" |
| 2001 | Blue Murder | Marlon Anderson | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Receptionist, Arthur | Episodes: "The Doorbell Rang", "Over My Dead Body" Pt.1/Pt.2 |
| 2001–02 | Witchblade | Hecter "Moby" Mobius | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | Tracker | Marak | Episode: "Native Son" |
| 2002 | Conviction | T-Bone | TV movie |
| 2005 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Daniel Greaves | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | General Perry | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Spartacus: Blood and Sand | Oenomaus / Doctore | Main cast |
| 2011 | Spartacus: Gods of the Arena | Oenomaus / Doctore | Main cast |
| 2012 | True Blood | Kibwe | |
| 2012 | Spartacus: Vengeance | Oenomaus / Doctore | Main cast |
| 2013 | Transformers: Prime | Predaking (voice) | Recurring role (season 3) |
| 2013 | Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising | Predaking (voice) | TV movie |
| 2013 | Burn Notice | Marco Cabral | Episode: "Nature of the Beast" |
| 2015–16 | Sleepy Hollow | Hidden One | |
| 2017–2018 | Midnight, Texas | Lemuel Bridger | |
| 2018 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Qovas | Recurring role (season 5) |
| 2019 | Departure | Levi Hall | Main cast (season 1) |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
| 2008 | Dead Space | Zach Hammond | |