Robert Cavanah
| Robert Cavanah | |
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| Born |
20 December 1965 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Actor, director, writer, producer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
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| http://www.robertcavanah.com | |
Robert Cavanah (born 20 December 1965) is a Scottish actor/writer/director/producer.
Cavanah was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He is a father of two. He lives between London and Los Angeles.
He has written, produced and directed three short films: Soldier's Leap in 1999, with Rupert Graves, Billy Boyd, Edward Hardwicke and Michael Nardone; Fish in 2001 with Jamie Sives, Frances Gray and Paul Rattray, and Trumps in 2001, with Robert Daws, Rowena Cooper and Stephen Billington. He also directed a block of three episodes of the serialised drama Doctors for BBC Birmingham, and a block of Brookside.
His directorial debut was the feature film: Pimp, which Cavanah wrote and starred in, alongside Danny Dyer, Billy Boyd, Martin Compston, Scarlet Alice Johnson, Barbara Nedeljáková, Corey Johnson and Wil Johnson was released on DVD on May 24, 2010.
Cavanah is currently developing Invisible, his second feature film as actor/writer/producer, co-starring Kaya Scodelario, to be directed by Stewart Svaasand, for a spring 2012 shoot.
Cavanah attended James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh, leaving age 18. He left the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1986, after only a term, but later graduated from Drama Centre London in 1994, completing the 3-year course, part of the University of the Arts London.
Cavanah also trained as a singer, and fronted a local country blues band in Glasgow for two years called Peach County, from 1989 to 1991.
He has taken a wide range of starring and guest roles including appearances in Cracker, Blue Dove, Cadfael, Hamish MacBeth, Kavanagh QC, Rose and Maloney, Rebus, Silent Witness, Highlander: The Raven, Casualty and The Bill and many more.
Cavanah appeared as hospital administrator Adam Carnegie in the ITV1 drama series The Royal for three series up to one year prior to its eventual cancellation in 2009.
Roles for which he is widely known are as Tommy Grant in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders, and he starred in the 1998 ITV version of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff.
Recent film credits include Tontine Massacre (Zanuck Productions/Royd Tolkien), the comedy feature Soccer Mom, and the supernatural thriller feature film Birthday. 2011 television credits include The Borgias, for Showtime, Hatfields and McCoys for the History channel, and River City for BBC Scotland.
Cavanah starred at the Royal National theatre in London in 2010/2011 in the Ena Lamont Stewart play Men Should Weep alongside Sharon Small, and can be seen in the title role of MacBeth at Octagon Theatre Bolton, directed by David Thacker, February 2012.
January 2014. Currently guest starring as Ian in ITV's Emmerdale.
External links
- Robert Cavanah at the Internet Movie Database
- Robert Cavanah's Official Web Site
- http://www.randrfilm.com (Official production company website)
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