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4. Peter Mullan ( / ˈmʊlən /; born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach 's My Name Is Joe (1998), The Claim (2000), and all three series of the BBC comedy series Mum, in which he starred as Michael. He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for his direction of ...
Peter Mullan. Actor: The Magdalene Sisters. He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television. Fame came with the parts he played in such films as Riff-Raff (1991) by Ken Loach, Braveheart...
- November 2, 1959
Peter Mullan. Actor: The Magdalene Sisters. He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- November 2, 1959
- 2 min
Apr 24, 2024 · Peter Mullan was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 2 November 1959 – his zodiac sign is Scorpio and he holds British nationality. He is an actor, film writer and director, who is perhaps still known best for his portrayal of the lead character Joe Kavanagh in the 1998 romantic drama movie “My Name Is Joe”, written by Paul ...
English, Scots. Box office. $0.8 million. My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, Scotland who meets and falls in love with a health visitor, played by Louise Goodall. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam.
Born in Peterhead, north-east Scotland, on 2 November 1959, the sixth of eight children, Mullan grew up in the Cardonald area of Glasgow where his mother was a nurse and his father a lab technician - and a violent alcoholic, versions of whom were to recur throughout his son's work. Peter joined a street gang in his teens but still managed to ...
