Peter Gardner Ostrum is an American veterinarian and former child actor. His only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He has two children, Helenka and Leif, with the latter following his father onto stage as the leading actor in several South Lewis Central School musicals.
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Peter Gardner Ostrum is an American veterinarian and former child actor. His only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was tutored on-set for three hours a day, though sometimes only for 30–60 minutes at a time by Gene Wilder. After eschewing a career in film and theatre, he became reluctant to speak about his one starring role. In 1990, he began an annual tradition of speaking to schoolchildren about the film, and he became a subject of interest again when the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate factory was released to theaters. In January 2018, he said he sometimes misses acting, but feels he dodged to make the transition from child-to-adult-actor. He has two children, Helenka and Leif, with the latter following his father onto stage as the leading actor in several South Lewis Central School musicals.
He is married to Loretta Lepkowski, and the couple have two children: son Leif and daughter Helenka. The Ostrums lived in Lowville, New York as recently as 2005, and as of 2005 the family still lived in the same house they did in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple have a son, Dean, who was born in Dallas on November 1, 1957, and a daughter, Sarepta Mabel née Pierpont, born on November 2, 1957. OStrum was living in Cleveland at age twelve, a city of which he was described as a native by MSNBC. He received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University College of Veterinary medicine in 1984, and now practices and lives in New York with his wife Loretta, and two children.
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