Born in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 14, 1961, Robert Carlyle studied at the Glasgow Arts Centre and the Royal Scottish Academy of Drama before co-founding the Raindog Theatre in 1991. He received acclaim for his performance in Ken Loach's 1990 comedy Riff-Raff and for his leading role as police constable Hamish Macbeth in the eponymous BBC series.Known for playing both sensitive working-class blokes and vicious psychotics, Carlyle gained greater recognition for his starring roles as a knife-wielding sociopath in Trainspotting and as a laid-off factory worker who persuades his friends to put on a male strip show in the Oscar-nominated sleeper hit The Full Monty.
Other notable films include Priest, Carla's Song, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. In 2005, Carlyle earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the miniseries "Human Trafficking."
AddThe Full MontyThis raucous English comedy follows a group of unemployed British steel-mill workers who, broke and bored, devise a fabulous scheme to get off the dole: Become male strippers! Soon they're a sensation with the ladies, who encourage the men to show the "full monty" (strip down to the skin). This... Read More
AddMarilyn Hotchkiss's Ballroom Dancing...Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama finds at its soft center Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle), a baker deeply despondent over the death of his wife. Frank finds redemption and hope in tragedy after he helps a stranger (John Goodman) who's sidelined by a fatal accident. It appears... Read More
AddHitler: The Rise of EvilThis sweeping TV biopic of Hitler (Robert Carlyle) recounts the dictator's early years, including his Austrian boyhood and his time as a struggling artist in Vienna, and ends with his rise to the German chancellorship in 1934. Along the way, the film examines how Germany's economic and political... Read More
AddPriestFather Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache), a devout Catholic priest, struggles with a love for his church and congregation -- and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover (Robert Carlyle). After hearing the confession of a young girl in his parish, who tells him her father is sexually abusing... Read More
AddFloodRobert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later, The Full Monty) stars in this pulse-raising thriller as Rob Morrison, a top-flight marine engineer who finds himself in the eye of the storm when London is stricken by a series of massive tidal waves. Aided by his ex-wife, Sam (Jessalyn Gilsig), and his father,... Read More
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