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Robert Hammond Patrick[1] portrayed the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

Biography[]

Born 5 November 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA, Patrick is perhaps best known as the actor who played the human guise of the T-1000. Immediately after being cast in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Patrick took a martial arts crash course, and began exhaustive strength, endurance, and weapons-training sessions. "For three months," he says, "all I did was sleep, eat, take vitamins, and train.". Learning traditional martial arts further enabled Patrick to minimize emotional facial expressions. Robert Patrick has played the T-1000 in three different movies: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Wayne's World (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993). He then took up the character once again for theme park attraction T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, a short film filmed in a 3-D process that makes the film appear to jump out at you. James Cameron describes his casting of Robert Patrick on the Terminator 2 DVD, as a deliberate contrast to the original Terminator character portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger: "I wanted to find someone who would be a good contrast to Arnold. If the 800 series is a kind of human Panzer tank, then the 1000 series had to be a Porsche." He is often cast as a villain due to his intense presence and cold blue eyes.

Robert reprised his role as the T-1000 in a Direct TV commercial, saying "People think I'm here to terminate John Connor. But, really, I just wanna hang out and watch his Direct TV."[2] In addition to playing the T-1000, Robert has also portrayed Agent Doggett on the X-Files and Col. Sumner in the series premiere of "Stargate Atlantis".

Filmography[]

  • Autopsy (2008)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (2007)
  • Lonely Street (2007)
  • Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
  • Strange Wilderness (2007)
  • We Are Marshall (2006)
  • Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
  • The Marine (2006)
  • Firewall (2006)
  • Walk the Line (2005)
  • Supercross (2005)
  • The Fix (2005)
  • Ladder 49 (2004)
  • Eye See You (2003)
  • Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
  • Pavement (2002)
  • The Hire: Ticker (2002)
  • Out of These Rooms (2002)
  • Texas Rangers (2001)
  • Spy Kids (2001)
  • Angels Don't Sleep Here (2000)
  • Mexico City (2000)
  • All the Pretty Horses (2000)
  • Shogun Cop (1999)
  • A Texas Funeral (1999)
  • The Tactical Assault (1998)
  • The Vivero Letter (1998)
  • Winter (1998)
  • Renegade Force (1998)
  • The Faculty (1998)
  • Ambushed (1998)
  • The Only Thrill (1997)
  • Hacks (1997)
  • Cop Land (1997)
  • Rosewood (1997)
  • Asylum (1996)
  • Striptease (1996)
  • T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
  • Decoy (1995)
  • Last Gasp (1995)
  • The Cool Surface (1994)
  • Hong Kong 97 (1994)
  • Zero Tolerance (1994)
  • Double Dragon (1994)
  • Body Shot (1993)
  • Last Action Hero (1993) (as T-1000)
  • Fire in the Sky (1993)
  • Wayne's World (1992) (as T-1000)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • Die Hard 2 (1990)
  • Future Hunters (1989)
  • Hollywood Boulevard II (1989)
  • Killer Instinct (1987)
  • Warlords of Hell (1987)
  • Equalizer 2000 (1986)
  • Eye of the Eagle (1986)

Notes[]

  1. Patrick, Robert [@robertpatrickT2] (July 25, 2021). "You are correct. I am not a Junior. @imdb bio is incorrect about that and where I was raised. For some reason they will not edit my bio. My late father was Robert M. I am Robert H. Hope that clears it up. Thank you for your support.". Twitter. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved on August 7, 2021.
  2. Exact quote may vary depending on network, time of day, etc.
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