Pete Postlethwaite

Biography

Born 02/07/1945

Possessing broken-nose looks as distinctive as his name, stage-trained actor Pete Postlethwaite started out late in movies as a heavy, trading on the natural menace projected by his ruddy, angular face. He was over 40 when he made his first indelible cinematic impression as the brutal father in...
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Filmography

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Highlights

In 2006, Cast in John Moore's remake of the 1976 classic horror film "The Omen"
In 2005, Cast opposite Jennifer Connelly in the thriller "Dark Water" directed by Walter Salles
In 2005, Co-starred in "The Constant Gardener," a thriller based on the best-selling John le Carre novel and directed by Academy Award-nominated Fernando Meirelles

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Family & Companions

Jacqueline Morrish: mother of Will and Lily Postlethwaite; met while he was filming a BBC drama and she was assistant floor manager
Julie Walters: worked with her at the Liverpool Everyman repertory
grandfather: driven to suicide by migraines and unemployment; Postlethwaite's link to the character he played in Terrence Davies' "Distant Voices, Still Lives"

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