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Dateline: 3rd January, 2011
Pete Postlethwaite (1946 - 2011) Actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64 in hospital in Shropshire where he was being treated for cancer. Known primarily as a film actor - he received an Oscar nomination for his performance in In the Name of the Father in 1993 in which he starred with Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson - he began his career at the Liverpool Everyman alongside Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher, Alan Bleasdale and Julie Walters. He returned to the Everyman in 2008, when Liverpool was European Capital of Culture, to play Lear, a production which then moved to the Old Vic. That production was directed by Rupert Goold who also directed his highly acclaimed one-man show Scaramouche Jones (by Justin Butcher) in 2003, which toured to Australia, Canada and New Zealand as well as the UK. In 2007 he played Prospero in The Tempest at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, a performance which the BTG's David Chadderton described as "a commanding presence, but he achieves this through calm thoughfulness and touches of subtle humour, never resorting to rage and bluster." Among his best known films are The Usual Suspects, Alien 3, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Constant Gardener, Inception and as Friar Lawrence in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. He was awarded the OBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours List. He is survived by his wife and two children.
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