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Robert Robertson Ross Jr.

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Robert Robertson Ross Jr.
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Robert Robertson Ross Jr. was born in Paisley, Scotland to his Glasgow born Scottish parents. By coincidence, the hospital he was born in was known as the Ross Hospital and his delivery doctor was Dr. Robertson. He lived in Ralston, a suburb of Glasgow, and his grandparents and several of his great, great as well as his great great great grandparents were also born in Scotland. Seeking better weather and employment opportunities, he and his parents emigrated from Scotland to Northern California when Robert was young, but he would continue to go back to Scotland to see his grandparents and extended Scottish family.

Robert began his acting career in Los Angeles training in theater doing shows with his theater company, West Coast Ensemble, as well as studying with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) at their Classical Shakespeare Theatre Summer intensive course. At the same time, he began getting cast in many television commercials, print ads and appeared on television shows such as Melrose Place, L.A. Law and in an episode of Columbo with Peter Falk when they brought that series back as two hour movie versions of the popular show in the movie titled Columbo Goes to College.

During this time, Robert was selected to screen test and go to the network by the Casting Director Robi Reed for the series regular role of the Scottish character, Angus, in the show Up All Night co-created by Rob Edwards and Susan and Andy Borowitz starring Patti LaBelle, Morris Chestnut and Vivica A. Fox. Although he did not land the role, it was a great opportunity to learn about network test deals and the auditioning process at that level.

Always having wanted to further his theater training education at a more formal level, Robert left Los Angels for Cambridge, Massachusetts when he was one of eight men accepted into the graduate program at the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard under the leadership of the founder of The Yale Repertoy Theatre and dean of the Yale School of Drama, Robert Brustein, who moved over to Harvard from Yale to start a similar repertory theatre company and graduate acting program there. While at A.R.T./Harvard, Robert appeared in over a dozen plays and worked with directors such as Robert Woodruff, Andrei Serban, Kate Whoriskey, Francois Rochaix and Scott Zigler and at the end of his two years there, was able to join Actors' Equity.

After graduation, Robert moved to New York City where he began working in Regional Theater performing at The Alley Theatre under the direction of Gregory Boyd, Bristol Riverside Theater, Penguin Repertory Theatre and was asked back to perform at the American Repertory Theatre by the artistic director Robert Woodruff to be in his production of Richard II starring Bill Camp, Thomas Derrah and John Douglas Thompson. It was Robert's third working experience with Woodruff who had cast him several years earlier at the A.R.T. to play the role of Manky in Bertolt Brecht's In The Jungle of Cities.

In addition to performing in Regional Theaters and Off Off Broadway while based in NYC, Robert screen tested for a contract role on As The World Turns, continued doing television commercials, appeared in a couple of episodes of Law and Order, did an episode of The Guiding Light, was in the film P.S. I Love You as Lisa Kudrow's date alongside Hilary Swank and was cast in the NBC TV movie, Homeland Security, with Scott Glenn and Tom Skerritt.

Robert most recently has been able to apply his Scottish Brogue to the Motion Capture role of Dr. Malcolm MacIntosh in the video game series Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games as well as in the new Audio Fiction Series Podcast A Better Paradise, Volume 1, from Q Code Media and Absurd Ventures as the Scottish son of The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln, playing the role of John Tyburn Smith.

In addition to acting, Robert is an avid exercise enthusiast. He enjoys long distance lap swimming, daily HIIT and Hills Peleton training classes, yoga and going to the gym while still trying to master the NY Times crossword puzzle.
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    Known for

    Ann Boehlke and Josiah Polhemus in The Scottish Tale (1998)
    The Scottish Tale
    6.6
    • Ian(as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
    • 1998
    Tony Goldwyn, Maura Tierney, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Mehcad Brooks, and Odelya Halevi in Law & Order (1990)
    Law & Order
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Brent Sullivan
    • Jerry Agnelli
    A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath (2024)
    A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath
    8.7
    Podcast Series
    • John Tyburn Smith(as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
    • 2024
    Guiding Light (1952)
    Guiding Light
    6.6
    TV Series
    • Actor(as Robert R. Ross Jr.)

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    • A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath (2024)
      A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath
      8.7
      Podcast Series
      • John Tyburn Smith (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 2024
    • Roger Clark in Red Dead Redemption II (2018)
      Red Dead Redemption II
      9.7
      Video Game
      • Malcolm MacIntosh (voice, as Robert Ross)
      • 2018
    • Tony Goldwyn, Maura Tierney, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Mehcad Brooks, and Odelya Halevi in Law & Order (1990)
      Law & Order
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Brent Sullivan
      • Jerry Agnelli
      • 1999–2006
    • Guiding Light (1952)
      Guiding Light
      6.6
      TV Series
      • (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 2004
    • Homeland Security (2004)
      Homeland Security
      4.2
      TV Movie
      • Agent (uncredited)
      • 2004
    • Ann Boehlke and Josiah Polhemus in The Scottish Tale (1998)
      The Scottish Tale
      6.6
      • Ian (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 1998
    • Melrose Place (1992)
      Melrose Place
      6.0
      TV Series
      • Ensign Adam (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 1994
    • L.A. Law (1986)
      L.A. Law
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Waiter (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 1992
    • The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990)
      The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
      7.3
      TV Series
      • (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 1990–1991
    • Columbo: Columbo Goes to College (1990)
      Columbo: Columbo Goes to College
      7.8
      TV Movie
      • Norm (as Robert R. Ross Jr.)
      • 1990

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