PETER OSTRUM

Peter Ostrum is a former child actor and is now a veterinarian. Ostrum only had one film role, which was in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971 as Charlie Bucket. He was twelve years old and in sixth grade when Willy Wonka’s agents chose him. Ostrum was performing at the Cleveland Play House children’s theatre.

Ostrum got married to Loretta M. Lepkowski and had two children. Denise Nickerson, a fellow Wonka star, revealed in an interview in October 2000 that she and Paris Themmen planned for a reunion to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 2011 release of the film and that Ostrum agreed to join them. Peter Ostrum chose to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine and now works both as a veterinarian and a managing partner with Dairy Health & Management Services as of August 2019.