Pete Postlethwaite

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William Postlethwaite (OBE), a British character actor who appeared in Dragonheart (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Sharpe (1997), The Constant Gardener (2005), Clash of the Titans (2010), and Inception (2010). He made his first big success in The Professionals, a British autobiographical film (1988).

In 1992, he had a transatlantic breakthrough as he portrayed David in Alien 3 (1992), and his international fame was further strengthened when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In the Name of the Father (1993).

Following this role, he portrayed Mr Kobayashi, the enigmatic lawyer, in The Usual Suspects (1995) and went on to appear in a number of films. Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill on Sharpe appeared in television.

He specialized as a tutor and lectured drama before beginning to train as an actor.

After working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), director Steven Spielberg called him "the best actor in the world."

In the 2004 New Year Honours list, he was designated an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

He was nominated for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role by Ben Affleck's The Town (2010), less than a month after his death.

Early life

Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, Lancashire, William Postlethwaite's fourth and youngest child (1913–1988), a woodworker, and school caretaker, and Mary Geraldine (née Lawless; 1913-2000), working-class Roman Catholics. Mr. Patricia Rowland and Mrs. Anne Williams, as well as Michael (1944–2006). Despite portraying Irish characters on several occasions, Postlethwaite was not of Irish descent.

Postlethwaite attended St Benedict's RC Junior School and a seminary. He then joined West Park Grammar School in St Helens, where he loved sport, particularly rugby league. He spent an additional year re-sitting some O-levels and then began with four A-levels in English, history, geography, and French.

Personal life

Postlethwaite lived in West Itchenor, West Sussex, before transferring to Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. In 1987, Jacqueline "Jacqui" Morrish, a former BBC producer, was born; the couple married at St Nicholas' Church in Itchenor. William John "Billy" (born 1989) and Lily Kathleen (born 1996). Billy is an actor who studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and he has appeared in the television series Holby City, Game of Thrones, and Chernobyl.

Postlethwaite was a lifelong supporter of Liverpool FC.

In 1990, Postlethwaite was diagnosed with testicular cancer and had his right testicle removed. From the age of ten to his death, he was a smoker. In a Sunday interview with Scotland, the actor discussed his vaping habits, saying, "We've got to pray that the next generation will do things differently." I'm sure that in 20 years' time the children will say, 'Can you believe that people actually used to smoke,' put these fun little things in their mouths, lit them, and sucked all of the garbage into their lungs.'

During the 1997 general election, Postlethwaite appeared as a taxi driver in one of Labour Party's political broadcasts. In 2003, he marched in London against the Iraq war. He was an environmental campaigner who called for measures to prevent climate change. He told then-Secretary of State for Environment and Climate Change Ed Miliband that if the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station was allowed permission by the government, he would return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour.

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Career

Early in his career, Postlethwaite was recommended by his first agent and peers who joked that his name "would never be used in lights outside of theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity." The advice was turned down by Postlethwaite.

He was also the first male drama coach at Loreto College in Hulme, Manchester.

He began at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and joined in 1970.

He initially wanted to be a Catholic priest but decided on a theatre career and began his work at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, where his coworkers included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher, Matthew Kelly, and Julie Walters. During the latter half of the 1970s, Postlethwaite and Walters had a close friendship.

He toured Australia and New Zealand in a 90-minute one-man performance called Scaramouche Jones, in which he played a clown and wondered why he is who he is before he dies at midnight, winning the TMA Award for Best Actor and Best Solo Performance. Rupert Goold, who would also direct his Lear in 2008, in which Postlethwaite played every character, was directed. The play toured Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, earning high praise.

Terry Pratchett wrote that Sam Vimes was always imagined as 'a younger, slightly bulkier version of Pete Postlethwaite' in The Art of Discworld (2004).

After working with Postlethwaite on The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg called him "the best actor in the world," he said: "I'm sure what Spielberg really said is."

In 2008 at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and the Young Vic, London, Postlethwaite appeared in a Liverpool stage production of King Lear. He appeared in the climate change-themed film The Age of Stupid, which premiered in March 2009. "The stakes [of climate change] are extremely high," he wrote in The Sun newspaper, having recently installed a wind turbine in his garden. They're climbing the roof. How can we safely know that we're going to die if we let it happen?"

Postlethwaite, terminally ill, made a triumphant return to Hollywood in three 2010 films, first as Spyros in Clash of Titans. Maurice Fischer, an industrialist who is slowly dying, appeared in the blockbuster at Inception. Lastly, critics applauded Ferm's performance as a florist/crime manager, making several publications' lists of Oscar winners for Best Support Actor. Postlethwaite's last film appearance on screen was in Nick Hamm's film Killing Bono, based on Neil McCormick's memoir. To treat his illness, the role was created specifically for Postlethwaite. On April 1, 2011, the film was released. His last role was supposed to be in the BBC series Exile, written by Danny Brocklehurst and Paul Abbott, but he had to cancel due to poor health. Jim Broadbent was transferred to the role.

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