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Originally from Portlaoise, Robert has been acting since childhood, making his debut appearance in Aisling Walsh’s acclaimed feature film Song For A Raggy Boy. As a teenager he went on to appear in a number of feature films including A Dublin Story, Ghostwood, An Creatur and Summer of the Flying Saucers. On television Robert appeared in all 24 episodes of Foreign Exchange (Magma Film/9 Newtwork Australia) as Cormac MacNamara and in all 13 episodes of Young Blades (Insight/PAX TV) as Prince Louis, he also appeared in The Clinic (Parallel Films/RTE), Bel’s Boys (ITV) and in Season 2 of The Tudors (Showtime/BBC). Robert appeared as series regular Addison Teller in Rock Rivals produced by Shed Productions for ITV. Robert also appeared as Liam in Bittersweet a two part comedy drama directed by Declan Eames for RTE which aired in early 2008.

Robert appeared in the recurring role of BJ in Red Riding, a trilogy of films based on the novels of the same name by David Peace – Nineteen Seventy-Four directed by Julian Jarrold, Nineteen Eighty directed by James March and Nineteen Eighty Three directed by Anand Tucker all for Revolution Films/Channel Four. Robert appeared all three films alongside actors such as Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Peter Mullan which aired on Channel 4 in March 2009 to huge critical and popular acclaim and was nominated for several BAFTA Awards in 2010.

In 2009 Robert filmed the leading role of Kay opposite Nicolas Cage and Ron Pearlman in The Season of the Witch directed by Dominic Sena and Peter Goddard for Atlas Entertainment/Relativity Media which went on general release in early 2011.

Robert appeared in leading role of Luke opposite Rupert Grint, Kimberly Nixon and James Nesbitt in the feature film Cherrybomb directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn for Generator Entertainment/Little Film Company which premiered to considerable acclaim at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and appeared at the Dublin and Belfast Film festivals and went general release in early 2010.

Robert appeared in the leading role of Nathan in Misfits, the hit comedy drama produced by Clerkenwell Films for E4 which broadcast to rave reviews and record audience figures on E4 in late 2009 culminating in the series being awarded the 2010 BAFTA for Best Drama in June which Robert had the honour of accepting at the 2010 awards. He recently appeared in the leading role of Darren in Love Hate a new TV drama mini-series featuring Aidan Gillen, written by Stuart Carolan, directed by David Caffrey for Octagon Films which aired on RTE to much acclaim in October 2010 and for which he was nominated for a Best Actor (TV) IFTA in 2011. Robert played the co-lead (Ivan) opposite Ben Barnes in a new feature film Killing Bono directed by Nick Hamm iwhich went on general release in early 2011. He appeared in season two of Misfits (E4) which aired on Channel 4 and for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor in 2011. Robert recently made his professional stage debut at the Old Vic Theatre, London in the title role of The Playboy of the Western World, directed by John Crowley with Ruth Negga and Niamh Cusack. He recently appeared in season two of Love Hate produced by Octagon Films for RTE and as Spiller in The Borrowers with Christopher Eccleston, Victoria Wood and Stephen Fry produced by Working Title Television for the BBC. He will soon feature as a guest lead in the second series of Accused created by Jimmy McGovern for the BBC and starring Anne-Marie Duff and John Bishop. Robert is currently shooting Season 3 of Love Hate in Dublin.