Peter Mullan

With his ginger hair, twinkling squint, and sparkplug physique, Peter Mullan was the perfect embodiment of the working class Scot. Also true to stereotype were Mullan's childhood abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father, his youth spent as a street thug, factory worker, and pub bouncer, and most importantly, his deeply poetic Scottish soul. Though Mullan made an early impression as a hard man in films such as "Trainspotting" (1996) and "My …