Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite was born in Cheshire, England on February 7, 1946. The boy from childhood planned to become a priest, but eventually worked as a teacher at the school for several years. Leaving teaching, Pete entered drama school and got a job in the theater. In 1977, the actor was first invited to star in the film Duelists directed by Ridley Scott, for whom this work was also his debut. The plot of the film is based on the story “Duel” by Joseph Conrad, Pete played the man who shaved General more

Pete Postlethwaite was born in Cheshire, England on February 7, 1946. The boy from childhood planned to become a priest, but eventually worked as a teacher at the school for several years.
Leaving teaching, Pete entered drama school and got a job in the theater. In 1977, the actor was first invited to star in the film Duelists directed by Ridley Scott, for whom this work was also his debut. The plot of the film is based on the story “Duel” by Joseph Conrad, Pete played the man who shaved General Treyar.
Then the actor appeared in the films “Private celebration”, “Kill the priest” and “Cyrano de Bergerac”. The roles were minor, and the actor remained unnoticed until he starred in the 1988 film Far Voices, Frozen Lives.
In 1990, Pete Postlethwaite played the role of George Mary in the American-British film Treasure Island, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Lewis Stevenson. In the same year, he successfully got used to the role of the king in the film Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Then he appeared in the tapes “Few Seconds”, “At the Water”, Alien 3" , "Suspicious persons", etc.

For his role in the movie In the Name of the Father in 1993, Pete received an Oscar nomination. In total, this picture received 7 nominations for the “Oscar” and Grand Prix at the Berlin Film Festival.
One of the most important works of Pete became films "Solomon Kane" The Heart of the Dragon and The Beginning. The last films on which the famous actor worked were "City of Thieves" and "Kill Bono" .

Pete Postlethwaite passed away in January 2011 from pancreatic cancer. After his death, he was nominated for the BAFTA award for best performance of a supporting male role in the film “City of Thieves” directed by Ben Affleck.