Rob Brown Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for best newcomer in 2001
• Won a Young Artist Award for best performance in a feature film - leading young actor for "Finding Forrester" in 2001
• Recieved a Special Achievement Award at the 2001 Satellite Awards
• Was made the national spokesperson for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk in 2008
• Graduated from Amherst College with a degree in psychology in 2008
• With no prior acting experience, he got his big break at age 16 when he was cast as the lead in "Finding Forrester" after attending an open casting call for extras in the hope of earning enough to pay back his mother for a $300 cell phone bill
• Best known for playing Kenyon Stone in "Coach Carter" and Delmond Labreaux in "Treme․"
• Was a member of the varsity football team at Amherst College, where he played wide receiver