Robert Cavanah
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Robert Cavanah | |
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| Born | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, writer, producer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Spouse | none |
| Website | rcavanah-fansite |
Robert Cavanah is a Scottish stage and film actor, writer, director and producer.
Biography
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Robert Cavanah was born in Edinburgh. He attended James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh followed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1986. However, he left after just one term but went on to graduate from a three-year acting course at Drama Centre London in 1994, part of the University of the Arts London.[citation needed]
He now lives in Kent.
Career
Filmmaking
Cavanah wrote, produced and directed the short films Soldier's Leap (1999), Fish (2001), and Trumps (2001).[citation needed]
He made his directorial feature film debut in Pimp (2010), which he wrote and in which he also starred.[1]
He established a film production company called R&R Films (later R&R Film) along with Royd Tolkien in 2010,[1] which was operational until c.2016.[a]
He produced and directed the documentaries There's A Hole In My Bucket and The Big Hope.[when?][citation needed]
Acting
Film and television
He played Adam Carnegie in the ITV1 drama series The Royal for three series and played Tommy Grant in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders. He starred in the 1998 ITV version of Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff. He played Ian in Emmerdale and guest starred on the second series of Outlander shot in 2015.[3]
His film acting credits include Soccer Mom, Birthday, Fall of the Essex Boys, AB Negative, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and Sahara.[3]
Theatre
He appeared at the Royal National Theatre in 2010/11 in the Ena Lamont Stewart play Men Should Weep in the role of John Morrison alongside Sharon Small. He played the title role in MacBeth at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, directed by David Thacker (February 2012).[citation needed]
In 2015–16, Cavanah played John Churchill in the RSC's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne and Scandal in the RSC production of Love for Love.[4]
In 2019 he appeared at the Park Theatre[where?] in the Meghan Kenedy play Napoli, Brooklyn in the role of Nic Muscolino.
Filmography
- Queen Marie of Romania (2019) as Robert Cavanah
- Hanuman (1998) as Tom
Starring roles include Cracker, Blue Dove, Cadfael, Hamish MacBeth, Kavanagh QC, Rose and Maloney, Rebus, Silent Witness, Highlander: The Raven, Casualty, DCI Banks, Waterloo Road, The Bill, The Governor, The Borgias, Shetland, Hatfields & McCoys and as Robert Stevenson in the BBC television drama-documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World which chronicled the design and construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.[3]
Footnotes
References
- ^ a b Cavanah, Robert (19 May 2010). "Interview: Robert Cavanah, actor". The Scotsman (Interview). Retrieved 21 April 2022.
Cavanah says he and his fellow producer Royd Tolkien – the great grandson of JRR Tolkien – have now established R&R Films and already have another movie ready to shoot.
- ^ "People". R & R Film. 2016. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Robert Cavanah at IMDb
- ^ RSC official website Archived 2 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, rsc.org.uk; accessed 8 February 2016.
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