Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle

1961-04-14 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 55 Credits

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...

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The Performance

The Performance

2024

as Fugler

Acting

Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up:...

North of Normal

North of Normal

2023

as Papa Dick

5.2
Acting

After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.

Yesterday

Yesterday

2019

as John Lennon (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was ...

T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting

2017

as Begbie / Begbie's Father

6.9
Acting

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

2016

as Self

8.0
Acting

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from ...

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

Sean Connery: In His Own Words

2015

as Self

6.0
Acting

Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Sco...

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015

as Barney

6.1
Acting

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in fiv...

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015

Director

6.1
Directing

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in fiv...

California Solo

California Solo

2012

as Lachlan MacAldonich

5.6
Acting

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a ...

The Unloved

The Unloved

2009

as Lucy's Father

7.0
Acting

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow he...

The Tournament

The Tournament

2009

as Father Joseph MacAvoy

5.9
Acting

Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man stan...

Zig Zag Love

2009

as Jacko

7.3
Acting

When 16-year-old Peter suddenly loses his best friend to cancer, he breaks out of hospital and hits the road in pursuit of life, liberty and love with...

I Know You Know

I Know You Know

2009

as Charlie

5.8
Acting

Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his ow...

The Man Who Walked Around The World

2009

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

A six minute short film for Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskey featuring Robert Carlyle walking the hills of Loch Doyne in Scotland recounting, in full det...

Stone of Destiny

Stone of Destiny

2008

as John MacCormick

6.5
Acting

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scott...

Summer

Summer

2008

as Shaun

6.3
Acting

Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shau...

Memories of "Trainspotting"

Memories of "Trainspotting"

2008

as Self

Acting

This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge,...

Flood

Flood

2007

as Rob Morrison

5.3
Acting

Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...

28 Weeks Later

28 Weeks Later

2007

as Donald Harris

6.6
Acting

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the ...

Born Equal

Born Equal

2006

as Robert

5.0
Acting

Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.

Eragon

Eragon

2006

as Durza

5.1
Acting

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

as Frank Keane

5.8
Acting

Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on...

Carry On Ken

Carry On Ken

2006

as Self

Acting

A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing acto...

Dead Fish

Dead Fish

2005

as Danny Devine

5.5
Acting

Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Ba...

Class of '76

Class of '76

2005

as DI Tom Monroe

5.4
Acting

Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates....

The Mighty Celt

The Mighty Celt

2005

as O

6.3
Acting

Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownershi...

Hitler: The Rise Of Evil

Hitler: The Rise Of Evil

2003

as Adolf Hitler

8.0
Acting
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

2002

as Self / Narrator (voice)

6.5
Acting

A documentary about Die Another Day.

Black and White

Black and White

2002

as David O'Sullivan

5.6
Acting

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation M...

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

2002

as Jimmy

6.2
Acting

Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her d...

The 51st State

The 51st State

2001

as Felix DeSouza

6.1
Acting

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of decei...

To End All Wars

To End All Wars

2001

as Major Ian Campbell

6.4
Acting

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon,...

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

2000

as Eric Wirral

6.8
Acting

Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new ...

James Bond Down River

2000

as Self

5.0
Acting

Promotional documentary filmed at the London East End Docklands area and River Thames for the filming of the opening boat chase for The World Is Not E...

The Beach

The Beach

2000

as Daffy

6.5
Acting

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradis...

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

1999

as Malachy McCourt

7.3
Acting

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prej...

The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough

1999

as Renard

6.3
Acting

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress fro...

Ravenous

Ravenous

1999

as Ives / Colqhoun

6.8
Acting

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving...

Plunkett & MacLeane

Plunkett & MacLeane

1999

as Will Plunkett

6.1
Acting

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: T...

Face

Face

1997

as Ray

6.3
Acting

Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-be...

The Full Monty

The Full Monty

1997

as Gary "Gaz" Schofield

7.0
Acting

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

Carla's Song

Carla's Song

1996

as George Lennox

6.8
Acting

A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

The Lucky Suit

1996

Acting

The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996

as Begbie

8.0
Acting

Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seeming...

Go Now

Go Now

1995

as Nick Cameron

6.6
Acting

Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibi...

The Last Ten Minutes

1995

as Chris

Acting

Directed by Patrick Harkins. With Robert Carlyle.

Priest

Priest

1995

as Graham

6.3
Acting

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

Marooned

Marooned

1994

as Peter Camaron

Acting

The film centers around Peter Camaron who works at Left Luggage at a train station.

Being Human

Being Human

1994

as Priest

5.1
Acting

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Safe

Safe

1993

as Nosty

5.8
Acting

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

Tender Blue Eyes

Tender Blue Eyes

1992

as Richard Fascetti

Acting
Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff

1991

as Stevie

6.7
Acting

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working unde...

Silent Scream

Silent Scream

1990

as Big Woodsy

5.4
Acting

A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.

Byrne About Byrne

Byrne About Byrne

1988

as Spanky Farrell

Acting

In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his s...

November 1963

N/A

as Jack Ruby

Acting

Unfolds within the intense 48-hour period surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film sheds light on crime group the Chicago ...