Peter Sullivan (actor)

Peter Sullivan (born 26 July 1964 in Hoddesdon) is an English film and television actor

Sullivan was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. In 1982, he joined the National Youth Theatre, where he played Edmond in King Lear, and then joined the Old Vic Youth Theatre playing the title role in Macbeth. He studied at Central School of Speech and Drama from 1983 to 1986 and then in New York under Uta Hagen at HB Studio.

In 1988 he joined the Catalan performance group La Fura dels Baus and toured the world with them in their trilogy of spectacles Accions, Suz/O/Suz and Tier Mon. In 1990 he was asked by Deborah Warner to join the National Theatre in London to tour King Lear and Richard III, directed by Richard Eyre, staying on to play in Napoli Millionaria as part of the Lyttelton Theatre company. He also worked extensively at the National Theatre Studio with Simon Usher and there formed The Actors' Group. He left the National to work with David Freeman, playing Pentheus in Opera Factory's Bacchae at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, before moving into television to play the lead in Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' sit-com Over The Rainbow.

He was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Newcomer award for his portrayal of Ray in Simon Bennet's Drummers directed by Max Stafford-Clark at the New Ambassadors in London's West End. He also played SS Colonel Karl Schoengarth in the multi-award winning B.B.C./H.B.O film Conspiracy written by Loring Mandel and directed by Frank Pierson. He then played Jack the Ripper in Jonathan Kent's revival of Wedekind's Lulu in a new version by Nicolas Wright that started at the Almeida Theatre before transferring to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.