Robin Lord Taylor

Robin Lord Taylor

Taylor at the 2014 NY PaleyFest for Gotham
Born Robin Lord Taylor
June 4, 1978 (age 36)[1]
Shueyville, Iowa, U.S.
Other names
  • Robin Taylor
  • Robin L. Taylor
Occupation
Years active 2005–present
Known for
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[3]

Robin Lord Taylor (born June 4, 1978)[1] is an American film and television actor and director, known for Accepted (2006), Another Earth (2011) and Would You Rather (2012). He stars in the television drama series Gotham as Oswald Cobblepot.

Personal life

A native of Shueyville, Iowa, Taylor attended Solon High School and Northwestern University. Since 2000, he has lived in New York, where Gotham is filmed.[4]

In a November 2014 Glamour Magazine interview, Taylor was asked, "I notice you are wearing a wedding ring on your ring finger. Are you married?" Without revealing his spouse's gender, he responded, "I am married! I like to keep it private, but I've been married for over three years, and we've been together for 10 1/2. No kids. No kids yet!"[5]

In a March 2015, Slate Magazine noted Taylor as "openly gay" in an article discussing the typecasting of gay actors. Taylor, himself, added: "I feel like the landscape has totally changed. Regardless of sexual preference, it’s more that as a character actor, the less I reveal about myself, the better. My favorite actors are the ones I know least about." [6]

Acting career

Taylor has appeared in several acclaimed television series, such as The Walking Dead, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife and Person of Interest. He had a recurring role as "Darrell, the Late Show page with the fake British accent" on Late Show with David Letterman. He played Abernathy Darwin Dunlap in Accepted. He appeared in such independent films as Would You Rather, Cold Comes the Night, and Another Earth; the last of which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.[3]

Taylor was featured in Spike Lee's segment "Jesus Children of America" of the 2005 anthology film on the theme of childhood and exploitation All the Invisible Children (Venice Film Festival), The House is Burning (produced by Wim Wenders (Cannes Film Festival), Pitch (Cannes Film Festival), Kevin Connolly's The Gardener of Eden (Tribeca Film Festival) and Assassination of a High School President (Sundance Film Festival).[3]

Taylor co-created and co-starred in Creation Nation: A Live Talk Show with Billy Eichner, which they performed at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and throughout New York City and Los Angeles. He has also appeared onstage in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, The Shooting Stage,[7] Henry IV and No. 11 Blue and White, as well as numerous productions in Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater.

Taylor's performance as Cobblepot has been described by Esquire as a "standout performance of the first episode [...] disarming and multilayered",[8] by The Wall Street Journal as "a passionate performance ... [who] "steals the show",[9] and as "spectacularly cast as the Penguin".[10]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2005 Jesus Children of America Mike
  • Short film
  • as Robin Taylor
2006 Pitch Pete
  • Short film
  • as Robin Taylor
2006 The House is Burning Phil as Robin Taylor
2006 Accepted Abernathy Darwin Dunlap
2008 Assassination of a High School President Alex Schneider as Robin Taylor
2008 August Guy Employee
2009 Last Day of Summer Jason as Robin Taylor
2010 Step Up 3D Punk Kid
2011 Return Vonnie as Robin Taylor
2011 Another Earth Jeff Williams
2011 The Melancholy Fantastic Dukken as Robin Taylor
2012 Would You Rather Julian
2013 Cold Comes the Night Quincy
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2005 Law & Order Jared Weston
  • Episode: "Sects"
  • as Robin L. Taylor
2008 Life on Mars Jimmy Episode: "My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi"
2008 Law & Order Dale
  • Episode: "Personae Non Grata"
  • as Robin L. Taylor
2010 Law & Order Cedric Stuber Episode: "Innocence"
2012 Person of Interest Ajax Episode: "Blue Code"
2012 The Good Wife Brock Dalyndro Episode: "Battle of the Proxies"
2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dylan Fuller Episode: "Traumatic Wound"
2013–14 The Walking Dead Sam
2014 Taxi Brooklyn Sami Episode: "Precious Cargo"
2014–present Gotham Oswald Cobblepot Series regular

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aged 36 as of interview dated February 16, 2015., usatoday.com; accessed February 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Robin Lord Taylor". Facebook. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Robin Lord Taylor Bio". IMDb.com. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Robin Lord Taylor profile". Hooplanow. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ "What It's Like to Spend the Afternoon With Robin Lord Taylor A.K.A. Gotham's Penguin". Glamour Magazine. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  6. ↑ "The "Straight Coach" in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Isn’t So Far-Fetched". Slate Magazine. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Rising Stars: Hunter Gilmore, Noah Peters, and Robin Lord Taylor shine in The Shooting Stage". theatermania.com. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Talking to the new Penguin: Gotham's Robin Lord Taylor on how to inhabit he vile villain". esquire.com. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Meet Robin Lord Taylor, the ‘Gotham’ Penguin". blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ Gotham takes chance on origins story "Gotham Takes Chance on Origins Story". stuff.co.nz. Retrieved September 29, 2014.

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