Robert Carlyle
Highest Rated: 100% North of Normal (2022)
Lowest Rated: 16% Eragon (2006)
Birthday: Apr 14, 1961
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Despite a warm, genial personality, actor Robert Carlyle made a career out of playing dark, crazed and often brutally violent characters, but none more vivid and visceral than the sociopathic Begbie in his breakout film, "Trainspotting" (1996). Prior to his international breakthrough, Carlyle spent three seasons as the star of the police series "Hamish Macbeth" (BBC Scotland, 1995-98), while appearing in a number of British-made films. After "Trainspotting," however, Carlyle did an about-face to play a down-and-out steelworker who marshals his fellow out-of-work mates to earn cash by staging an all-male strip review in the critically heralded comedy "The Full Monty" (1997). Following a sympathetic turn in "Angela's Ashes" (1999), he was arch-villain Renard to Pierce Brosnan's James Bond in "The World is Not Enough" (1999) and a crazed man ranting about a hidden paradise in Danny Boyle's "The Beach" (2000). He went on to brilliantly portray the Führer in "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" (2003) and a powerful sex trafficker in "Human Trafficking" (Lifetime Television, 2005). On the small screen, he continued delivering the goods as a mad scientist on "Stargate Universe" (Syfy, 2009-2011) and the Machiavellian Rumpelstiltskin on "Once Upon a Time" (ABC, 2011- ). No matter what type of role he played, Carlyle fully inhabited each character with such force and conviction that he developed a solid reputation for being one of the most electrifying performers on either side of the Atlantic.
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Robert Carlyle
Filmography
Movies
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100% |
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North of Normal | Papa Dick (Character) | - | 2022 |
81% |
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T2 Trainspotting |
Begbie/ |
$2.4M | 2017 |
62% |
|
The Legend of Barney Thomson |
Barney (Character), Director |
- | 2015 |
68% |
|
California Solo |
Lachlan (Character), Executive Producer |
$15.4K | 2012 |
95% |
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The Unloved | Father (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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The Tournament | Father MacAvoy (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Enemy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
78% |
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Summer | Shaun (Character) | - | 2008 |
53% |
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Stone of Destiny | John MacCormick (Character) | - | 2008 |
80% |
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24: Redemption | Carl Benton (Character) | - | 2008 |
64% |
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I Know You Know | Charlie (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Flood | Rob Morrison (Character) | - | 2007 |
72% |
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28 Weeks Later | Don (Character) | $28.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Born Equal | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
16% |
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Eragon | Durza (Character) | $75.0M | 2006 |
71% |
|
The Mighty Celt | O (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Class of '76 | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
22% |
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | Frank Keane (Character) | $247.1K | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Human Trafficking | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Dead Fish | Danny Devine (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
51% |
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | Jimmy (Character) | $171.8K | 2002 |
43% |
|
Black and White | David O'Sullivan (Character) | - | 2002 |
62% |
|
To End All Wars | Maj. Ian Campbell (Character) | - | 2001 |
25% |
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The 51st State | Felix DeSouza (Character) | $5.2M | 2001 |
71% |
|
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble | Eric Wirral (Character) | - | 2000 |
21% |
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The Beach | Daffy (Character) | $39.8M | 2000 |
52% |
|
Ravenous |
Col. Ives/ |
$2.1M | 1999 |
52% |
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Angela's Ashes | Malachy McCourt Sr. (Character) | $13.0M | 1999 |
51% |
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The World Is Not Enough | Victor 'Renard' Zokas (Character) | $126.9M | 1999 |
24% |
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Plunkett & Macleane | Plunkett (Character) | $471.4K | 1999 |
38% |
|
Face | Ray (Character) | - | 1997 |
96% |
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The Full Monty | Gaz (Character) | $45.9M | 1997 |
88% |
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Carla's Song | George (Character) | $18.4K | 1996 |
90% |
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Trainspotting | Francis (Franco) Begbie (Character) | $16.6M | 1996 |
60% |
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Go Now | Nick Cameron (Character) | $29.5K | 1995 |
64% |
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Priest | Graham (Character) | $3.8M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safe | Nosty (Character) | - | 1993 |
90% |
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Riff-Raff | Stevie (Character) | $292.5K | 1991 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 73% | COBRA | Robert Sutherland (Character) | 2020-2021 2023 |
68% | 77% | The Full Monty | Gaz (Character) | 2023 |
68% | 26% | The War of the Worlds | Ogilvy (Character) | 2019 |
78% | 78% | Once Upon a Time |
Rumplestiltskin/ |
2011-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2017 |
70% | 75% | Stargate Universe |
Dr. Nicholas Rush (Character), Director |
2009-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Looking After Jo Jo | John Joe `Jo Jo' McCann (Character) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hamish Macbeth | Hamish Macbeth (Character) | 1995-1997 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Cracker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |