Actors - Robert Carlyle

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Robert Carlyle

	Actors - Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle, OBE (born April 14, 1961) is a Scottish movie actor.

Carlyle, born in Glasgow, was abandoned by his mother at the age of four. Inspired after reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible, he enrolled in acting class at the age of 21, at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In 1991, he and four friends founded an acting company. He first came to the attention of the public as a psychotic murderer in an episode of Cracker (in which he killed the character played by Christopher Eccleston among others), but was soon playing a more sympathetic role, that of Highland policeman, Hamish Macbeth, in the eponymous BBC comedy-drama.

In 1997, Carlyle married Anastasia Shirley. In 2002, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Ava.

Carlyle is perhaps best remembered for his role in The Full Monty
, as the leader of a group of men who must perform striptease to earn their living, and Trainspotting, in which he played the psychopathic thug Begbie. Other memorable roles included the villain Renard in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough
, a cannibalistic Mexican-American War soldier in Ravenous
, the gay lover of Fr. Greg in Priest
and Hitler in Hitler: The Rise of Evil
.

Filmography

Eragon (2006)
Class Of '76 (2005)
Human Trafficking TV (2005)
The Mighty Celt
(2005), with Gillian Anderson
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
(2003, as Adolf Hitler)
Black and White (2002)
Once Upon a Time in The Midlands (2002)
The 51st State
(2001)
To End All Wars
(2001)
There's Only one Jimmy Grimble (2000)
The Beach
(2000, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio
)
Angela's Ashes
(1999, alongside Emily Watson
)
The World Is Not Enough
(1999)
Ravenous
(1999)
Plunkett and Macleane (1999)
Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
Face (1997)
The Full Monty
(1997)
Carla's Song
(1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Go Now (1995)
Hamish Macbeth (1995)
Priest
(1994)
99-1 (1994)
Being Human
(1993)
Safe (1993)
Tender Blue Eyes (1992)
Riff-Raff (1990)
Silent Scream (1990)

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Robert Carlyle ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Robert Carlyle; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay