Robert Carlyle
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Glasgow, 14 April 2020
Well, more like TV roles really. It seems that the less you see of an actor, the more they are keeping their head down and working their backsides off. Robert has been incredibly busy of late, there was the Hitler drama, and then he has been cast as the lead in the BBC TV drama called Benny Lynch. As we all know, Benny Lynch was the Glaswegian born boxing star, who went on to become Scotlands first ever World Boxing Champion. The producer of this will be Andrea Calderwood, whose company Slate Fims is developing the idea, along with another production that will be a 1930’s comedy - with Robert as Stan Laurel and maybe Robbie Coltrane as Oliver Hardy!
Robert is now is the process of filming a mini TV series which is called ’Gunpowder, Treason and Plot’. He will portray King James 1st opposite Clémence Poésy as Mary, Queen of Scots. Another heart-throb - Paul Nicholls is also in this series. The next thing Robert has lined up is called Light in the Sky, which will also star Ryan Phillippe. That film takes Robert comfortably way into 2004! Phew - busy! No time for a pint for this lad!
Carlyle is Hitler - 18/12/02
Glasgow born actor Robert Carlyle has signed up to star as the German dictator Adolf Hitler for a four-hour miniseries.
Carlyle will assume the role of Adolf Hitler, whose life is traced from his birth in Austria in 1889 to 1933, the year he became chancellor of Germany. The miniseries is scheduled to begin production in the next month in Prague. The American channel CBS hopes to air the series late next year.
Robert Carlyle honoured - 22/11/02
Film star Robert Carlyle has received an honorary degree in the city where he shot to fame as the psychotic character Begbie in Trainspotting.
The 41-year-old Glasgow-born actor was among a clutch of leading figures from the arts, architecture and business honoured by Napier University in Edinburgh. Carlyle received an honorary Doctor of Arts Degree in recognition of his contribution to Scottish drama since he graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
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He dropped out of school at 16 and spent his time working as a painter and decorator. Robert enrolled in acting classes at the Glasgow Arts Centre after finding inspiration in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and won a scholarship to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (although he left after a term as he became dissatisfied with the institution). He then got an equity card from his appearance as Oberon in the Royal Scottish Orchestra’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
His first TV title role was as personable policeman Hamish Macbeth (a world away from his role as a psychotic killer in Cracker) and from there won international acclaim when he made his film debut in Ken Loach’s Riff Raff (1990). But the two roles that made Robert Carlyle a household name were poles apart - one an angry psycho called Begbie in Trainspotting and the other an out of work steelworker in The Full Monty. After these films his career has gone from strength to strength - appearing as the baddie in James Bond ’The World is not Enough’ and starring opposite Samual L Jackson in The 51st State. H has also played Hitler in The Rise of Evil and appeared in 2006’s fantasy, Eragon.
He married Anastasia in 1997 in Scotland, and they have a daughter Ava who was born on July 4, 2002, and two sons; Harvey, born in April 2004 and Pearce, born in 2006.
April 2007