Biography of Peter Mullan who starred in the TV series The Trial of Tony Blair and Shoebox Zoo and the films Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Cildren of Men, Connolly and Braveheart:

Biography Of Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Grampian, Scotland, UK in 1960 and lived for a short time at Leask Avenue. Peter then grew up in Cardonald in Glasgow.

He made his acting debut in 1988 at the theatre. Success in television and at the cinema promptly followed. Peter Mullan starred in films such Riff-Raff, Braveheart, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, My Name Is Joe, Cargo, On A Clear Day, Criminal, Waves, Blinded, Kiss Of Life, Young Adam, This Little Life, The Magdalene Sisters, Session 9, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Duck, Poor Angels, Nightlife, Good Day for the Bad Guys, Ruffian Hearts, Sealladh, Jute City, The Big Man, Opium Eaters, Connolly, The Last Legion, True North, Children of Men and Cargo.

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His TV roles include Shoebox Zoo (Michael Scot), Rab C Nesbitt and Taggart.

Peter Mullan has also directed the film The Magdalene Sisters and several episodes of the BBC TV series Cardiac Arrest.

The Fixer

On the 10 March 2008 Peter Mullan starred in The Fixer on ITV. His character was called Lenny Douglas, a hard headed Intelligence Officer. He was the handler for John Mercer played by Andrew Buchan. John Mercer was a former special forces soldier and criminal. The Fixer also stars Tamzin Outhwaite as Rose Chamberlain an ex police officer, Jody Latham as Calum McKenzie the house mate of John and Liz White as Jess Mercer, John's sister.

The Trial of Tony Blair

In January 2007 Peter Mullan starred as Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in the television political satire drama The Trial of Tony Blair. It was screened on the digital channel More4 on Monday 15 January 2007. Actor Robert Lindsay acted the part of the Prime Minister Tony Blair who faced extradition for was crimes against the people of Iraq and had to face a war crimes trial.

In 2007 starred in the film Connolly which was based on the biography of Scotsman James Connolly who became an Irish socialist leader during the Easter Rising of 1916.

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Taggart

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 Peter Mullan starred in Taggart as the brother of the Detective Chief Inspector DCI Matt Burke (Alex Norton). The character Peter Mullan played was the mechanic John Burke. Their father had been murdered with a heroin overdose and John Burke was a suspect. However his brother solved the case when he found that other local pensioners had been murdered. They formed a suicide pact to help each other end their lives if their pains got to much. The episode of Taggart that Peter Mullan was in was called Judgement Day

TrueNorth Film

In 2006 Peter Mullan returned to his Peterhead, Aberdeenshire roots when he filmed the TrueNorth film that was released in 2007. Peter Mullan plays a trawlerman called Riley who is caught up in people trafficking aboard a fishing trawler bound for Scotland from Belgium. Read more about the plot of the TrueNorth film and its awards on the About Aberdeen True North Film review.

Boy A

Peter Mullan starred in Boy A on Channel 4 on Monday 26 November 2007. Boy A was about a child killer called Eric Wilson (played by actor Andrew Garfield) who is released back into society after murdering a younger boy with another child when they were ten years old. He now has a new identity (Jack) at the age of 24 years. The Scottish actor Peter Mullan from Peterhead played his social worker Terry who supported Jack in his new life as he made new friends, found a lover and even saved the life of a child. But his deadly secret was not kept safe thanks to the tabloid press and Terry's son.

The screenplay for Boy A was written by Mark O'Rowe and based on the novel Boy A by the writer Jonathan Trigell. Other actors in Boy A included Shaun Evans as Chris, Anthony Lewis as Steve, Skye Bennett as Angela Milton, Jessica Mullins as Catherine Thompson and James Young as Zeb.