# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-postlethwaite
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:19:48.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-postlethwaite"
name: "Pete Postlethwaite"
slug: "pete-postlethwaite"
description: "Peter William Postlethwaite was an English character actor. After various stage and minor television appearances, Postlethwaite's first major success arose through the film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), directed by Terence Davies. He had a breakthrough in Hollywood when he portrayed David in Alien 3 (1992), and his international reputation was further solidified when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Giuseppe Conlon, father of Gerry Conlon, in In the Name of the Father (1993)."
tagline: "English character actor (1946–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pete_Postlethwaite.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-02-07"
deathDate: "2011-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.017587939698493
  historical:           24.37898666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump