Robert Patrick Biography

Fast Facts

• Is the oldest of five children
• Grew up in Marietta, GA, Boston, MA, Kettering, OH, Detroit, MI and Cleveland, OH
• Played football his freshman year of college, but dropped out of school after he took a drama course
• Was in a boating accident on Lake Erie in 1984; swam for three hours to get help for the others stranded on the lake
• Brother Richard was a member of Nine Inch Nails before joining Filter
• Formed the production company 360 Entertainment in 1996
• Appeared in the video for "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are" by Meat Loaf
• Worked with his real-life wife Barbara Patrick in a number of films including Killer Instinct (1987), Body Shot (1993), Zero Tolerance (1995) and Shogun Cop (1999)
• She also appeared as his character's ex-wife on a few episodes of The X Files
• In 2005, he played the fathers of Elvis Presley (in the TV movie Elvis) and Johnny Cash (in the feature film Walk the Line)
• Has visited U
• S
• troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan
• Is a member of the Boozefighters motorcycle club, which is a nonprofit organization that raises funds for veterans, children and the poor
• Has participated in the Love Ride, a charity motorcycle event in Southern California
• Has said that though he's done a lot of work in the entertainment business, only a small portion of it has involved working with great material
• Is proud of his Scotch-Irish heritage and claims to have ancestors that came to America on the Mayflower