Robert Carlyle.

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

Carlyle is perhaps best remembered for his role in The Full Monty, as the leader of a group of recently laid-off industrial workers who instead become professional striptease dancers in order to earn a 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 Mexican-American War soldier in Ravenous, the gay lover of Fr Greg in Priest and Hitler in Hitler: The Rise of Evil.