Robert Patrick

<p>Born in Marietta, Georgia, on November 5, 1958, Robert Patrick was a collegiate track and football athlete at Bowling Green State University before discovering drama. After surviving an arduous near-drowning boating accident on Lake Erie in 1984, Patrick decided to pursue acting with fierce urgency, moving to Los Angeles and living out of his car while painting houses and performing in low-budget theater.</p><p>In 1990, director James Cameron cast Patrick in the role that would redefine cinematic sci-fi: the T-1000 in <em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</em> (1991). Training rigorously in sprinting, martial arts, and non-blinking weaponry manipulation, Patrick created a terrifyingly lethal, sleek, and predatory antagonist. The film became an unprecedented global box office triumph, and Patrick's relentless sprint and finger-blade transformations entered the permanent pop-culture pantheon.</p><p>Refusing to be typecast, Patrick built a prolific 40-year character acting resume, playing FBI Special Agent John Doggett in the final seasons of <em>The X-Files</em>, Johnny Cash's stern father Ray Cash in the Oscar-winning biopic <em>Walk the Line</em> (2005), and memorable roles in <em>The Sopranos</em>, <em>Sons of Anarchy</em>, <em>Scorpion</em>, and James Gunn's <em>Peacemaker</em>. An avid motorcyclist and honorary member of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club, Patrick frequently conducts cross-country charity rides supporting wounded military veterans.</p>