Peter Aylward is best known for The Untouchables(1987), Lonely Hearts(2006), My Blind Brother(2016) and Nothing is Impossible(2022). He was born in England and raised in Illinois. He was part of the Penn State MFA Acting Program in the 1970's. Theatre credits include Off-Broadway, as King Lear/Curan in King Lear (Union Square Theatre); and regionally, the Guthrie Theatre, the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Northlight Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, New American Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.