Robin Lord Taylor
Taylor at the 2014 NY PaleyFest for Gotham
Born	Robin Lord Taylor (1978-06-04) June 4, 1978 (age 45)[1] Shueyville, Iowa, U.S.
Other names	Robin Taylor Robin L. Taylor
Occupations	Actor Director[2]
Years active	2005–present
Known for	Abernarthy Darwin Dunlap (Accepted) Jeff Williams (Another Earth) Julian (Would You Rather) Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[3]

Robin Lord Taylor (born June 4, 1978)^[1] is an American film and television actor and director, known for Accepted (2006), Another Earth (2011) and Would You Rather (2012). He stars in the television drama series Gotham as Oswald Cobblepot.

Personal life

A native of Shueyville, Iowa, Taylor attended Solon High School and Northwestern University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in theatre. He is of English, Scottish and German descent. He was raised Presbyterian.^[4] Since 2000, he has lived in New York, where Gotham is filmed.^[5]

In a November 2014 Glamour interview, Taylor was asked, "I notice you are wearing a wedding ring on your ring finger. Are you married?" To which he responded, "I am married! I like to keep it private, but I've been married for over three years, and we've been together for 10 1/2. No kids. No kids yet!"^[6]

In a March 2015, Slate noted Taylor as "openly gay" in an article discussing the typecasting of gay actors. Taylor, himself, added: "I feel like the landscape has totally changed. Regardless of sexual preference, it’s more that as a character actor, the less I reveal about myself, the better. My favorite actors are the ones I know least about." ^[7]

Career

Taylor has appeared in several acclaimed television series, such as The Walking Dead, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife and Person of Interest. He had a recurring role as "Darrell, the Late Show page with the fake British accent" on Late Show with David Letterman. He played Abernathy Darwin Dunlap in Accepted. He appeared in such independent films as Would You Rather, Cold Comes the Night, and Another Earth; the last of which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.^[3]

Taylor was featured in Spike Lee's segment "Jesus Children of America" of the 2005 anthology film on the theme of childhood and exploitation All the Invisible Children (Venice Film Festival), The House is Burning (produced by Wim Wenders (Cannes Film Festival), Pitch (Cannes Film Festival), Kevin Connolly's The Gardener of Eden (Tribeca Film Festival) and Assassination of a High School President (Sundance Film Festival).^[3]

Taylor co-created and co-starred in Creation Nation: A Live Talk Show with Billy Eichner, which they performed at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and throughout New York City and Los Angeles. He has also appeared onstage in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, The Shooting Stage,^[8] Henry IV and No. 11 Blue and White, as well as numerous productions in Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater. ^{[citation needed]}

Gotham

Taylor was cast as Oswald Cobblepot in February 2014.^[9][10] His performance as Cobblepot has been described by Esquire as a "standout performance of the first episode [...] disarming and multilayered",^[11] by The Wall Street Journal as "a passionate performance ... [who] "steals the show",^[12] and as "spectacularly cast as the Penguin".^[13]

Filmography

Film

Television