Pete Postlethwaite
Peter William " Pete " Postlethwaite, OBE [' pɒsəlθweɪt ] ( born February 16, 1946 in Warrington, Cheshire, † January 2, 2011 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire ) was a British actor.
Life
Postlethwaite was first a teacher at a convent school. Later he gained decades of stage experience: He performed at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Ensemble, Liverpool Everyman and later with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since the 1980s, he took over smaller film and television roles, the first major success came in 1988 with Distant voices - a still life. Widely known he was in 1993 through the film In the Name of the Father.
This was followed by major and minor supporting roles in Hollywood productions such as Dragonheart, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Usual Suspects, Æon Flux and the Shakespeare adaptation Romeo Juliet, in which he took on the role of Father Lorenzo ( Friar Laurence ), as well as in the 2010 released movie Inception. Steven Spielberg, who worked with Postlethwaite in two of his films, described him as "the best actor in the world ".
Postlethwaite lived in Shropshire, near the village Wistanstow. He was married to Jacqueline Morrish and had two children. He died on 2 January 2011, the consequences of a cancer suffering.