Best known for his award-winning portrayal of a recovering alcoholic in Ken_Loach's My_Name_Is_Joe (1998), Scottish actor Peter Mullan has been appearing in films since 1990. He first worked with director Loach in 1991's Riff_Raff, and he has appeared in a number of popular Scottish films, including Danny_Boyle's Shallow_Grave (1994) and Trainspotting (1996), and Mel_Gibson's Braveheart (1995). In 1998, the same year that he won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor prize for My_Name_Is_Joe, Mullan made his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Orphans. The story of four siblings gathered in Glasgow for their mother's funeral, it earned fairly positive reviews and comparisons to Gillies MacKinnon's Small_Faces (1995). The following year, Mullan starred opposite Saffron_Burrows in Miss_Julie, Mike_Figgis' adaptation of August_Strindberg's tale about the disastrous affair between a wealthy young woman and her servant. He then went on to act in prominent roles for Ordinary_Decent_Criminal (1999), The_Claim (2000), and Session_9 (2001). In 2002, he returned to directing and screenwriting with the controversial film The_Magdalene_Sisters, which managed to both win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and be condemned by the Vatican. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

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