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CARLYLE’S BAFTA FAREWELL TO HOME

ROBERT Carlyle collected a Best Actor award

Monday November 9,2009

By Gavin Docherty

ROBERT Carlyle beat Doctor Who’s David Tennant to collect a Best Actor award last night, and vowed it would be his final showbusiness appearance in Scotland.

Glaswegian Carlyle, 48, shocked a celebrity audience as he accepted the BAFTA Scotland trophy for his role in child abuse drama, The Unloved, and announced his decision to work abroad.

He said: “I don’t think I’ll be making anything here for a long time. I haven’t gone the Billy Connolly route and if anyone suggests that I’ll say to them – bring it on.

“I’ll take it on the chin. I think I have done my bit.”

Father-of-three Carlyle said he will return to Vancouver, Canada, in March to film a second series of the hit American sci-fi show, Stargate Universe.

However, Carlyle denied he was deserting Scotland, although confirmed that he plans to quit the British film industry.
He said: “I don’t have to answer to anybody. I can be proud of what I have achieved.

“But working here was depressing me.”

The Full Monty star is furious that two independent movies he believed to be his best work have never been released.
Carlyle, who plays Dr Nicholas Rush in the US time-travel drama, now plans to direct more episodes of the show.

Other winners at the BAFTAs, hosted by GMTV’s Lorraine Kelly, at the Glasgow Science Centre, included Peter Capaldi for Best Film Actor for his role as government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker In The Loop, a movie spin-off of BBC2’s The Thick Of It.

His friend Armando Iannucci won two awards for the film as writer and director.

And Rab C Nesbitt’s return to BBC2 for a Christmas special won Best Entertainment Programme, while BBC3 drama New Town, starring Daniela Nardini, won in the Best TV Drama category.

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