Pete Postlethwaite Movies and Career Information

Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (pronounced /ˈpɒsəlθweɪt/; born 7 February 1945) is an English actor. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, Cheshire, the fourth and youngest child of William and Mary Postlethwaite. He trained as a teacher at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill and taught drama at Loreto College, Manchester 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 had an intimate relationship during the latter half of the 1970s. Postlethwaite is a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and other acting companies. 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 in In the Name of the Father in 1993. His performance as the mysterious lawyer "Kobayashi" in The Usual Suspects is also well-known, and he later made appearances in several successful films, including Alien 3, Amistad,