Chris Robson

Chris Robson (born 2 September 1971) is an English stage, television and film actor. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.

His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.

Personal life

Robson spent his early life in Whitley Bay. His father was a policeman and his mother a nurse. He attended Marine Park First School, Marden Bridge Middle School and Whitley Bay High School, and was a member of the local acting group, the People’s Theatre Group in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Chris spent 4 years at St John’s College, Cambridge, studying French and German. During his year abroad he studied German theatre at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Following Cambridge he completed a postgraduate course in drama at the Oxford School of Drama in Oxford before moving to London.

Career

At Cambridge he acted with the Marlowe Society, appearing in Peer Gynt, Tamburlaine and The Lady of Pleasure. He is probably best known for his Geordie character Joe Kirkley in British cult action-horror Dog Soldiers. He has also acted in the films Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, playing a German-speaking porter, and as a hard-hitting soldier, Stevie Millar, in the film Doomsday.

Chris has also had several prominent television roles, namely playing a cowardly German in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, being Wernher von Braun’s right-hand man, Dieter Huzel, in Space Race, and playing Matt Perry, a dad of 3 unruly girls, in Tracey Beaker Returns.

Additional television work includes The Ghost Squad, Doctors, The Real Albert Goering and Looking Good.

His stage work is varied and includes the role of Meslis in Neil Bartlett’s production of The Dispute, this Royal Shakespeare Company show won a Time out Award for Best production in the West End and the 1999 TMA Best Touring Production award. Chris has also played Adonis in the 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo at the Lyric Hammersmith, a Geordie in Lost and Found at the Hackney Empire and taken the lead of John O’Brien in a national tour of Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen Streets.

Further theatre credits are playing Dickens in a joint Cardboard Citizens and Artangel project, which Chris also directed, playing a Welsh stowaway in Measuring Wings at the Etcetera, Orlando in As You Like It, Viola in Twelfth Night, Ross in Macbeth, Hans Rilow in Spring Awakenings and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.

He taught French and German part-time at Sutton Grammar School until 24 May 2013, when he left to teach French, Drama and German at Orleans Park School. However, Robson returned to Sutton Grammar School and is currently working permanently teaching French and German.

External links

• Chris Robson on IMDb