Pete Ploszek

Pete Ploszek is an American actor who plays Alpha werewolf Garrett Douglas in Season 6 of MTV's Teen Wolf.

Early Life
Ploszek was born in Hinsdale, Illinois but grew up across New Jersey, Maine, and Ohio before his family returning to Illinois in 1998.

As a football player at St. Charles East High School, he earned many accolades. In 2009, he graduated from Princeton University, where he was a four-year member of the Princeton Tigers football team. He graduated with a MFA in Acting from the USC School of Dramatic Arts in 2012.

Career
Only recently starting his acting career, Ploszek got his first role in 2012 with the short film Outrage: WME.

His most notable role to date is portraying Leonardo in the 2014 live action reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He portrayed the character through motion-capture but was dubbed by Johnny Knoxville without knowing it. In the 2016 sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, he got to voice the character.

He made a few appearances in some television shows like Parks and Recreation, Shameless, TakePart Live, and Workaholics.

In 2016, he published a book called "Get Fast and Crush the Combine" which has been called a guide for high school athletes.