Chris Pedersen: Chris Pedersen. Actor: Platoon. Born in San Francisco and grew up in Southern California, Pedersen was never formally trained as an actor; is musician, race car driver, and become actor when was approached by director Penelope Spheeris at a park in Burbank where the band T.S.O.L. was playing; Pedersen appeared in Platoon, Night of the Comet and Point Break, but he began to distance himself from the film industry in...