Robert Cavanah


Robert Cavanah is a Scottish actor, writer, director and producer.

Biography

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 later graduated from a three-year acting course at Drama Centre London in 1994, part of the University of the Arts London. He lives in England.

Career

Cavanah wrote, produced and directed the following short films: Soldier's Leap, Fish, and Trumps. He made his directorial feature debut in Pimp which he wrote and in which he also starred.
As of 2019 he produced and directed the documentaries There's A Hole In My Bucket and The Big Hope.
Starring roles include Cracker, Blue Dove, Cadfael, Hamish MacBeth, Kavanagh QC, Rose and Maloney, Rebus, Silent Witness, ', Casualty, DCI Banks, Waterloo Road, The Bill, The Governor, The Borgias, 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.
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.
His film acting credits include Soccer Mom, Birthday, Fall of the Essex Boys, AB Negative, ', and Sahara.
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. 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.
In 2019 he appeared at the Park theatre in the Meghan Kenedy play Napoli, Brooklyn in the role of Nic Muscolino.

Filmography