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Pete Postlethwaite

Actor

Born - 16 February 1945, Warrington, Cheshire, UK
Died - 2 January 2011

Bony-featured, confrontational-looking, wirily-built British actor, often seen as scowling villains in films, but capable of a wide range of roles. Nominated for an Academy Award for In the Name of the Father (1993), he made his film debut in a 1975 medium-length feature, The Racer, but did not become a name the public recognised until the 1990s. Other films (at first billed as Peter Postlethwaite) included Occupy! (1976), The Duellists (1977), A Private Function (1984), The Dressmaker (1988), Hamlet (1990), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Usual Suspects (1995), William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996), Brassed Off (1996), Jurassic Park (1997), Animal Farm (1999), The Shipping News (2001), View from the Top (2003), The Constant Gardener (2005), Closing the Ring (2007), The Town (2010) and Killing Bono (2011), his last. He died after a lengthy battle with cancer.