Chris Robson

Chris Robson
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Chris Robson is an actor who portrayed the unnamed father of the Monotheist family, seen as part of Clarice Willow's Apotheosis holoband simulation, in Caprica's "Unvanquished". Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Robson has worked in both regional theatre and screen productions since the mid-1980s.

Career

Early life and training

Robson is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, where he met fellow student Sarah Rodgers, with whom he would later collaborate professionally. In 1984, he took his first paid acting job at UBC's Summer Stock theatre festival, where he and Rodgers were among only three actors to appear in all four of that season's productions. That summer, Robson was noticed by Dan H. Laurence, historian and dramatic advisor to the estate of George Bernard Shaw; he later auditioned for the Shaw Festival several times without success, though the Stratford Festival hired him soon afterward.

Theatre

In December 2007, Robson played Henry Higgins in a Gateway Theatre production of My Fair Lady in Richmond, British Columbia, directed by Sarah Rodgers and co-starring Lauren Bowler as Eliza Doolittle, John Payne as Colonel Pickering, Jane Noble as Mrs. Higgins, Kirk Smith as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, and Eileen Barrett as Mrs. Pearce. Reviewing the production for The Province, Jerry Wasserman called Robson "excellent as Higgins, the snobby, misogynist linguist," and singled out his closing rendition of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" as a highlight of the show.

A decade later, Robson played the composer Sergei Prokofiev opposite Tariq Leslie as Joseph Stalin and James Gill as Soviet cultural commissar Andrei Zhdanov in Ensemble Theatre Company's production of David Pownall's Master Class, directed by Evan Frayne and presented at the Jericho Arts Centre from July 19 to August 16, 2017, as part of the company's Summer Repertory Festival. In his review for the Vancouver Sun, Wasserman wrote that Robson brought Prokofiev "to vivid life" while displaying his own piano skills in the role.

Robson is also listed as the director of a 2012 University of British Columbia Theatre and Film production pairing two George F. Walker one-act plays, Problem Child and The End of Civilization, staged at the Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts from February 9 to 18, 2012.

Screen

Robson's earliest credited screen work consisted of one-line reporter roles in two studio releases: he played the KOMQ Reporter in Scary Movie (2000) and a Reporter in Along Came a Spider (2001). He also appeared as Maytag Hogswallop on the Canadian sketch series Point Blank.

In the mid-2000s, Robson took two uncredited roles on Stargate SG-1: S.F. in the episode "Gemini" (2004) and a Caledonian Radio Operator in "Ethon" (2006). He also played a Staff Member in the World Trade Organization protest drama Battle in Seattle (2007).

Caprica

Robson portrayed the Father of Family in ^{(CAP: "Unvanquished")}, the tenth episode of Caprica and the first to air following the series' eight-month mid-season hiatus. The episode was written by Ryan Mottesheard and directed by Eric Stoltz, and first aired on Syfy on October 5, 2010.

Later screen credits

Robson appeared as Bill in the Supernatural episode "Heaven Can't Wait" (2013) and as a Stage Manager in the television film Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017).

He went on to play August's Dad in a 2020 episode of The 100 and Prince Charles in the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode "Mortal Khanbat" (2020), followed by a Teacher role on A Million Little Things (2023).

Additional television and film credits include Painkiller Jane, Jeremiah, Cold Squad, Stargate Atlantis, Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, Dark Water, Cocaine Godmother, Valley of the Boom, The Man in the High Castle, and The Miracle Season.

Personal life

Robson has said he takes little interest in his own on-screen work: "I don't watch TV. I find it boring."

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