Robert Patrick

Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations.

Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. After playing a supporting role in Die Hard 2 (1990), Patrick starred as the T-1000, the main antagonist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – a role he reprised for cameo appearances in Wayne's World (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993). Other notable film credits include Fire in the Sky (1993), Striptease (1996), Cop Land (1997), The Faculty (1998), Spy Kids (2001), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Walk the Line (2005), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), We Are Marshall (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) and Safe House (2012).

In television, Patrick is known for his portrayals of FBI Special Agent John Doggett in The X-Files and Colonel Tom Ryan in The Unit, and has played ongoing roles in series such as The Outer Limits, The Sopranos, Elvis, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Burn Notice, Last Resort, Sons of Anarchy and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series. He currently stars in the CBS drama series Scorpion as Agent Cabe Gallo.

Robert Patrick (disambiguation)

Robert Patrick is an actor.

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Robert Patrick (playwright)

Robert Patrick (born September 27, 1937) is an American playwright, poet, lyricist, short-story writer and novelist. He was born Robert Patrick O'Connor in Kilgore, Texas, United States.

Personal life

Robert Patrick was born to migrant workers in Texas. Because his parents moved around the Southwestern United States constantly, looking for work, he never went to one school for an entire year until his senior year of high school in Roswell, New Mexico. The only cultural constants in his life were books, film and radio. His mother made sure he learned to read, and arranged that he start school a year early. Lacking social contacts due to constant displacement, he always made poor grades, and dropped out of college after two years. Having experienced no live theatre except a few school shows, he fell in love with stage work while washing dishes at the Kennebunkport Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine one summer. Stopping off in New York on his way back to Roswell, he stumbled into the Caffe Cino, the first underground or Off-Off Broadway theatre, on September 14, 1961. He remained there working for free in any required capacity, supporting himself with temporary typing jobs while observing and participating in the production of dozens of plays, including So Long at the Fair by Lanford Wilson. Having long been a poet, in 1964 he got an idea for a play he called The Haunted Host, and because of the casualness of the Caffe Cino, was allowed to mount it almost at once. It was something of a success, and playwriting became his main focus.