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Robert 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 marked his breakthrough.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 New Years Honours List for his services to drama.
Founded a theater company in 1991.
Ranked seventh in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British actors.
In 2002, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Ava.
Owns the Rain Dog Theatre Company, named after the album "Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits.
A partner in the British film production company 4 Ways along with Antonia Bird , Irvine Welsh and Mark Cousins.
Son Harvey born March 2004.
Has not seen his estranged mother, Liz McDonald, since he was four years old.
His father, Joe, died at age 76 on January 7, 2006, and was buried in Maryhill, Glasgow, on January 14th.
Son, Pearce Joseph, born April 2006 at Queen Mothers Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (renamed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland [RCS] in 2011) and formed his own theatre company, Rain Dog, in 1991.
Turned down a role in 28 Days Later... before taking a role in 28 Weeks Later .
At age 17 he once worked as a butcher.
Featured in the music video for the Oasis song "Little by Little".
Turned down a major role in Flight of the Phoenix .
He was given the Special Acting Recognition Award by the Tallgrass Film Festival for his work in California Solo.
He is of both Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Good friends with Ewan McGregor who he worked with on Trainspotting and its sequel T2 Trainspotting ..
He missed out on Christopher Eccleston s roles in Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later... , both of which were directed by Danny Boyle. They did appear together in the "Cracker" storyline "To Be A Somebody".
He was originally offered David Thewlis role in Divorcing Jack , but he had to drop out when the shoot dates were changed and he became unavailable.
He was considered to replace David Tennant in "Doctor Who" . He ultimately appeared in "SGU Stargate Universe" .
He is a patron of School For Life in Romania.
He supports Rangers F.C.
He was considered for Willem Dafoe s role in Go Go Tales .
I owe my father everything.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy,in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the,project is about something substantive.
I rant and rave about noise pollution.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it,has the most intelligent fans in the world.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first,seven years were certainly the darkness.
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old,my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for,my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be,a director.
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
Acting is a really insular thing.
I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.
The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.
When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on,communes.
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional,actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did,acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang.
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural,ability in comedy.
To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass.
On his wife: We met in "Cracker" (1993) . I played a maniac fan,who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone,interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like,you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and,some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.
On filming in his native Glasgow: At times it was incredibly emotional.
(On making [link=tt0119164): I thought it was a load of fucking pish, to,be honest.
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. .
