Peter Krause isn’t sure exactly how this happened, but somewhere along the line he became Mr. Responsible. It seems like yesterday that he was breaking through as the prodigal son Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under, where for five seasons he was the family mortuary’s wild child, valiantly defying commitment and respectability in all its forms. The prevailing theme of that show, which premiered 25 years ago now, is that time goes fast.
It sure does. From there, Krause starred in Dirty Sexy Money as an idealistic lawyer who becomes a fixer for a corrupt wealthy family, then he was the warmhearted and dependable Adam Braverman on Parenthood, and after that he was the gallant firefighter Captain Bobby Nash on the rescue drama 9-1-1. Each step of the way, his characters seemed to become wiser, stronger, and more honorable. Now his journey to dignified moral authority has reached a new level with another family-focused drama.
On NBC’s Line of Fire, Krause costars with Hope Davis as the parents of grown children who all work in various branches of America’s protective services. He’s in the Secret Service, she’s a U.S. Marshal, their son is following his dad’s footsteps in the service, their daughter is an obsessive FBI agent, and their youngest is just starting his career in the Justice Department. When Krause looks back and connects the dots, he gets it. But it still feels strange to be the grown-up.
“There was some article a few years ago that referred to me as ‘TV veteran Peter Krause.’ I thought, Veteran…? I just got here,” he says. “It reminds me of that Kurt Vonnegut line, ‘Don’t look at me, I just got here too.’ It’s true. You feel that way.”
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