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An esteemed veteran of British theatre and TV, Postlethwaite entered feature films in 1984, and has since gained recognition as one of cinema's best character actors, noted for his reliable and often powerful performances. He began his film career in in the chaotic comedy, A Private Function (1984). His first big break came when he played the tyrannical patriarch in Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988). Notable subsequent film credits include Oscar-nominated supporting turns as Giuseppe Conlon in In The Name Of The Father (1993), the Player King in Hamlet (1990), and a nicely over-the-top villain in Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1996). Occasionally, Postlethwaite has starring roles - he was Danny in upbeat British outing Brassed Off (1996) and Kobayashi, Kaiser Soze's cohort in The Usual Suspects.
