Photo: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Robert Patrick earned a permanent place in film history with one nearly wordless performance: the T-1000's blank, gliding menace still unsettles me more than most modern computer-generated villains. But what I respect is everything he did afterward. Rather than chasing that lightning, he became one of America's most reliable character actors — villains, soldiers, authority figures — adding voice work and producing along the way. A Saturn Award winner who never seems to coast, he embodies the working-actor ethic I value most: show up, elevate the material, and let the stars take the posters. Cinema runs on people like Robert Patrick.
Overview
Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and authority figures, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations. After playing a supporting role in Die Hard 2 (1990), he came to prominence as the T-1000, the antagonist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Robert Patrick
- Name (Japanese)
- ロバート・パトリック
- Reading
- ろばーと・ぱとりっく
- Born
- November 5, 1958 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Dog
- Origin
- Marietta, Georgia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / voice actor / television actor / film producer / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Bay High School
- University
- Bowling Green State University
Awards & achievements
- Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.