
Robert Carlyle
Highest Rated: 96% The Full Monty (1997)
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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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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81% | 78% | T2 Trainspotting |
Begbie/ |
$2.4M | 2017 |
62% | 52% | The Legend of Barney Thomson |
Barney (Character), Director |
- | 2015 |
68% | 55% | California Solo |
Lachlan (Character), Executive Producer |
$15.4K | 2012 |
94% | 67% | The Unloved | Father (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 40% | The Tournament | Father MacAvoy (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 68% | The Last Enemy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
64% | 50% | I Know You Know | Charlie (Character) | - | 2008 |
80% | 67% | 24: Redemption | Carl Benton (Character) | - | 2008 |
53% | 58% | Stone of Destiny | John MacCormick (Character) | - | 2008 |
78% | 62% | Summer | Shaun (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Flood | Rob Morrison (Character) | - | 2007 |
71% | 66% | 28 Weeks Later | Don (Character) | $28.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Born Equal | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
16% | 47% | Eragon | Durza (Character) | $75M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Human Trafficking | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
22% | 61% | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | Frank Keane (Character) | $247.1K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Class of '76 | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
67% | 65% | The Mighty Celt | O (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Dead Fish | Danny Devine (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 73% | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
43% | 59% | Black and White | David O'Sullivan (Character) | - | 2002 |
51% | 45% | Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | Jimmy (Character) | $171.8K | 2002 |
62% | 85% | To End All Wars | Maj. Ian Campbell (Character) | - | 2001 |
26% | 59% | The 51st State | Felix DeSouza (Character) | $5.2M | 2001 |
20% | 57% | The Beach | Daffy (Character) | $39.8M | 2000 |
71% | 74% | There's Only One Jimmy Grimble | Eric Wirral (Character) | - | 2000 |
51% | 81% | Angela's Ashes | Malachy McCourt Sr. (Character) | $13M | 1999 |
48% | 78% | Ravenous |
Col. Ives/ |
$2.1M | 1999 |
24% | 68% | Plunkett & Macleane | Plunkett (Character) | $471.4K | 1999 |
52% | 49% | The World Is Not Enough | Victor 'Renard' Zokas (Character) | $126.9M | 1999 |
38% | 71% | Face | Ray (Character) | - | 1997 |
96% | 79% | The Full Monty | Gaz (Character) | $45.9M | 1997 |
86% | 80% | Carla's Song | George (Character) | $18.4K | 1996 |
91% | 93% | Trainspotting | Francis (Franco) Begbie (Character) | $16.6M | 1996 |
60% | 73% | Go Now | Nick Cameron (Character) | $29.5K | 1995 |
70% | 83% | Priest | Graham (Character) | $3.8M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safe | Nosty (Character) | - | 1993 |
90% | 82% | Riff-Raff | Stevie (Character) | $292.5K | 1991 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cobra | Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 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% | 72% | Stargate Universe | Dr. Nicholas Rush (Character) | 2009-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flood | Unknown (Character) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Human Trafficking | Sergei Karpovich (Character) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitler | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hamish Macbeth | Unknown (Character) | 1995-1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cracker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
QUOTES FROM Robert Carlyle CHARACTERS
Stevie says: Depression's for the middle classes.
Renard says: Welcome to my nuclear family.
Durza says: When a rider dies, the last thing he hears are the agonising screams of his dying dragon!
Father says: OK, I'm going to give you one last chance. Where's the fooking money!
Durza says: I expected more.
Durza says: I expected you to be more... more... well, more.
Durza says: It is said that as a Rider takes his last breath, he can hear the dying screams of his dragon.