Robin Lord Taylor
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Taylor at the 2014 NY PaleyFest for Gotham
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Born | Robin Lord Taylor June 4, 1978 [1] Shueyville, Iowa, U.S. |
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Years active | 2005–present |
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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.
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Early life
Born in Shueyville, Iowa to Robert Harmon Taylor[4] and Mary Susan (née Stamy) Taylor, Robin has four sisters. He attended Solon High School and Northwestern University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in theatre.
Career
Taylor has appeared in several 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,[5] 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.[6]
Gotham
Taylor was cast as Oswald Cobblepot in February 2014.[7][8] His performance as Cobblepot has been described by Esquire as a "standout performance of the first episode [...] disarming and multilayered",[9] by The Wall Street Journal as "a passionate performance ... [who] "steals the show",[10] and as "spectacularly cast as the Penguin".[11]
Personal life
Taylor was raised Presbyterian.[12] Since 2000, he has lived in New York, where Gotham is filmed.[13] In a November 2014 Glamour interview, Taylor was asked, "I notice you are wearing a wedding ring on your ring finger. Are you married?" To which 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 <templatestyles src="Sfrac/styles.css" />10+1/2. No kids. No kids yet!"[14] In a March 2015, Slate 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." [15]
Filmography
Film
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2005 | Jesus Children of America | Mike | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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2006 | Pitch | Pete | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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The House is Burning | Phil | credited as Robin Taylor | |
Accepted | Abernathy Darwin Dunlap | ||
2008 | Assassination of a High School President | Alex Schneider | credited as Robin Taylor |
August | Guy Employee | ||
2009 | Last Day of Summer | Jason | credited as Robin Taylor |
2010 | Step Up 3D | Punk Kid | |
2011 | Return | Vonnie | credited as Robin Taylor |
Another Earth | Jeff Williams | ||
The Melancholy Fantastic | Dukken | credited as Robin Taylor | |
2012 | Would You Rather | Julian | |
2013 | Cold Comes the Night | Quincy | |
2016 | Full Dress | Noah | |
2017 | The Long Home | Filming |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005 | Law & Order | Jared Weston | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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2008 | Life on Mars | Jimmy | Episode: "My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi" (S 1:Ep 8) |
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2010 | Law & Order | Cedric Stuber | Episode: "Innocence" (S 20:Ep 16) |
2012 | Person of Interest | Ajax | Episode: "Blue Code" (S 1:Ep 15) |
The Good Wife | Brock Dalyndro | Episode: "Battle of the Proxies" (S 4:Ep 10) | |
2013 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Dylan Fuller | Episode: "Traumatic Wound" (S 14:Ep 21) |
The Walking Dead | Sam | Episode: "Indifference" (S 4:Ep 4) | |
2014 | The Walking Dead | Sam | Episode: "No Sanctuary" (S 5:Ep 1) |
Taxi Brooklyn | Sami | Episode: "Precious Cargo" (S 1:Ep4) | |
2014–present | Gotham | Oswald Cobblepot | Series regular |
References
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External links
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- Robin Lord Taylor Twitter profile
Preceded by | Penguin Actor 2014–present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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- Living people
- Male actors from Iowa
- Northwestern University alumni
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- 21st-century American male actors