Birthplace: Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
biography
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 "Distant Voices, Still Lives" (1988), Terence Davies' powerful slice of post-war working-class life in Liverpool, England. Though small, gaunt and rather frail, the character terrorizes his family with his unpredictable rages and surprises them with occasional tenderness. This performance garnered
Acted in repertory at the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Bristol Old Vic and Liverpool's Everyman Theatre
1977
Early film appearance, a small role in Ridley Scott's "The Duellists"
1979
First met actor Daniel Day-Lewis while acting with the British Old Vic repertory; Day-Lewis, a student at the drama school was his understudy for role of Ulysses in "Troilus and Cressida"
Directed Day-Lewis in Mike Stout's play "Funny Peculiar"
Appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Hastings in the Antony Sher production of "Richard III" (1984-1985), Macduff and Banquo in "Macbeth" and Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
