Line #15 Creator/RobertCarlyle


1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rcarlyle_3120.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:250:''[[Series/OnceUponATime All magic comes with a price.]]'']]
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4	->''"Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting."''
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6	Dr. Robert Carlyle OBE (born 14 April 1961 in Glasgow, Scotland) doesn't use the Doctor title.
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8	Robert is an actor born in Glasgow, and he frequently plays ViolentGlaswegian characters as well as villains in general. Despite this, his co-stars on ''Series/OnceUponATime'' have noted that it's really hard to be scared of him/act as such because he's a really nice guy in real life. His best known roles include ''Film/TheFullMonty'', ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', and the aforementioned ''Once Upon a Time''. He also appears in the video for the Music/{{Oasis}} song "Little by Little".
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11	!Roles
12	* ''Literature/AngelasAshes'', 1999 adaptation: Malachy [=McCourt=] Sr.
13	* ''Film/TheFullMonty'': Gary "Gaz" Schofield
14	* ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'': Plunkett
15	* ''Film/{{Ravenous\|1999}}'': Colonel Ives / F.W. Colqhoun
16	* ''Film/TheBeach'': Daffy
17	* ''Film/The51stState'': Felix [=DeSouza=]
18	* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' and ''Film/T2Trainspotting'': Francis Begbie
19	* ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'': Don Harris
20	* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': Renard
21	* ''Film/{{Eragon}}'': Durza
22	* ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24: Redemption]]'': Carl Benton
23	* ''Series/HamishMacbeth''
24	* ''Series/HumanTrafficking'': Sergei Karpovich
25	* ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'': UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler
26	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': [[Characters/OnceUponATimeRumplestiltskin Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold]]
27	* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Nicholas Rush
28	* ''Film/TheTournament'': Father Joseph [=MacAvoy=]
29	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'': Gabriel Belmont/[[spoiler:[[Characters/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadowDracula Dracula]]]]
30	* ''Series/{{The Full Monty\|2023}}'': Gary "Gaz" Schofield
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33	!Tropes
34	* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The character Herr Kleiser from the comic book ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' was designed after Carlyle's likeness.
35	* CreatorBacklash: He hated that [[spoiler:Neal was killed off]] in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', feeling Rumplestiltskin's character lost his main motivations afterwards.
36	* DyeingForYourArt: He had shoulder length hair when the ''Trainspotting'' sequel was put in production, which he cut off for it. As a result, Rumpelstiltskin has short hair in Season 6 of ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
37	* FakeBrit: He's played English characters in ''Film/TheFullMonty'', ''The 51st State'' and ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater''.
38	* PlayingWithCharacterType: He often plays the ButtMonkey of the story. Rumplestiltskin from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' starts out like that, but grows to resent his status as such, and becomes the Dark One to pull off a WhosLaughingNow?.
39	* ProductionPosse: With Creator/DannyBoyle - in ''{{Film/Trainspotting}}'' (and its eventual sequel), ''Film/TheBeach'', ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'' (though he was a producer on that one). He was once quoted as saying "I'd work with Danny Boyle any day of the week."
40	* TypeCasting: Usually an unlucky ButtMonkey, but he does have quite a bit of range.

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