Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle as Malachy in Paramount's Angela's Ashes - 12/99

Biography

Born 04/14/1961

Despite a warm, genial personality, actor Robert Carlyle made a career out of playing dark, crazed and often brutally violent characters – or as he liked to call them, “f***ing nutters.” Whether playing a drunken thug, a homicidal vagrant, a sadistic sex slave trader or a down-and-out...
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Awards

  • In 1997, received Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actor
  • In 1997, received BAFTA Award for Best Actor
  • In 1997, received The Actor for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture

Highlights

  • In 2007, Co-starred in "28 Weeks Later," the sequel to Danny Boyle’s 2002 film "28 Days Later"
  • In 2006, Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for "Human Trafficking"
  • In 2006, Cast in "Eragon" a fantasy/adventure movie based on the novel of the same name

Family & Companions

  • Caroline Patterson: together in the early 1990s
  • Joe Carlyle: father (moved with son to a hippie commune on a Glasgow estate when his wife abandoned the family c. 1965; Carlyle was estranged from him for eight years (c. 1982-90); died c. 2006)
  • Elizabeth Carlyle: mother (left home when her son was four (c. 1965); Carlyle has no relationship with her)

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