Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (IPA: ['pɒsəlθweɪt]; born 7 February 1945) is an Academy Award-nominated British actor.
Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England, to Mary Geraldine and William Postlethwaite as their third and youngest child. He trained as a teacher at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill and taught drama before training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Postlethwaite started his career at the Liverpool ...
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Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (IPA: ['pɒsəlθweɪt]; born 7 February 1945) is an Academy Award-nominated British actor.
Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England, to Mary Geraldine and William Postlethwaite as their third and youngest child. He trained as a teacher at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill and taught drama before training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Postlethwaite started his career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. Postlethwaite and Walters were lovers for the latter half of the seventies and lived a ramshackle bedsit life in Soho.
Postlethwaite is a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and other acting troupes.
After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role...
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