Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh in My Name Is Joe

Biography

Born 00/00/1959

Rejected by the National Film School, compact, ginger-haired Scotsman Peter Mullan abandoned his hope of being a film director and opted for the life of a drama teacher instead. After finally outgrowing (at the age of 27) a tendency for self-destructively working himself to exhaustion, which had...
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Awards

  • In 1999, received Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
  • In 1998, received Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award
  • In 1998, received Venice Film Festival International Critics Week Prize

Highlights

  • In 2007, Co-starred with Sir Ben Kingsley and Colin Firth in "The Last Legion"
  • In 2006, Played a middle age man who decides to swim the English Channel in "On a Clear Day"
  • In 2006, Cast in Alfonso Cuaron's futuristic tale, "The Children of Men," adapted from P.D. James' novel

Family & Companions

  • Charles Mullan: father (worked in research at Glasgow University; died of cancer in 1977 after a long bout with alcoholism)
  • Patricia Mullan: mother (died in 1993)
  • siblings: has seven; Mullan is the sixth of eight children

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