- Born
- Birth nameRobert Barton Englund
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Jeff Bridges. Since 1984 he's achieved international fame as the iconic boogeyman Freddy Krueger in the hit franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street and its seven sequels. Englund has guest starred in hundreds of hours of TV most recently Bones, Criminal Minds and Hawaii 5-0. He will soon be seen starring in the horror film Fear Clinic, and the English thriller The Last Showing, he can be heard as the voice of the Evil Beaver in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show.
- IMDb mini biography by: Robert Englund
- SpousesNancy Booth(October 1, 1988 - present)Elizabeth Gardner(September 15, 1968 - March 1973) (divorced)
- ParentsJohn Kent EnglundJanis (MacDonald) Englund
- Often plays elderly or ancient characters
- Frequent roles in horror-style media
- Distinctive high-pitched raspy voice
- He's a keen surfer, and has been shown on Entertainment Tonight (1981) talking about surfing.
- His father Clyde Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer, helped design the Lockheed U-2 spy plane.
- His performance as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is ranked #51 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- Ranked the #40 top villain for the American Film Institution's Top 100 list of 100 Heroes and Villains for his role as Freddy Krueger.
- Is an avid fan of the animated sitcom King of the Hill (1997).
- When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw The Bad Seed (1956) instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.
- I saw an entire magazine of Freddy Krueger tattoos. Hey, I'm a classically trained actor who was doing [Anton Chekhov], and now there are thousands of people walking around America with my tattoo on them. I just take it as pop culture.
- I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
- Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
- But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003) - $1,000,000
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