Peter Mullan Biography

Fast Facts

• Is the third youngest of eight children
• Father worked at the University of Glasgow, and died on the day Peter started school there in 1977
• While in college, made extra money by entering disco-dancing competitions
• Was rejected by the National Film School
• While filming 2000's The Claim in the Canada Rockies, he had to be treated for hypothermia after spending six hours shooting in the snow
• His 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters, about Irish-Catholic women accused of sexual misconduct and forced to toil in church-run laundries where they suffer abusive treatment, touched off a dispute with the Vatican
• In 2009, with three other British actors, he vowed never to work for the BBC again after the broadcaster refused to run a charity appeal for humanitarian aid in Gaza
• Did a fashion spread in the July 2013 British edition of Esquire magazine