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| Robert Englund Height 5' 10" Spouse Nancy Booth (1989 - ?) 'Roxanne Rogers' (1986 - 1988) (divorced) Trivia Father designed U-2 spy plane. Attended UCLA (for three years) and Oakland University (in Rochester, MI). Parents: Kent and Janis McDonald. Member of Actors' Equity Association (1968-), Screen Actors Guild (1973-), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Directors Guild of America. One-time TV/radio host. Married three times, the first occurred during his college heyday. His second wife, actress Roxanne Rogers, had a small part in the only movie he directed, "976-EVIL." Personal quotes "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' 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 Chekhov, and now there are thousands of people walking around America with my tattoo on them. I just take it as pop culture." Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: It's got to be a little daunting for an actor to realize that his most famous, career-making characterization is one that smothers his face under heavy makeup-and casts him as a child molester and murderer. But that may be this boyish, curly-haired actor's lot in life, to be remembered as the blood-curdling Freddy Krueger, "star" of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Possibly the most unlikely horror star since mild-mannered, soft-spoken Boris Karloff, Englund studied acting at UCLA before landing his first feature-film role as a backwoods lover in Buster and Billie (1974), a hayseed Romeo and Juliet story. A series of inconsequential roles followed-including Hustle (1975), St. Ives, A Star Is Born, Stay Hungry (all 1976), Big Wednesday (1978), The Fifth Floor (1980), Dead and Buried and Galaxy of Terror (both 1981)-before director Wes Craven tapped him to play the nocturnal nemesis of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Through the success of that picture and its six sequels, Englund has become something of a cult figure; with his newly earned clout he landed a directorial opportunity in 1988 with 976-EVIL (which, unfortunately, wasn't successful). Despite efforts to branch into mainstream movies, Englund's post-Freddy roles haven't exactly been challenging ones: He played the titular terror in the minor remake of The Phantom of the Opera (1989), and appeared as a comic heavy in the Andrew Dice Clay vehicle, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990). He also starred in the TV series "Nightmare Cafe" (1992), executive produced by Wes Craven, and The Mangler (1995). |
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