He gained worldwide attention for his role as ralphie who is an elf in the movie a christmas story. Peter billingsley also known as peter michaelsen and peter billingsley michaelsen is an american actor director and producer.

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The highly successful child actor turned producer received an emmy award nomination in 2005 as co executive producer on the critically acclaimed independent film channel.

Peter billingsley elf. He is a child actor who later turned into a producer and director. Will ferrell kristian ayre peter billingsley and david avalon in elf 2003. Peter billingsley the actor behind the iconic role of ralphie.

Peter billingsley i peter billingsley. That s to me the greatest joy 3. But what you probably didn t know is that actor peter billingsley the boy behind the glasses grew up to play another role in a different holiday hit.

Although elf was released 15 years ago the realization that billingsley was in both christmas movies is now sending social media into a tinsel drive tizzy. Today at approximately 11 19 am my life. Peter billingsley has been a member of the hollywood community since he was a small child achieving success and accolades both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.

He began his career as an infant in television commercials. Billingsley is also ming ming in 2003 s elf alongside will ferrell a role he went uncredited for. Peter billingsley has been a member of the hollywood since he started working as a child actor achieving success and accolades both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.

Peter billingsley who famously starred as a child in another christmas classic movie a christmas story appears briefly in the beginning of the movie as an elf named ming ming. The actor 47 year old peter billingsley is most beloved for playing bb gun wanting ralphie parker in the 1983 holiday classic a christmas story. Peter billingsley the former child actor behind ralphie parker in a christmas story makes an uncredited appearance in elf as ming ming an elf that helps santa at the north pole.

His acting roles include ralphie parker in the 1983 movie a christmas story jack simmons in the dirt bike kid billy in death valley and as messy marvin in hershey s chocolate syrup commercials during the 1980s. Minds have been blown across the internet over the last week following a discovery that has been hiding in plain sight for 15 years. We were half joking saying maybe someday this will be like a christmas story where every year you ll watch it because there are a few movies that get to be part of that cycle favreau said.

Considering we watch his face for about 24 hours straight every december 25 we re kind of shocked that we didn t recognize him as that grumpy looking elf in the new classic elf. In our defense the role is uncredited.