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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Performance
2024
as Fugler
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
2023
as Papa Dick
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
2019
as John Lennon (uncredited)
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
2017
as Begbie / Begbie's Father
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
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
2015
as Self
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
2015
as Barney
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
2015
Director
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
2012
as Lachlan MacAldonich
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
2009
as Lucy's Father
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
2009
as Father Joseph MacAvoy
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
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
2009
as Charlie
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
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
2008
as John MacCormick
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
2008
as Shaun
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"
2008
as Self
This 2008 documentary, Memories of "Trainspotting," features interviews with director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge,...

Flood
2007
as Rob Morrison
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
2007
as Donald Harris
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
2006
as Robert
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.

Eragon
2006
as Durza
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
2006
as Frank Keane
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
2006
as Self
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
2005
as Danny Devine
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
2005
as DI Tom Monroe
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
2005
as O
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
2003
as Adolf Hitler

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
2002
as Self / Narrator (voice)
A documentary about Die Another Day.

Black and White
2002
as David O'Sullivan
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
2002
as Jimmy
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
2001
as Felix DeSouza
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
2001
as Major Ian Campbell
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
2000
as Eric Wirral
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
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
2000
as Daffy
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
1999
as Malachy McCourt
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
1999
as Renard
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
1999
as Ives / Colqhoun
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
1999
as Will Plunkett
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
1997
as Ray
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
1997
as Gary "Gaz" Schofield
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
1996
as George Lennox
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
The Lucky Suit
1996
The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

Trainspotting
1996
as Begbie
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
1995
as Nick Cameron
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
Directed by Patrick Harkins. With Robert Carlyle.

Priest
1995
as Graham
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

Marooned
1994
as Peter Camaron
The film centers around Peter Camaron who works at Left Luggage at a train station.

Being Human
1994
as Priest
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

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

Tender Blue Eyes
1992
as Richard Fascetti

Riff-Raff
1991
as Stevie
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
1990
as Big Woodsy
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.

Byrne About Byrne
1988
as Spanky Farrell
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
Unfolds within the intense 48-hour period surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film sheds light on crime group the Chicago ...