Robert Carlyle
☼ Born on 14 December 1961, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
BiographyRobert Carlyle was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, to Elizabeth, a bus company employee, and Joseph Carlyle, a painter and decorator. He was raised by his father after his mother left him when he was 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. Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting (1996) marked his breakthrough.
In the role of actor
T2 Trainspotting (17/03/2017)
Danny Boyle returns to the characters from Irvine Welsh’s novels two decades later in T2 Trainspotting. After living in Amsterdam, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to Edinburgh twenty years after stealing the money from a drug deal and is reunited with his old friends Daniel “Spud” Murphy (Ewen Bremner) and Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller), who […]
California Solo (01/03/2013)
In California Solo, Robert Carlyle plays Lachlan MacAldonich, the former guitarist of a somewhat successful Britpop band. MacAldonich has long since given up music and is quite haunted by the tragic death of his older brother, who was the band’s lead singer. He currently lives a meagre existence working on a farm by day, while […]
Stone of Destiny (28/02/2009)
This Canada/UK co-production was the closing film at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. The film tells the true story about a group of Scottish youths that break into Westminster Abbey to steal back the Stone of Destiny and reignite Scottish national pride. It was overall a nice little film. I have some Scottish/Irish background, so […]
28 Weeks Later (13/05/2007)
So, this is the sequel to the apocalyptic zombie/virus flick 28 Days Later. This was definitely more of a grim and intense movie than the first film. While the first film had a period where nothing much happened, in this film the characters were always in danger (either by “the infected” or the U.S army, […]