Robert Patrick

He has played ongoing roles in series such as 1923, The Outer Limits, The Sopranos, Elvis, Burn Notice, Last Resort, Sons of Anarchy, its spin-off Mayans M.C., Jamie Hawkins in The Night Agent, and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series.

Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor.

Known for portraying villains and authority figures alike, Patrick is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations.

Patrick was born in Marietta, Georgia, on November 5, 1958, and raised there, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts, Dayton, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Bay Village, Ohio.

He is the eldest of five children born to Nadine and Robert M. Patrick.

Patrick did not start to pursue an acting career until his mid-twenties.

During his childhood, he did not like to act.

In third grade, Patrick refused to wear a pair of green tights required for Peter Pan.

He graduated from Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan in 1977.

Patrick was a track and field and football athlete at Bowling Green State University.

He dropped out before graduating when he found an interest in drama and acting.

After leaving college, Patrick worked as a house painter and continued as such until a boating accident in 1984 in Lake Erie.

He swam for three hours in order to save others still stranded on the accident site, and nearly drowned in doing so.

After the accident, he moved to Los Angeles at age 26.

Patrick first appeared in several low-budget science-fiction and action films produced by Roger Corman and shot in the Philippines by Cirio H. Santiago.

Looking back, he credited his early appearances in films to his "tough-looking exterior".

Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986.

After playing a supporting role in Die Hard 2 (1990), he came to prominence as the T-1000, the antagonist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)—a role he reprised for cameo appearances in Wayne's World (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993).

He accepted the role, since he had worked with the same crew on The Outer Limits, a series which he appeared in during the early 1990s.

His other film credits include Fire in the Sky (1993), Striptease (1996), Cop Land (1997), The Faculty (1998), Spy Kids (2001), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Ladder 49 (2004), Walk the Line (2005), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), We Are Marshall (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), and Safe House (2012).

In television, Patrick played FBI Special Agent John Doggett in The X-Files, Colonel Tom Ryan in The Unit, DHS agent Cabe Gallo in Scorpion, and Auggie Smith / White Dragon in Peacemaker.

After Terminator 2, Patrick landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero, Fire in the Sky (both 1993) and Striptease (1996).

Because of his fondness for martial arts, Patrick starred in two martial arts films titled Double Dragon and Hong Kong 97, both released in 1994, and even had a fight scene with taekwondo master Hwang Jang-lee in Future Hunters (1988).

His performance in Fire in the Sky led The X-Files creator Chris Carter to cast him in that series for the role of John Doggett.

Patrick's brother, Richard, had previously worked for the series by adding music for the soundtrack album The X-Files: The Album.

He played leading roles in pictures such as Eye of the Eagle, Equalizer 2000 or Future Hunters.

Patrick later commented that his experience with Santiago had been his "film school".

The B movies he made in the Philippines helped him get an SAG card.

Patrick's first major Hollywood film was Die Hard 2, in a small part as a henchman for Colonel Stuart, before landing the role of the T-1000, the villain of James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

Cameron said he chose Patrick because of his physical appearance, which he felt fit the role.

Patrick was "broke" at the time, living in a cheap apartment with his girlfriend, Barbara, whom he married during shooting.

He has credited the film with starting his career.

Patrick was cast as Doggett in 2000.

The X-Files was canceled two seasons later, after Duchovny left the show following season 7, which resulted in low ratings for the show.

Patrick made several appearances on many genre magazines, with TV Guide going so far as to label him one of the Ten Sexiest Men of Sci-Fi.

In 2000, Patrick appeared in three episodes of The Sopranos ("The Happy Wanderer", "Bust Out" and "Funhouse") as David "Davey" Scatino, a store owner struggling with gambling debts owed to Richie Aprile and Tony Soprano.

Four years later, he made a guest appearance in the pilot episodes for Sci-Fi Channel's original series Stargate Atlantis, "Rising", as the military component commander of the Atlantis expedition, Marshall Sumner.

AllMovie journalist Tracie Cooper wrote that, by the conclusion of The X-Files in 2002, Patrick had developed a "solid reputation within the industry", with critics, fans and co-stars alike praising his "work ethic, personality, and consistent performances."

Actor and director Jason Bateman described Patrick as "one of the great heavies."

Patrick played Johnny Cash's father, Ray Cash, in the film Walk the Line and Elvis's father, Vernon Presley in the miniseries Elvis. In 2003, he appeared in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which reunited him with his Striptease co-star, Demi Moore.