Robert Cavanah | |
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Born | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Occupation | Actor, director, writer, producer |
Years active | 1993–present |
Children | 2 |
Website | Official website |
Robert Cavanah is a Scottish actor, writer, director, and producer.
Born in Edinburgh, Cavanah lives in England, the father of two. He attended James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh. Left the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1986, after just one term, but later graduated from a three-year acting course at Drama Centre London in 1994, part of the University of the Arts London.
Cavanah wrote, produced and directed the following short films: Soldier's Leap (1999), Fish (2001), and Trumps (2001). He made his directorial feature debut in Pimp which he wrote and in which he also starred. He wrote the feature films Invisible and Wreckage. As of 2015, working on a first novel and stage play.
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 and Hatfields and McCoys. 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.