Name
Robert Carlyle
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1961-04-14 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography
Robert Carlyle OBE (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish actor. His film work includes Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), The Beach (2000), The 51st State (2001), Eragon (2006), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015). He has been in the television shows Hamish Macbeth, Stargate Universe, Once Upon a Time and COBRA.
He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in the miniseries Human Trafficking (2005).
Known For
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Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British...
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After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends S...
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Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreli...
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Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for B...
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Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates t...
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Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectr...
- 1996 Trainspotting as Begbie
- 2007 28 Weeks Later as Donald Harris
- 1996 Carla's Song as George Lennox
- 2000 There's Only One Jimmy Grimble as Eric Wirral
- 2001 The 51st State as Felix DeSouza
- 1999 Ravenous as Ives / Colqhoun
- 2001 To End All Wars as Major Ian Campbell
- 2000 The Beach as Daffy
- 2006 Eragon as Durza
- 1999 Plunkett & Macleane as Will Plunkett
- 1999 Angela's Ashes as Malachy McCourt
- 2005 The Mighty Celt as O
- 2009 I Know You Know as Charlie
- 2002 Once Upon a Time in the Midlands as Jimmy
- 2009 The Tournament as Father MacAvoy
- 2007 Flood as Rob Morrison
- 2008 Summer as Shaun
- 1997 The Full Monty as Gary "Gaz" Schofield
- 2008 Stone of Destiny as John MacCormick
- 1997 Face as Ray
- 1995 Priest as Graham
- 1999 The World Is Not Enough as Renard
- 1994 Being Human as Priest
- 1995 Go Now as Nick Cameron
- 2005 Dead Fish as Danny Devine
- 2009 The Unloved as Lucy's Father
- 2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Frank Keane
- 2005 Class of '76 as DI Tom Monroe
- 2012 California Solo as Lachlan MacAldonich
- 1991 Riff-Raff as Stevie
- 1992 Tender Blue Eyes as Richard Fascetti
- 2002 Black and White as David O'Sullivan
- 1994 Marooned as Peter
- 2009 The Man Who Walked Around the World as Narrator
- 2024 The Performance as Fugler
- 2015 The Legend of Barney Thomson as Barney
- 2023 North of Normal as Papa Dick
- 1993 Safe as Nosty
- 1988 Byrne About Byrne as Spanky Farrell
- 2006 Born Equal as Robert
- 2016 Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood as Self
- 2017 T2 Trainspotting as Begbie / Begbie's Father
- 1990 Silent Scream as Big Woodsy
- 2019 Yesterday as John Lennon (uncredited)
- 2015 Sean Connery: In His Own Words as Self
- 2000 James Bond Down River as Self
- 2009 Zig Zag Love as Jacko
- 2002 Die Another Day: From Script to Screen as Self / Narrator (voice)
- 2006 Carry On Ken as Self
- 1996 The Lucky Suit
- 1995 The Last Ten Minutes as Chris
- 2026 November 1963 as Jack Ruby
- 2008 Memories of "Trainspotting" as Self
- Soon Ben & Lucy as Dan
- 2010 Gerard Kelly: A Celebration as Self
- 2023 Off the Rails: The Making of “Trainspotting”
- 2007 Code Red: The Making of '28 Weeks Later' as Self
- Soon Chewin' the Fat: Hogmanay Special 2001 as Various
- 1993 Cracker ( 3 episodes ) as Albie
- 2009 Stargate Universe ( 40 episodes ) as Nicholas Rush
- 2008 The Last Enemy ( 5 episodes ) as David Russell
- 2005 Human Trafficking ( 2 episodes ) as Sergei Karpovich
- 1998 Looking After Jo Jo ( 4 episodes ) as John Joe 'Jo Jo' McCann
- 1995 Hamish Macbeth ( 20 episodes ) as Hamish Macbeth
- 2011 Once Upon a Time ( 156 episodes ) as Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin / Weaver
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Toxic Town ( 4 episodes ) as Sam Hagen
- 2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil ( 2 episodes ) as Adolf Hitler
- 2005 Class of '76 ( 2 episodes ) as DI Tom Monroe
- 2023 The Full Monty ( 8 episodes ) as Gary 'Gaz' Schofield
- 2004 Gunpowder, Treason & Plot ( 2 episodes ) as King James I
- 2019 The War of the Worlds ( 3 episodes ) as Ogilvy
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 COBRA ( 18 episodes ) as Robert Sutherland
- 2025 The Hack ( 7 episodes ) as DCS Dave Cook
- 2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 To Be A Somebody ( 1 episode ) as Albie Kinsella
- 2025 Watson ( 9 episodes ) as Sherlock Holmes
- 1986 ScreenPlay ( 1 episode ) as Nosty
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Graham
- 1994 99-1 ( 1 episode ) as DC Robert Preston
