Robert Englund

I genuinely think Robert Englund is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood history — not because he's obscure, but because the sheer craft behind Freddy Krueger gets buried under the franchise's pop-culture enormity. The man spent the better part of a decade under pounds of latex and still managed to make Freddy feel witty, menacing, and weirdly charismatic all at once. What blows my mind is that he trained as a serious stage actor at UCLA and at Oakland University's Meadow Brook Theatre, and could have gone a dozen other directions — yet he leaned fully into horror and elevated it. His Saturn Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are well-earned, but honestly the real trophy is that Freddy's glove is one of the most instantly recognizable images in cinema. That's the mark of a performer who owned a role completely.

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Name (English)

Robert Englund

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・イングランド

Reading

ろばーと・いんぐらんど

Born

June 6, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Glendale, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / film actor / television actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

High school

Granada Hills Charter High School

University

California State University, Northridge

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Time Machine Award

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.robertenglund.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/robertbenglund/
• Xhttps://x.com/robertbenglund
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Englund
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310389

Tags

• California
• actor
• film director
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.