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What is Peter Coyote's Net Worth?

Peter Coyote is an American actor, director, writer, and narrator who has a net worth of $2 million. Peter Coyote is known for his roles in such films as "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Cross Creek," "Bitter Moon," "Sphere," and "A Walk to Remember." He is also a prolific narrator, having narrated numerous PBS documentary miniseries byKen Burns, as well as various films and audiobooks. As an author, Coyote has penned memoirs and poetry collections. He published his autobiography, "Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle," in 1998.

Early Life and Education

Peter Coyote was born as Robert Peter Cohon on October 10, 1941 in New York City to Jewish parents Ruth and Morris. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where he graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1960. Coyote went on to attend Grinnell College in Iowa, from which he graduated in 1964 with his BA in English literature. While a student at Grinnell, he ingested peyote and had a trip during which he saw paw prints. A few years later, after seeing the same paw prints in the poetry magazine Coyote's Journal, he decided to change his surname to Coyote.

West Coast Counterculture

Having moved to the West Coast in the mid-1960s, Coyote began a master's program in creative writing at San Francisco State University. He also did an apprenticeship at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop. Following that, Coyote joined the radical political street theater group the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He became increasingly involved in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury counterculture over the ensuing years, and helped found the radical community-action group the Diggers, which created street performances and fed people in need. The Diggers eventually became the Free Family, which established communes around the Pacific Northwest and Southwest. Coyote became a resident of the Black Bear Ranch commune in Siskiyou County, California. In the mid-1970s, he practiced meditation and became a practitioner of American Zen Buddhism at the San Francisco Zen Center.

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Film Acting

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