Robert made his acting debut in Aisling Walsh’s acclaimed film feature Song For A Raggy Boy.

Since then screen work includes Season of the Witch (Atlas), Cherrybomb (Generator), Killing Bono (Generator/Cinema Three), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Constantin), The Road Within (Amasia), The Song of Sway Lake (Grack), Anita B (Jean Vigo Italia), The Messenger (Gateway), Moonwalkers (Partizan), Jet Trash (Aimimage), Geostorm (Warner/Netflix), Bad Samaritan (Electric), Three Summers (TSF), Mute (Liberty), Mortal Engines (MRC/Universal), the BAFTA winning Red Riding trilogy (Revolution/Channel 4), multi-IFTA winning Love/Hate (RTE/Octagon), BAFTA winning Misfits (Clerkenwell/E4), for which he was also BAFTA nominated, The Borrowers (Working Title/BBC), Accused (BBC), Fortitude (Fifty Fathoms/Sky), Genius: Picasso (National Geo/Disney), The Last Bus (Netflix), The Umbrella Academy (Universal/Netflix) and the upcoming Red Sonja (Millennium Films).

Robert’s theatre work includes Withnail & I at Birmingham Rep, The Playboy of the Western World directed by John Crowley for the Old Vic, Richard III in The Wars of the Roses directed by Trevor Nunn for the Rose Theatre and Endgame directed by Danya Taymor for the Gate Theatre Dublin.

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