Biography

Keith Robinson was born in Kentucky and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He later moved to Augusta and graduated from Lakeside High School. He attended the University of Georgia and, while there, signed a recording contract with Motown Records, but that label never issued any of his material.

Robinson moved to Los Angeles and earned a starring role as Joel Rawlings, the Green Ranger in the TV series Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue. Robinson appeared in other series including ER (1994), American Dreams (2002), Monk (2002), Half & Half (2002), and Over There (2005).

Robinson's role as C.C. White in Dreamgirls (2006), which includes a Robinson-led version of the song "Family," appears to have been a breakout. He was subsequently cast in Comanche Moon (2008) now in post-production, in This Christmas (2007) now filming, The Apostles (2008) in pre-production and Caught on Tape (2011) now in production.
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He and his Dreamgirls (2006) cast mate Danny Glover have both played the character Joshua Deets. Glover in Lonesome Dove (1989), and Robinson in Comanche Moon (2008).

[on performing 'Sing my song' with his estranged sister in 'Dreamgirls'] I love the intimate moments in acting. You get a chance to communicate and everything is about you and the other person. [It] really spoke to me just about staying together and us reuniting. One of the cameramen told me a few days afterwards..that he hadn't spoken to his brother in six years and when he watched us shoot that scene the whole day he called his brother and they reconciled. For me that makes my art, my craft, really mean something and I think that, at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

[on working with Jamie Foxx in "Dreamgirls"] The biggest thing I learned from him is, in the midst of the chaos that goes along with stardom, it's just to remain true to yourself. He was always very charismatic and open to share his journey with me on and off the camera. It seems like he's always been like that..[The] same positive energy that he has about just being an artist he probably had from day one..and that spoke the loudest to me.