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Director, Screenwriter, Actor Biography:Best known for his award-winning portrayal of a recovering alcoholic in "Ken Loach"'s "My Name Is Joe" (1998), Scottish actor "Peter Mullan" has been appearing in films since 1990. He first worked with director Loach in 1991's "Riff Raff", and he has appeared in a number of popular Scottish films, including "Danny Boyle"'s "Shallow Grave" (1994) and "Trainspotting" (1996), and "Mel Gibson"'s "Braveheart" (1995). In 1998, the same year that he won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor prize for "My Name Is Joe", Mullan made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with "Orphans". The story of four siblings gathered in Glasgow for their mother's funeral, it earned fairly positive reviews and comparisons to "Gillies MacKinnon"'s "Small Faces" (1995). The following year, Mullan starred opposite "Saffron Burrows" in "Miss Julie", "Mike Figgis"' adaptation of August Strindberg's tale about the... Full Biography
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