Peter Atkins was born in Liverpool, England on 2 November 1955. He was a founder member of The Dog Company, a 1970s avant-garde theatre group, along with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley - with whom he would later work on the Hellraiser movies. As well as his movie and TV work, he is the author of the novels Morningstar (1992) and Big Thunder (1997) and the collection Wishmaster and Others (1999). He is married to Dana Middleton and lives in Los Angeles, California.