Rob was born on 1 March 1984. He was born in Harlem in New York City. He is 6 feet and 1 inch tall. He did not spend his childhood in Harlem, New York City, his childhood was spend in Brooklyn in New York City. He graduated from Poly Prep in 2002. There is no information about his parents or siblings.
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He is an awesome actor and he is well-known for his role in movies like ‘Get Carter’ and ‘Take the Lead’. He is also known for his role in Finding Forrester. Finding Forrester was his first movie and he entered the industry with that movie. His performance was widely appreciated by the audience. It has also been reported that he loves to play basketball and poker.
In 2005, he did another film, the name of the movie was ‘Get Carter’. His role was to act like the famous basketball player, Kenyon Stone. He was again appreciated for this role and received a lot of popularity and love after this movie.
In 2006 he signed another movie called, ‘Take the Lead’ and this movie also turned out to be a huge success. In 2007 he did another movie which is ‘Mockumentary Live’ and in 2008 he acted in the movie ‘Stop-Loss’. This movie was loved by the critics but the movie failed to make handsome collections at the box office. Later in the same year, he appeared in ‘The Express’.
In his life he has done more of biography based movies and because of his hard work he got success. Success never changed him as a person, he had always been a down to earth personality and this is proved by the fact that he is the spokesman of the “Light the Night Walk” campaign of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He works for the novel causes as well. In between 2010 and 2013, it is widely known that Rob worked for HBO series. The name of the series is ‘Treme’. At present, he is being showcased in a TV series called ‘Blindspot’.
His success can be estimated not just by his net worth but also by going through the lists of awards he won. To begin with he won Sierra Award for Best Male New comer for his acting in the movie Finding Forrester. He won Sierra award in 2000. His second award was given to him in 2001 and the name of the award is PFCS Award, this was given to him under the category Best Newcomer for the movie Finding Forrester. Indeed, Finding Forrester turned out to be a lucky movie for him.
The same year he was given another award for the same movie. The award that he was honoured was with Young Artist Award under the category of Best Performance in a Feature Film and Leading Young Actor for the movie Finding Forrester. Rob’s annual salary is not public but it is clear that he earns a healthy salary as his net worth is estimated to be around 1.5 million US dollars. Rob’s net worth speaks of his success.
Last Modified: Apr 6, 2020
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