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Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle was raised in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, by his father Joseph, after his mother left him when he was only four. At the age of 21, after reading Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," he enrolled in acting classes at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In 1991, together with four other actors, he founded the Raindog theatre company (named after Tom Waits' album "Rain Dog," one of Carlyle's favorites), a company dedicated to innovative work.


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Robert Carlyle - what members say


  • The World Is Not Enough
  • The World Is Not Enough review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
    Rated - 5 stars the second best bond film, great! 13 June 2004
    ...he evil terrorist Victor Zockas a. k. a. Renard the russian anarchist. Renard [ Robert Carlyle] had captured and tortured young woman named Elektra King played by Sophie Marc...  
  • The Full Monty
  • The Full Monty review by jeanette martin from London,England
    Rated - 5 stars Great comedy 26 May 2007
    ...be one of the best comedies ever.Great script,good music and great performances.Robert Carlyle is especially good.Definately one for the ladies but most men will love this to...  
  • Angela's Ashes
  • Angela's Ashes review by Steve916 from Tyne and Wear
    Rated - 4 stars An entertaining Sunday afternoon Film. 22 February 2004
    ...ions and have a weep and feel for all the characters. Compelling acting, one of Robert Carlyle's finest performances....  

Robert Carlyle - filmography


  • Summer (2008)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Rachael Blake,  Steve Evets
    Director: Kenneth Glenaan
    Certificate: 15
    Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and takes Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years ..read more »
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  • Flood on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Jessalyn Gilsig,  Tom Courtenay
    Director: Tony Mitchell
    Certificate: 12
    When a raging storm coincides with high seas the unthinkable happens; A colossal tidal surge slams into the Thames barrier, threatening the lives of millions of Londoners. It falls to three top marine engineers and barrier experts to find a way to save the city from total devastation.
    Rate this: 2.5 51% from 18,813 members
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  • Eragon - BLU-RAY Version (2006)
    Starring: Edward Speleers,  Djimon Hounsou,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: Stefen Fangmeier
    Certificate: PG
    Based on the first novel in Christopher Paolini's popular INHERITANCE trilogy, ERAGON is a fantastical adventure in a vein similar to that of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. A classic story of a quest driven by destiny and set in a land where elves, magicians, and humans ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 59% from 1,301 members
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  • Gunpowder, Treason And Plot on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Emilia Fox,  Paul Nicholls
    Director: Gillies Mackinnon
    Certificate: 15
    Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern explores the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son, James I in this BBC drama. Robert Carlyle leads a prestigious cast in this lavish production. Peopled with infamous characters, driven by compelling drama and life with love, lust, politics and prejudice, we ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 70% from 261 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Charles Dance,  Kerry Fox
    Director: Craig Lahiff
    Certificate: 15
    In 1950s Australia, Max Stuart, an illiterate Aborigine, is suddenly arrested by police for murdering a nine year old white girl. He crumbles under interrogation and signs a confession to the killing, signing away his right to life. Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox play young, naive defence lawyers ..read more »
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  • To End All Wars on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kiefer Sutherland,  Robert Carlyle,  Ciaran McMenamin
    Director: David L. Cunningham
    Certificate: 15
    Based on Ernest Gordon's autobiographical novel--originally titled "Through The Valley Of The Kwai"--TO END ALL WARS details Gordon's remarkable survival in a World War Two Prisoner Of War camp. As Allied soldiers, Major Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin) and his fellow prisoners are subject to unspeakable ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 68% from 205 members
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  • The 51st State on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Robert Carlyle,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Ronny Yu
    Certificate: 18
    Kilt-wearing master chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) has developed a new drug that is more potent then cocaine or Ecstasy. Best of all, none of the ingredients are illegal, meaning that this substance could easily be sold worldwide. Unfortunately for McElroy, he is caught in the snare of ..read more »
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  • There's Only One Jimmy Grimble on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Ray Winstone,  Gina McKee
    Director: John Hay
    Certificate: 12
    This football fairy tale follows the life of young Jimmy Grimble (Lewis McKenzie), a shy Manchester school boy. When an old woman (Jane Lapotaire) rescues Jimmy from being roughed up by bullies, she gives him a pair of boots that belonged to a City legend. Soon Jimmy's on his way to becoming a top ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 74% from 199 members
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  • The World Is Not Enough (2 discs) on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Sophie Marceau,  Judi Dench
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: 12
    Complete with ski chases, casino hijinks, high-tech gadgetry, and sultry women, the 19th installment in the James Bond franchise features the increasingly at ease Pierce Brosnan in his third appearance as 007, in a race to save the world's oil supply. Sophie Marceau (BRAVEHEART) stars as Elektra ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 6,896 members
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  • Ravenous on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Robert Carlyle,  David Arquette
    Director: Antonia Bird
    Certificate: 18
    A cowardly American soldier (Guy Pearce) is stationed at an isolated military outpost with a bunch of misfits in Sierra Nevada following the Mexican-American War in 1847. When a dazed survivor (Robert Carlyle) of an unfortunate mountain expedition shows up at the outpost, it isn't long before he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 64% from 815 members
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  • Angela's Ashes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Emily Watson,  Joe Breen
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: 15
    ANGELA'S ASHES is the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (played at various ages by Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge), whose personal memoir became a worldwide phenomenon. When eldest son Frank's baby sister dies and father Malachy (Robert Carlyle) can find no work, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 534 members
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  • The Full Monty (2 discs) on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Tom Wilkinson,  Mark Addy
    Director: Peter Cattaneo
    Certificate: 15
    In hopes of raising a few quid after their steel factory shuts down, a desperate group of working-class blokes in Sheffield decide to form an exotic male dance troupe, a la Chippendales, with one difference despite their, well, average-at-best physiques, they're going to go the full monty, meaning ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 5,772 members
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  • Trainspotting (2 discs) (1995)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Jonny Lee Miller,  Kevin McKidd
    Director: Danny Boyle
    Certificate: 18
    A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton (Ewan McGregor), a brash twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 13,078 members
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  • Riff Raff on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Ricky Tomlinson,  Robert Carlyle,  Emer McCourt
    Director: Ken Loach
    Certificate: 15
    Director Ken Loach's concern for the plight of the working man takes a comic turn in this gritty film starring Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as Stevie, a young Scotsman who finds a construction job in the north of London turning an old hospital into luxury condos. Like most of the largely non-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 67% from 338 members
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