Pete was born in Conway Ontario, pop. 55, on his family's farm. He studied theatre and physical education at Queen's University in nearby Kingston, and won the Rookie of the Year award for athletics in his first year. After Queen's, he studied at the renowned George Brown Theatre School in Toronto; along with his many and varied film and TV roles, Pete has performed in lead and supporting roles in plays and musicals across Canada, at theatres such as The Tarragon, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Arts Club and Gateway Theatre. He moved to Vancouver, BC in 1990, after a solo cycling trip from England to Egypt. He competed in the Vancouver International Triathlon and the Oceanman Race, and is an avid skier and ocean swimmer. Pete also performs as a musician and circus artist (Pan Am Games 2015, 2010 Olympics, Cirque du Soleil promo) across Canada. He has a solo interactive musical stage show for youth, Let's Make A Song! that is a hit at festivals near and far, and also performs music and sports on stilts, both solo, and with his wife and kids (as The Superfun Stiltwalking Family). Pete has recorded a number of CDs (as Peter Graham-Gaudreau), including 2017's Feel Everything, and his first solo effort, Going Somewhere Slow, which provided the soundtrack for his award-winning play, Going Somewhere Slow (2002), and the short film based on that play.
Pete's original song Where You Will Find Me is the hero song in 2020's Love in the Forecast, in which he also plays Cindy Busby's dad; he plays his song Out in the Kitchen in 2019's Over The Moon in Love, in which he also plays the father of BH 90210's Jessica Lowndes. Pete sings harmonies on Jessica's new song for 2021's upcoming High-Flying Romance; he also plays Jessica's dad in this film. And he has 3 original songs featured in 2021's Chasing Waterfalls; his original I Don't Wanna Do What I Don't Wanna Do was featured in the 2017 indie feature film Idle Thoughts - Pete also has a supporting role in the film. He often performs at benefits and fundraisers around Vancouver and Toronto, producing an annual benefit concert for WISH Drop-In Centre since 1991. Pete is actively involved with a number of charities and has received several community awards.