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Robert Carlyle
Carlyle as Viktor 'Renard' Zokas in a promo poster for The World Is Not Enough, holding an FN P90.
Birth name	Robert Carlyle
Born	April 14, 1961 (age 45) Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland
Other name(s)	Bobby
Spouse(s)	Anastasia Shirley (28 December 1997 - present) 3 children
Notable roles	Viktor 'Renard' Zokas in The World Is Not Enough Begbie in Trainspotting

Robert Carlyle OBE (born April 14, 1961, in Glasgow) is a Scottish movie actor.

Carlyle was abandoned by his mother at the age of four and raised by his father, Joe. 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 and guest starred in The Bill. He first came to the attention of the public as a psychotic murderer in an episode of Cracker (in which he killed the character played by Christopher Eccleston among others), but was soon playing a more sympathetic role, that of Highland policeman, Hamish Macbeth, in the eponymous BBC comedy-drama.

Carlyle is perhaps best known for his role in The Full Monty, as the leader of a group of laid-off industrial workers who become striptease dancers in order to make some quick money, and Trainspotting, in which he played the volatile, sadistic thug Francis Begbie. Other memorable roles included the senior Malachy McCourt (father of author Frank McCourt) in the 1999 film adaptation of McCourt's first memoir, "Angela's Ashes," the villain Renard in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, a cannibalistic Mexican-American War soldier in Ravenous, the gay lover of Father Greg in Priest and Adolf Hitler in Hitler: The Rise of Evil. Most recently, Robert has played the part of Durza the Shade in Eragon.

In 1997, Carlyle married Anastasia Shirley. In 2002, she gave birth to their first child, daughter Ava. In 2004, their second child, Harvey, was born. The Carlyles' third child, Pearce Joseph, was born in 2006.

Robert is reported to be a supporter of Partick Thistle Football Club.

• 28 Weeks Later (2007)
• Eragon (2006)
• Class of '76 (2005)
• Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)
• Human Trafficking TV (2005) (Emmy nomination Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie)
• The Mighty Celt (2005), with Gillian Anderson
• Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003, as Adolf Hitler)
• Black and White (2002)
• Once Upon a Time in The Midlands (2002)
• Formula 51 (2002)
• The 51st State (2001)
• To End All Wars (2001)
• There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
• The Beach (2000, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio)
• Angela's Ashes (1999, alongside Emily Watson)
• The World Is Not Enough (1999)
• Ravenous (1999)
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
• Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
• Face (1997)
• The Full Monty (1997)
• Carla's Song (1996)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• Go Now (1995)
• Hamish Macbeth (1995-97) (TV)
• Priest (1994)
• 99-1 (1994)
• Being Human (1993)
• Safe (1993)
• Tender Blue Eyes (1992)
• Riff-Raff (1990)
• Silent Scream (1990)

• Robert Carlyle at the Internet Movie Database
• Robert Carlyle biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
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