Born in Peterhead, Scotland, in 1959 and raised in Glasgow, Peter Mullan is both an actor and a director. He won the best actor prize at Cannes for My Name Is Joe (1998) by Ken Loach. His directing debut Orphans (1998) followed a Glasgow family on the night before their mother's funeral. The Magdalene Sisters (2002), about girls in Irish Catholic laundries, won the Golden Lion at Venice. Neds (2010) followed, a study of youth violence in 1970s Glasgow.
Filmography
- Orphans (1998)
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
- Neds (2010)
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