Robert Lyle Knepper

Hollywood actor Robert Knepper is familiar to most fans of his talent for his stellar role - the cruel maniac T-Bag from the series "Escape". Those who dared to watch this dark serial thriller will forever remember the sadist and manipulator Theodore Bagwell (or T-Bag), whose image Knepper managed to "revive" with incredible realism. Later, he played several more villains who secured the role of a genius negative character for the actor.

Robert Lyle Knepper was born in the hot summer of 1959 in the city of Fremont, which is located in the US state of Ohio. His interest in acting woke up early. Robert's mother worked as a property manager for a local theater. The boy often went backstage and enthusiastically watched the artists play.

In high school, the student passed an interview and several auditions. He was admitted to Northwestern University. Knepper undertook to study dramatic art, but the classes suddenly seemed boring to him. Robert dropped out of school, not holding out quite a bit before the final exams: he was offered to perform on the stage of a famous theater in Chicago. But in 1981, Knepper left for New York, where he continued his theatrical career.

A cinematic biography of Robert, or, as he is sometimes called, Rob Knepper began in 1986. Some sources call the comedy "This is life!" Blake Edwards. Others say that Knepper first appeared on screen in an episode of the hit TV series The Chase Papers. Perhaps this is not so important, because these projects did not bring Rob fame. But they turned out to be the springboard that opened the way for the artist to the world of Hollywood cinema.

Among the early projects of the 1980s and 90s, where Robert Knepper “got his hands on”, acquiring the necessary acting skills, was the pilot release of the popular crime series “LA Law”. In the adventure film "Wild Thing", the artist appeared in the form of a "wild" superhero who fights urban crime. A little later, viewers saw him in the films Gasoline, Food, Housing, A Day in the City of Angels and China Beach.

The 1990s turned out to be more generous to the actor. He managed to attract the attention of critics and audiences with a virtuoso game in the comedy "Find and Destroy" and an episode from the famous Woody Allen. The director entrusted Rob with a small role in his film masterpiece "Everyone Says I Love You."

Having in his filmography a picture of Woody Allen himself, Robert Knepper was able to apply for prominent roles in rating projects. Eminent directors drew attention to him. In the mid and late 1990s, the actor starred in the sensational Hollywood films Prisoner of Paradise, the popular TV series The West Wing and Her Name was Nikita. Knepper's villains came out so realistic and terrifying that they started talking in Hollywood about the birth of a new star.

In 2001, Robert Knepper starred in the mini-series Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot. He appeared as Robert Kennedy. Later, the actor admitted that this is his favorite role.

Real fame fell on the native of Ohio after his starring role in the TV series "Escape." Since 2005, Rob has frightened viewers with a dark and eerie image of the sadist and maniac T-Bag. He admitted that when he first read the script and realized who he would have to portray, he was horrified.

At that time, Robert Knepper was already an exemplary family man and father. And it was necessary to play a rapist and a murderer of children. But he could not refuse the offered job. After all, the shooting in the last season of the series "Carnival" has just ended, and there were no other proposals. To feed the family, I had to agree to the role of T-Bag.

Such a dark image is not surprising, because the series tells about the escape from a maximum security prison, and although the main character (Dominic Purcell) of the series got there on a trumped-up case, the rest are in prison deservedly so, so the selection of the foreground characters does not have a bright past.

In 2007, the actor starred in the famous crime thriller Hitman, a film adaptation of the video game series of the same name. Here Robert Knepper got the role of the Russian - Yuri Markov, however, the actor is not alone in this, because the action of the picture took place in Russia, and the famous Agent 47 was hired to assassinate the fictional President of the Russian Federation Belikov.

In the future, among the significant film projects of the Hollywood star, one can name the action movie "Carrier 3", the 4th season of the series "Heroes", the picture "Good Night and Good Luck", where Knepper starred in tandem with George Clooney, and the adventure film "Hostage" with Bruce Willis in the main roles.

The actor also starred in the extraordinary TV project "Cult", which is a horror series about a fictional TV series called "Cult", which is associated with a chain of mystical disappearances of people. Robert Knepper played the role of the actor who plays in this fictional television series.

In 2014, Robert Knepper, like a number of colleagues, joined the comic book universe. In the television series The Flash and Arrow, based on the famous DC comic book series, the actor played the role of the supervillain William Tokman, who took the name King of Hours.

Not much is known about Robert Knepper's personal life. He prefers to draw as little attention as possible to his family in order to protect them from curious paparazzi and arrogant journalists. It is known that the actor is married to a woman named Nadine Carey and has a son, Benjamin Peter. But the photos of his wife and son rarely even appear on the actor's popular Instagram, it goes without saying that the press knows any details of Knepper's family life.

2017 brought Robert Knepper a number of roles in popular films. In the next season of the psychological thriller Homeland, the actor played the secondary role of General Jamie McClendon.

The American television series is based on Gideon Raff's original Israeli project Prisoners of War. The film tells the story of a Marine sergeant who was captured by terrorists and was recruited by al-Qaeda, and then allegedly released by the Delta Special Forces.

In addition, the actor appeared in the third season of the cult mystical TV series "Twin Peaks" by David Lynch. This sequel, fans have waited 16 years to find out the outcome of the mysterious murder of a young girl from a provincial town. However, here the actor also played a cameo role.

The situation is similar with the TV series "Orville". This is a comedy-fantasy picture that received especially warm reviews from viewers and critics. Fans of science fiction have hailed Orville as a worthy successor to the classic Star Trek, the father and founder of television space fiction, while recognizing the value of Orville as a stand-alone series. In this television picture, Robert Knepper also only appeared: he played a minor role of Hamelak.

But in the project "Escape: Continuation", the fifth season of the famous television series, which was released in March 2017, the actor got a much larger role. Robert Knepper returned to the role of Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, one of the main roles of the series.

The series returned to screens after a nine-year hiatus. According to the plot in the artistic world of the television movie, more than one year has passed since the finale of the fourth season. At the beginning of the season, a photograph falls into the hands of Nepper's hero, which proves that the main character of the series, who allegedly died at the end of the fourth season, is alive. The characters reunite to free him from prison and plan a new escape.

In addition, the very image of the creepy character Robert Knepper, which terrified even the actor himself, has undergone a number of changes. The creators of this mega-popular tape finally took pity on the actor and added a drop of humanity to his creepy hero.

On January 5, 2018, the series' production company Fox officially renewed Escape for a sixth season. It was also announced that Robert Knepper's character will appear in the new season.

1987 - "Wild Thing" 1993 - "Gasoline, Food, Housing" 1996 - "Everyone says that I love you" 1997 - "Her name was Nikita" 2001 - "Law and order. Malice 2005-2018 - Escape 2005 - Hostage 2008 - The Day the Earth Stood Still 2009 - Heroes 2009 - Stargate Universe 2013 - Cult 2013 - Percy Jackson and the Sea of ​​Monsters "2013 -" City of Gangsters "2014-2015 -" The Hunger Games: Mockingjay "2017 -" Homeland "2017 -" Twin Peaks ", season 3

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