Jeffrey Austin Peck was born on April 9, 1971 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. At the age of four he was moved to San Francisco after his parents divorced, and then moved to Los Angeles at the age of eight. He attended Santa Monica High School where he excelled as a football linebacker and was very popular, but he knew what he wanted to do with his life already and dropped out of High School in 1989, shortly before he was to graduate to pursue modeling full time. He had already been modeling since he was 16 years old, having been discovered by a commercial agent while he was hanging out with friends. His friends and the agent kept telling him he should do modeling full time, because with a face like his and a body frame like his (he is 6’2 with a naturally lean toned body), modeling was the perfect field for him.
At 18, Peck found himself modeling in Paris, Milan, Morocco, the Virgin Islands, and Rome. He then appeared in fashion layouts for many publications, including Esquire, GQ, Vogue Hommes, and British Vogue. He did editorial modeling, commercial modeling and runway modeling for a few years, while also going to auditions for tv roles as he wanted to become an actor (something his agent also recommended he do, as he had a face for acting). He struggled to land acting roles but kept trying. Finally, Peck made his network television debut on Days of our Lives in April 1995 as Austin Reed, a romantic and daring boxer-turned-executive. He succeeded the role from Patrick Muldoon. He played the character until 2002.
During his time on Days, he became one of the most popular actors on the show and the character became a fan favorite, with Austin getting the most fan mail a cast member has received EVER on that show.
Austin returned in 2005 until October 2006, when he left again after being offered a role on “As The World Turns”. He moved to NYC to play the character Brad Snyder. His first episode aired in January 2007. After two years (2009), he was let go from the show and his character was killed off. In 2011 he joined the cast of “One Life To Live”. He left the show after less than a year.
Austin returned to Days from January 11, 2017, to February 12, 2017, just for one month. In 2021 he reprised his famous role once again for the Days spinoff “Beyond Salem”.
He has done guest spots on tv shows and done a few low budget films in his career as well.
He has one son from his first marriage and two daughters and a son from his second (and current) wife.
Sometime in the 2010s Austin became a born again Christian and is very involved with his church. On his own time, Peck stays active by boxing and inline skating. He is also an accomplished cartoonist, he enjoys sketching caricatures of family members, friends, and co-stars.
I met him personally in NYC in 2012, and his beauty truly stunned me. He is even more handsome in person, in a striking way. And very tall. He appears taller than 6’2 in person. I am fairly tall and he looked much taller than me. I debated with myself if he fits the “vintage” category yet, but at 53 years old, I think we can label him as such.