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Full Name:Robert Englund
Birth Name:Robert Barton Englund
Famous As: actor, TV actor, director
Date of Birth: June 06, 1949
Place of Birth: Glendale, California, USA
Height: 5' 10
Nationality: American

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Robert Englund

Robert Englund, March 2005
Born Robert Barton Englund
June 6, 1947 (1947-06-06) (age 61)
Glendale, California, U.S.
Years active 1974 – present
Spouse(s) Nancy Booth (1988 – present)
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Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Despite his reputation for appearing in exploitative horror films, Englund is a classically trained actor.1

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Biography

Personal life

Englund was born in Glendale, California, the son of Janis (née McDonald) and C. Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 aircraft.23 He has Swedish ancestry.4 Englund began studying acting at the age of twelve.1 He attended California State University Northridge for three years before transferring to Michigan's Oakland University, where he trained at the Meadow Brook Theatre,2 at the time a branch of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.1 Englund has been married three times and has no children. He currently resides in Laguna Beach, California.

Career

Since his first film, Buster and Billie, in 1974, Englund has made over 100 appearances on film and television. His early film roles usually typed him as a nerd or a redneck, and he first gained attention in the role of Willie, the lovably innocent alien in the 1983 miniseries V, as well as the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series.

Englund costumed as the diabolical child-killer Freddy Krueger

After his huge success in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Englund became the first new horror movie star since Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1960s. His association with the genre led him to top-billed roles in The Phantom of the Opera (1989), The Mangler (1995), and 2001 Maniacs (2005). While no longer a headliner, today he is revered by horror fans as an elder statesman of the genre.

Englund is one of only two actors to play a horror character eight consecutive times, the other being Doug Bradley, who portrayed the Pinhead character eight times in the Hellraiser film series. Englund has said that he enjoys the role of Freddy as it gives him a break from always playing the nice guy; indeed, many people who have worked with Englund attest to his congeniality. Makeup artists responsible for the Krueger makeup have commented that Englund was so friendly and talkative that it made the lengthy makeup application slightly more challenging.

Englund's TV appearances include guest spots on the science fiction series Babylon 5, Masters of Horror, Sliders, and Knight Rider, where he played a phantom haunting a film studio. He provided the voice of magician Felix Faust in Justice League, The Riddler on The Batman and The Vulture on The Spectacular Spider-Man. On the TV witch drama Charmed (Episode: "Size Matters"), he played a demon who used the services of a lackey to lure people into a decrepit household (where he lived in the walls) and shrank them down to action figure size.

Englund performed as host of the Horror Hall of Fame awards show three times from 1989-1991.

Englund made his directorial début with the 1989 horror film 976-EVIL. His second feature, Killer Pad, was released direct-to-DVD in 2008. He is currently in pre-production to direct The Vij, about a young priest who is led by an evil genie to commit murder, and who falls in love with an old witch who is not what she seems.

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