Robert Emms

Robert Emms Biography

Robert Emms (born Robert James MacPherson; 20 May 1986) is a British film, stage and television actor.

Life and career

Emms was born in Horley, Surrey, England. He studied at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology from 2002 to 2004, and then the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) from 2004 to 2007.

He has performed in several stage productions. In 2007 he appeared in The Six-Days World at the Finborough Theatre in London. The following year he was nominated as 'Best Newcomer' in the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for his performance in The Glee Club at the Library Theatre in Manchester. In March 2009 he was cast as Billy Narracott in the National Theatre's award-winning production of War Horse when it transferred to the West End, and from September 2009 he played the lead role of Albert Narracott.

Emms' television appearances include The Street by Jimmy McGovern, and Scott & Bailey.

He appeared in the BAFTA-nominated film The Arbor, playing David Dunbar. After Steven Spielberg saw him in War Horse at the New London Theatre, he was cast as David Lyons in Spielberg's film adaptation of the play. His other film work included Anonymous directed by Roland Emmerich, in which he played the Elizabethan playwright Thomas Dekker, and Tarsem Singh's version of The Brothers Grimm's Snow White, Mirror Mirror, with Julia Roberts.

In June 2011 Screen International named him as a 'Star of Tomorrow'.

Emms also works as a singing tutor at the London School of Dramatic Art (LSDA).

Stage work

2004 Equus (Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Martin Webb)
2007 The Six-Days World (The Finborough Theatre, London, directed by Jamie Harper)
2008 The Glee Club (Manchester Library Theatre, directed by Roger Haines)
2008 Shangri-La (The Roundhouse, directed by Mark Ravenhill)
2009-2010 War Horse (New London Theatre, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris)

Film and television work

2008 Shangri-La (TV drama, directed by Mark Ravenhill)
2008 Waking the Dead (TV series)
2008 The Wrong Door (TV series)
2009 Bucco Blanco (short film)
2009 The Street (TV series)
2009 Monday Monday (TV series)
2010 The Arbor (film)
2011 Anonymous (film)
2011 War Horse (film)
2011 Scott & Bailey (TV series)
2012 Mirror, Mirror (film)
2012 Broken (film)
2013 Kick-Ass 2 (film)
2013 Atlantis (TV series)

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