Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle OBE is a Scottish actor. His film work includes: Trainspotting (1996), The Full Monty (1997), Ravenous and The World Is Not Enough (both 1999), There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000), The Beach (2000), The 51st State (2001), Eragon (2006), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015). He has starred in television series such as Hamish Macbeth (1995–1998), Stargate Universe (2009-2011), Once Upon a Time (2011-2018) and COBRA (2020-2023).

He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Full Monty and a Gemini Award for Stargate Universe, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in the miniseries Human Trafficking (2005).

Carlyle’s upcoming roles include Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald in the film November 1963, DCS Dave Cook in The Hack, an ITVX drama about the News International phone hacking scandal, and Sherlock Holmes in the second season of the CBS series Watson.