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Pete Postlethwaite Wife: Who Is Jacqueline Morrish?

By Christopher Martinez

Jacqueline Morrish is known as the wife of the late English character actor Pete Postlethwaite.

Morrish is a former BBC producer in 1987. She met Postlethwaite when she was working with BBC.

The pair tied the knot in 2003 at St Nicholas’ Church, Itchenor.

They had two children, William John “Billy” born in 1989, and Lily Kathleen born in 1996. Billy is an actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has most notably appeared in the TV series Holby City, Game of Thrones, and Chernobyl.

Aside from these facts, Morrish’s other details are not available.

However, her late husband Pete William Postlethwaite was an English character actor.

His minor television appearance includes The Professionals, his first major success arose through the British autobiographical film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).

Postlethwaite had a transatlantic breakthrough when he portrayed David in Alien 3 (1992), and his international reputation was further solidified when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In the Name of the Father.

Postlethwaite died of pancreatic cancer at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on 2 January 2011, he was 65 years old.