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Do you know who Peter Mullan is? A lot of people don t, but since 1990, he has moved quietly but firmly into the first rank of British film actors. A Scot, he had small roles in pictures like Riff-Raff, Shallow Grave, Braveheart and Trainspotting and then in 1998, he starred in Ken Loach s My Name Is Joe, playing a recovering alcoholic just at that stage when he begins to believe that he might be able to trust himself. The performance came out of nowhere to win the best actor award at Cannes.
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Since then, one powerful performance after another. In Mike Figgis Miss Julie (1999), he was the servant who has an affair with a countess in a film based on the Strindberg play. In Michael Winterbottom s The Claim (2000), a Thomas Hardy story moved to the Sierra Nevadas, he runs a frontier town with an iron hand. He directed The Magdalene Sisters (2002), an angry exposé of the practice in Ireland of condemning sexually curious girls to a lif