Robert Gwyn Davin

Born and bred in beautiful North Wales, Welsh (Cymraeg) is Robert's native language. Became hooked on TV as a child, watching old black and white movies, including Laurel and Hardy (a life long fan), and iconic shows from the '60's and '70's, like The Man From Uncle, Batman, Lost In Space, Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, The Magician, The Saint, and The Persuaders.Moving to London in 1986, Robert worked backstage in West End shows; A Month of Sundays with George Cole, of Minder fame, and Charlie Girl, with Paul Nicholas, and (brought over to lend a touch of Hollywood glamour) Cyd Charisse. Worked as Assistant Stage Manager at the Royal Albert Hall during, and after, the Proms of 1986, before starting his formal training as an actor at LAMDA in that same year, (and during the summer holiday of '87 worked backstage on Me And My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre). He graduated with distinction from LAMDA in 1989. He co-founded a theatre company with other LAMDA graduates, called Threshold (later Arts Threshold). Robert's first audition after graduating from drama college gained him his Equity card (in the days when you needed one to work as an actor in the UK) in repertory at the Derby Playhouse. Returning to London, he worked on the original production of Miss Saigon with Jonathan Pryce, at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1990, for seven months. Then, on the strength of Jonathan Pryce's personal advice, Robert moved to Cardiff where he worked increasingly in TV and film. In 1994 he played Matthew in the multi award winning independent film BRANWEN, before filming FIRST KNIGHT for four months with Richard Gere and Sean Connery. Worked with Gere again, but only briefly, in THE JACKAL in '97 playing a CIA agent. Back home he played a regular character on the long running Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm for two years, leaving in the early 2000's. Rode an Arabian stallion in 2002, filming a commercial, when, battling to stay on the bucking and rearing horse during high winds and heavy rain, the crew were taking bets behind the camera when Robert would be thrown off by the highly strung (and increasingly irate) black stallion, how badly his injuries would be, and who would have to call the ambulance. To their disappointment, and too his great relief, the days filming was completed unharmed, and he was not thrown off even once, nor injured by the angry and bucking horse. Also known for throwing one of the main characters' in BBC1's CASUALTY off the roof of a multi story car park in 2004. And lived to tell the tale. Has lived in London off and on for many years, briefly in Toronto, Canada, and of course Wales (both South and North). Took a few years out in 2014 for family reasons.::me