Robert Patrick
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-11-05 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Marietta, Georgia, USA
Robert Patrick
Biography
Robert Hammond Patrick was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, raised there and Boston, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. The eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and became interested in acting. After leaving college, he took a job as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in Lake Erie in 1984. He swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, while he nearly drowned in his attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. He worked in a bar to supplement his income and even lived in his own car.
Patrick starred in various direct-to-video television movies, and had a short appearance in Die Hard 2 (1990). His breakthrough role came as the liquid-metal, shape-shifting T-1000 in James Cameron's blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After that, he landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993) and Striptease (1996). His performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of Chris Carter, creator of the television series The X-Files (1993). After David Duchovny distanced himself from the series during its seventh season, Patrick was cast as FBI Special Agent John Doggett.
On the small screen, Robert was a series regular on Season Six of HBO's True Blood (2008) and also appeared in the final season. He had a memorable role in the final season of Sons of Anarchy (2008), did a cameo role on the sitcom Community (2009), and had a supporting role in Season One on Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) for the El Rey Network. In Spring 2017, it was announced that Robert would have a featured role in Gale Anne Hurd's highly anticipated Amazon series Lore (2017), based on the popular horror podcast. Recent film credits include Universal Pictures' Identity Thief (2013) with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, Warner Brothers' Gangster Squad (2013) in which he played Josh Brolin's squad member going up against Sean Penn as Mickey Cohan, Trouble with the Curve (2012) opposite Clint Eastwood, Lovelace (2013) opposite Sharon Stone and Amanda Seyfried, Universal's remake of Endless Love (2014) with Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde, Focus Features' Kill the Messenger (2014) opposite Jeremy Renner, and The Road Within (2014) with Kyra Sedgwick and Zoë Kravitz.
In addition to his acting success, Patrick is a lifelong supporter of the military and the USO. The grandson of an Army veteran who served during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, Patrick grew up with a profound respect for troops. Devoted to giving back, he regularly goes on USO hospital visits and has participated in four USO tours in seven countries since 2008, visiting more than 8,100 service members and military families. He is a passionate Harley-Davidson enthusiast and is co-owner of Harley-Davidson of Santa Clarita. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Barbara and their two children.
Known For
Acting
Hot Bath an' a Stiff Drink 2
as Dallas Cambridge
(2025)
Mermaid
as Ron Bocca
(2025)
FEEL
as Sitter 13
(2024)
Hounds of War
as Colonel Hart
(2024)
Good Men
as Self
(2024)
Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2024)
(2023)
Dark Asset
as Dr. Cain
(2023)
Shelter in Solitude
as Dwayne
(2021)
The Protégé
as Billy Boy
(2021)
No Man of God
as Roger Depue
(2021)
What Josiah Saw
as Josiah Graham
(2021)
Rushed
as Jim O'Brien
(2020)
Honest Thief
as Samuel Baker
(2020)
(2019)
The Poison Rose
as Chief Walsh
(2019)
The Laundromat
as Captain Paris
(2019)
The Rising Hawk
as Zakhar Berkut
(2019)
Jarhead: Law of Return
as Senator Jackson
(2019)
Back Roads
as Chief Mansour
(2019)
Tone-Deaf
as Harvey
(2019)
SGT. Will Gardner
as Tony
(2018)
Edge of Fear
as Jack Pryor
(2017)
Last Rampage
as Gary Tison
(2017)
(2016)
Eloise
as Doctor H.H. Greiss
(2016)
Street Level
as Giuseppe
(2016)
21 Days Under the Sky
as Narrator
(2015)
Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert
as Self - Presenter
(2015)
Hollywood Adventures
as Studio Guard #1
(2015)
Hellions
as Corman
(2014)
Ask Me Anything
as Doug Kampenfelt
(2014)
Endless Love
as Harry Elliot
(2014)
Kill the Messenger
as Ronny Quail
(2014)
The Road Within
as Robert
(2014)
Tell
as Ashton
(2014)
Lost After Dark
as Mr. C.
(2014)
(2013)
Gangster Squad
as Max Kennard
(2013)
Lovelace
as John J. Boreman
(2013)
Identity Thief
as Skiptracer
(2013)
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jimbo Caldwell
(2013)
Troubled Waters
as Sterling French
(2012)
Trouble with the Curve
as Vince
(2012)
Safe House
as Daniel Kiefe
(2011)
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
as Walter Hatch
(2011)
Red Faction: Origins
as Alec
(2011)
Mafia
as Detective Jules Dupree
(2011)
Good Day for It
as Luke Cain
(2011)
D-Minus
as Chris
(2010)
(2010)
Five Minarets in New York
as Becker
(2010)
(2010)
Edgar Floats
as Nicholas Breakey
(2010)
The Wrath of Cain
as Warden Dean
(2009)
The Men Who Stare at Goats
as Todd Nixon
(2009)
(2009)
Lonely Street
as Mr. Aaron
(2009)
Alien Trespass
as Vernon
(2008)
Fly Me to the Moon
as Louie (voice)
(2008)
Autopsy
as Dr. David Benway
(2008)
Strange Wilderness
as Gus Hayden
(2008)
(2007)
Bridge to Terabithia
as Jack Aarons
(2007)
Balls of Fury
as Sgt. Pete Daytona
(2006)
Flags of Our Fathers
as Colonel Chandler Johnson
(2006)
Firewall
as Gary Mitchell
(2006)
The Marine
as Rome
(2006)
We Are Marshall
as Rick Tolley (uncredited)
(2006)
The Making of 'The Marine'
as Self
(2006)
The Broken Movie
as cop
(2005)
Walk the Line
as Ray Cash
(2005)
Supercross
as Earl Cole
(2004)
Ladder 49
as Lenny Richter
(2004)
Bad Apple
as Colonel Tom Ryanmy 'Bells' Bellavita
(2003)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
as Ray Carter
(2003)
First to Die
as Nicholas Jenks
(2002)
D-Tox
as Noah
(2002)
Ticker
as FBI Agent
(2002)
Angels Don't Sleep Here
as Det. Russell Stark
(2002)
Backflash
as Ray Bennett
(2002)
Pavement
as Sam Brown
(2001)
Spy Kids
as Mr. Lisp
(2001)
Texas Rangers
as Sgt. John Armstrong
(2000)
All the Pretty Horses
as Cole
(2000)
Mexico City
as Ambassador Mills
(2000)
(2000)
The Vivero Letter
as James Wheeler
(1999)
(1999)
(1999)
A Texas Funeral
as Zach
(1998)
The Faculty
as Coach Joe Willis
(1998)
Renegade Force
as Jake McInroy
(1998)
Perfect Assassins
as Leo Benita
(1998)
Tactical Assault
as Colonel Lee Banning
(1998)
Rag and Bone
as Sgt. Daniel Ryan
(1998)
Ambushed
as Shannon Herrold
(1997)
Cop Land
as Jack Rucker
(1997)
Rosewood
as Lover
(1997)
The Only Thrill
as Colonel Tom Ryan McHenry
(1997)
Sink Or Swim
as Goatee
(1997)
Asylum
as Nicholas Tordone
(1996)
Striptease
as Darrell Grant
(1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
as T-1000
(1995)
Last Gasp
as Leslie Chase
(1995)
Body Language
as Delbert Radley
(1995)
Decoy
as Travis
(1994)
(1994)
Zero Tolerance
as Jeff Douglas
(1994)
Hong Kong 97
as Reginald Cameron
(1994)
Body Shot
as Mickey Dane
(1994)
Double Dragon
as Kongo Shuko
(1994)
The Cool Surface
as Jarvis Scott
(1993)
Last Action Hero
as T-1000
(1993)
Fire in the Sky
as Mike Rodgers
(1993)
T2: More Than Meets the Eye
as Self
(1992)
Wayne's World
as Bad Cop / T-1000
(1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
as T-1000
(1991)
(1991)
Hollywood Boulevard II
as Cameraman
(1990)
Die Hard 2
as O'Reilly
(1988)
Equalizer 2000
as Deke
(1988)
Killer Instinct
as Johnny Ransom
(1988)
(1987)
Eye of the Eagle
as Johnny Ransom
(1986)
Future Hunters
as Slade
Crew
(2023)
Dark Asset
Executive Producer
(2021)
Rushed
Producer
(2010)
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
Executive Producer
(1996)
Within the Rock
Producer