Robert Gwyn Davin

Born and bred in beautiful North Wales, Welsh (Cymraeg) is Robert's native language. Moving to London in 1986, Robert worked backstage in West End shows; A Month of Sundays with George Cole, of Minder fame. He graduated with distinction from LAMDA in 1989. He co-founded a theatre company called Threshold (later Arts Threshold) with fellow LAMDA graduates. Robert's first audition after graduating from drama college, gaining him his Equity card, (in the days when you needed one to work as an actor in the UK) was in repertory at Derby Playhouse. 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, working increasingly in TV and film. In 1994, played Matthew in the multi award winning independent film BRANWEN, before filming FIRST KNIGHT for four months. In the early 2000's he played a regular character on the long running Welsh soap opera Pobol Y Cwm for two years. Rode an Arabian stallion, while 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 as to when Robert would be thrown off by the highly strung,and increasingly irate, black stallion, and also who would have to call the ambulance. Nobody won the bet. He stayed on throughout the shoot. In 2004, playing a hardened criminal during a heist gone wrong in a two episode story, he had the pleasure of throwing one of the main characters' in BBC1's CASUALTY off the roof of a multi story car park. Has lived in London off and on for many years, briefly in Toronto, Canada, and of course in Wales (both South and North).