• Name: Pete Postlethwaite
• Date of Birth: February 16, 1946
• Place of Birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England,

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Biography: An odd-looking but quite fascinating bloke with prominent, bony cheeks and a rawboned figure, distinguished character actor Pete Postlethwaite was born in 1946 and grew up in Cheshire, England amid mi...( read more )ddle-class surroundings. He went to college and while completing his studies developed an interest in theatre, to the chagrin of his family. His father, a laborer, wanted him to find a more secure position in life. A drama teacher initially, he decided to follow his acting instincts full-time and gradually built up an impressive array of classical stage credits via repertory, including the Bristol Old Vic Drama School and stints with Liverpool Everyman, Machester Royal Exchange and Royal Shakespeare Company. By the 80s he was ready to branch out into film and TV, giving a startling performance as a wife abuser in the British film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988). His highly distinctive features were subsequently put to good use in a number of versatile roles, usually menacing but sometimes humble, and most frequently as working-class types. By 1993 he had crossed over into Hollywood parts and earned his first Oscar nomination for his superb role as Daniel Day-Lewis' father in In the Name of the Father (1993). Other quality roles came his way with The Usual Suspects (1995), Brassed Off (1996), and Amistad (1997). Television has been a creative and positive venue as well with such fine work in "Sharpe's Company" (1994), Lost for Words (1999) and The Sins (2000). Working equally both here and abroad these days, Postlethwaite avoids the public limelight for the most part and lives quietly in England.

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  Pete Postlethwaite played in Dragonheart as Brother Gibert. He made a great monk.

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• Closing the Ring (Unrated, 2007)
• The Omen (R, 2006)
• Valley of the Heart's Delight (Unrated, 2006)
• Ghost Son (Unrated, 2006)
• Red Mercury (Unrated, 2005)
• Dark Water (PG-13, 2005)
• Gone Dark (Unrated, 2004)
• Strange Bedfellows (R, 2004)
• Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (Unrated, 2003)
• Gangs of New York (R, 2002)

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