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Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. was born on November 5, 1958 in Marietta, Georgia, and raised in Columbus, Ohio, the eldest of five children. He attended the Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but dropped out after he took a drama course and became interested in acting. After leaving college, he took a job as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in Lake Erie in 1984. He swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, while he nearly drowned in his attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California. He worked in a bar to supplement his income and even lived in his own car. Patrick starred in various direct-to-video television movies, and had a short appearance in _Die Hard 2 . In addition to his acting success, Patrick is a lifelong supporter of the military and the USO. The grandson of an Army veteran who served during World Wars I and II and the Korean War, Patrick grew up with a profound respect for troops. Devoted to giving back, he regularly goes on USO hospital visits and has participated in four USO tours in seven countries since 2008, visiting more than 8,100 service members and military families. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Barbara and their two children.
Has reprised his Terminator 2: Judgment Day character, the T-1000, for the theme park attraction T2 3-D: Battle Across Time , a short film filmed in a new 3-D process that makes the film really appear to jump out at you.
Has appeared in Meat Loaf s music video "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are".
Attended and graduated from Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan.
Attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio; majored in accounting.
Has played the same character (T-1000) in three movies: Terminator 2: Judgment Day , Waynes World and Last Action Hero .
Has four siblings: Richard Patrick , Cheri Patrick, Karen Patrick and Lewis Patrick.
Has two children with his wife Barbara Patrick : daughter Austin and son Samuel.
Has the distinction of being the only actor killed on screen by all three of the Planet Hollywood founders: Bruce Willis (in Die Hard 2 ), Sylvester Stallone (in Cop Land ), and most famously by Arnold Schwarzenegger (in Terminator 2: Judgment Day ).
The appearance of character Dale Gribble from the animated series "King of the Hill" is based on Patrick.
Has played the fathers of both Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash : Vernon Presley in "Elvis" and Ray Cash in Walk the Line .
In the mid to late 1980s, he lived in the same Los Angeles complex with such neighbors such as Jim Carrey ( Bruce Almighty ), Ernie Hudson ( Ghostbusters ) and Cynthia Ettinger ( "Deadwood" , The Silence of the Lambs ).
His first ten years in the film business consisted mostly of small parts in "B" pictures; he made so little money from acting that he had to take a job as a bartender to supplement his income.
Enjoys riding motorcycles.
Immediately after being cast in Terminator 2: Judgment Day , he took a martial-arts crash course, then began exhaustive strength, endurance, and weapons-training sessions. "For three months," he says, "all I did was sleep, eat, take vitamins, and train.".
Robert Patrick and Kristanna Loken both played ruthless terminators in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (respectively) and would later co-star in S.W.A.T.: Firefight .
He was awarded the 2001 Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television as FBI Special Agent John Doggett on "The X Files" .
Brother-in-law of Tina Johnson.
Has English and Scots-Irish ancestry.
Currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
He is left-handed.
Author of over sixty published plays, including "Kennedys Children" and "T-Shirts", and a novel about the origins of underground and gay playwrighting, "Temple Slave".
Only openly gay person ever awarded the International Thespian Societys Founders Award for "services to theatre and to youth."
Only playwright to have two weekends designated in his honor by Manhattan Borough Presidents (for his pioneering play about gay teenagers, "Blue Is For Boys" in 1983 and 1986).
Received the Robert Chesley Lifetime Award for Gay Playwrighting
Had over 300 productions in Manhattans Off-Off Broadway theatres in the 1960s. Was called by play publisher Samuel French Inc. "New Yorks most produced playwright".
His "The Trial of Socrates" was the first gay play presented by the City of New York.
Had to perform in his first play "The Haunted Host" with fellow dramatist William M. Hoffman (author of As Is), because no actors could be found willing to be in a gay-themed play.
Gave playwright/director/former drag-artist Harvey Fierstein his first male role in "The Haunted Host" in Boston, 1976.
Often receives fan mail and stalker-calls meant for actor Robert Patrick , especially from fans of Terminator 2: Judgment Day .
Is an unbilled extra in Compass Rose and The Fluffer .
Frequent uncredited television script ghostwriter.
Got cast in Tricks of the Trade and Compass Rose only because director Andy Milligan shot them in the Caffe Cino, where Patrick worked. Patrick had been left on duty to make sure the film company did no harm, and was cast in small roles by default.
Maintains 58 pages of photos of the Caffe Cino, the first Off-Off Broadway theatre.
Only person to be the subject of three "Coffeehouse Chronicles," i.e.,appearances by underground theatre pioneers videotaped by La Mama Archives for posterity. His first was on videotape, concerning his entire career, combined with a performance of the first play he produced at La Mama. The second was live, the only two-hour Coffeehouse Chronicle, about negative experiences working in underground theatre in the U.S. and abroad. The third was a showing of his DVD "Caffe Cino: Birthplace of Gay Theatre," with a live panel of underground pioneers.
All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe.
Acting HAD to work out. I never gave myself another option. I had no,choice.
I think 90% of acting is makeup and wardrobe. The other 10% is what I do,here in my office, bouncing off the walls.
I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance,and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the,killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a,target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their,intended target.
[The T-1000] is what broke me out big to the world, and I kind of carry,it with me everywhere I go, for good or bad.
