John Edward Peck (born October 10, 1958) is an American television and film actor.
He also appeared as Lance Apollonaire, a student of Diane Chambers in a college course she was teaching in an episode of Cheers.
He attended Missouri Southern State University, where he earned a BA in marketing .
He played Cole Howard on The Young and the Restless from 1993 to 1999 and 2023 onwards, and he succeeded Michael Lowry in the role of Jake Martin on All My Children, from 2000 to 2003.
Peck also appeared in the films Dangerously Close, Lambada, To Grandmother's House We Go and Blind Heat, and was one of the hosts of the Miss USA 1998 pageant.