Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1972. At an early age his family moved to Welkom, a small mining town in the interior of SA. There he was educated at Christian Brothers College and developed a love of performance through a series of school concerts and trips to the local Saturday morning film matinées.
Following his passion, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts / Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama from the University of Cape Town in 1993.
He was cast in a number of theatre roles including Macbeth for the SA State Theatre and his performance in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3 garnered him a Naledi Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.553 |
| Birthday | 1972-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Cape Town - South Africa |
| Also Known As |
2008
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
6.7/54
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, bef...
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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
2009
District 9
7.4/9367
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South Afr...
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District 9
1999
Bravo Two Zero
5.711/38
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Bravo Two Zero
2013
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6.863/521
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected pre...
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
2014
Young Ones
5.7/294
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to st...
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Young Ones
2015
Chappie
6.8/7831
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come u...
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Chappie
2014
The Salvation
6.477/840
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow tow...
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The Salvation
2016
The Siege of Jadotville
7.12/861
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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The Siege of Jadotville
2006
The Trail
6.6/9
After her mothers death, Grace, 14, decides to go back to Africa to find her father whom she hasn't seen since her parents divorced. After his plane c...
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The Trail
2006
Catch a Fire
6.186/121
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest...
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Catch a Fire
2012
Safe House
6.472/3539
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative esc...
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Safe House
2017
Shepherds and Butchers
6.3/71
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Shepherds and Butchers
2009
Invictus
7.2/4050
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his...
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Invictus
2017
Firebase
6.8/143
Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.
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2017
Rakka
7.1/302
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find...
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2004
In My Country
6.2/43
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
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In My Country
2019
Serenity
5.4/1506
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an el...
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Serenity
2021
Oats Studios: Volume 1
5.8/23
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Ne...
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Oats Studios: Volume 1
2020
The Last Days of American Crime
6.5/815
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossibl...
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2014
Wild Life
6.4/49
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Wild Life
2018
The Forgiven
6.2/87
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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The Forgiven
2021
The Mauritanian
7.4/1075
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a...
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The Mauritanian
2019
Uncovered
0/0
The journalist Aluta finds herself unfolding a government conspiracy involving her father figure Frank Drake, a corrupt mine magnate.
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