Peter Weiss was born in Hannover in 1984. From 2005 to 2009, he studied acting at the "Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch" in Berlin. He joined the Neue Theater in Halle, where he performed in stagings of "Macbeth" and "Die Jungfrau von Orléans". In 2010, he made his screen debut in "Cindy liebt mich nicht", playing a young aspiring state prosecutor who has to cope with the fact that his new girlfriend is having another lover on the side.