Robert Carlyle is one of Scotland's most successful and versatile actors yet one role has defined his career more than any other. Begbie in the 1996 film Trainspotting catapulted him to the public's ...

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Carlyle is to reprise his role as the notorious Francis Begbie in a TV version of Irvine Welsh‘s Trainspotting sequel The Blade Artist. More than 25 years on from his star turn in ...

TRAINSPOTTING hardman Begbie is to get his own TV show, it’s emerged. Plans for a six-part series based on the violent psycho were revealed by Robert Carlyle, who played him in two films. The ...

T2 Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle has hinted at another movie in the franchise for his character Begbie. The actor said that we could see more of Begbie on screen, especially now that author Irvine ...

Now known as Jim Francis, Begbie is a reformed character who believes he has found the perfect life. But a return to Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he hardly knows confronts him with a ...