Robert Patrick

Birthplace: Marietta, Georgia
Birthday: November 5, 1958

This lean, mean screen actor with steely blue eyes divides his time between starring in low-budget fare and turning in good character performances in high-end films. A football hopeful in college, Robert Patrick switched to acting and moved to Hollywood in 1984, where he promptly landed a role as a beatnik in the play "Go" and later returned to the stage in "The Shawl" in 1991.

For much of his early career Patrick excelled at playing villains and bad guys as in his screen debut as a psycho biker in "Warlords from Hell" (1987). He spun his whe…more

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Credits

Actor

Zero Tolerance
Jeff Douglas
Asylum
Nicholas Tordone
Tactical Assault
Colonel Lee Banning
Renegade Force
Jake McInroy
Perfect Assassins
Leo Benita

Producer

Ravager
Producer
Within the Rock
Producer

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Career Milestones

2006
Cast in Clint Eastwood's WWII drama, "Flags of Our Fathers"
2005
Cast as Col. Tom Ryan in the CBS drama series, "The Unit" created by David Mamet
2005
Once again cast opposite Joaquin Phoenix in James Mangold's "Walk the Line," the biopic of late country music legend Johnny Cash
2005
Portrayed Vernon Presley in the CBS miniseries "Elvis"
2004
Featured opposite Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta in "Ladder 49" a drama about firefighters in Baltimore