Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle (born April 14, 1961) is a popular Scottish movie actor.

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April 14 - 1961 - Scottish

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Carlyle, born in Glasgow, was abandoned by his mother at the age of four. Inspired after reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible, he enrolled in acting class at the age of 21, at the Glasgow Arts Centre. In 1991, he and four friends founded an acting company. He first came to the attention of the public as a psychotic murderer in an episode of Cracker (in which he killed Christopher Eccleston among others), but was soon playing a more sympathetic role, that of Highland policeman, Hamish Macbeth, in the BBC comedy-drama of the same name.

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Glasgow - Arthur Miller - The Crucible - 1991 - Cracker - Christopher Eccleston - Hamish Macbeth - BBC

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In 1997, Carlyle married Anastasia Shirley. In 2002, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Ava.

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1997 - Anastasia Shirley - 2002

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Carlyle is perhaps best remembered for his role in The Full Monty, as the leader of a group of men who must perform striptease to earn their living, and Trainspotting, in which he played the psychopathic thug Begbie. Other memorable roles included the villain Renard in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, a cannibalistic American Civil War soldier in Ravenous and Hitler in '.

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The Full Monty - Striptease - Trainspotting - Psychopath - James Bond - The World Is Not Enough - Cannibal - American Civil War - Ravenous - Hitler

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