Blake Robbins
Blake Robbins is an award winning actor, writer and director. In 2012, after years in front of the camera, Blake stepped behind it to write, direct, produce and act in his feature film debut The Sublime and Beautiful, which world premiered at the 20th annual Slamdance Film Festival in 2014. A successful film festival run ensued which included 8 Grand Jury Awards, 7 Grand Jury Award nominations and a limited theatrical release with Candy Factory Films.
In 2015, Blake was approached by writing team Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison (Rudderless, director William H. Macy) to direct their screenplay adaptation of Nancy Pickard's NY Times Best Selling novel, The Scent of Rain & Lightning. Scent starring Maika Monroe, Maggie Grace, Will Patton, Bonnie Bedelia, Mark Webber, Justin Chatwin and Logan Miller world premiered as the opening night film for the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival and went on to win 8 Grand Jury Awards on the film festival circuit. In early 2018, Scent was released in North America by SP Releasing/Echo Bridge.
As an actor Blake's appeared both On and Off-Broadway. He's best know to television audiences for his roles as Dave Brass on HBO's groundbreaking series OZ, Tom Haplert, on NBC's hit comedy The Office, Mitch Glender, Sons Of Anarchy, and as Agent McGuinness on cult-favorite Firefly (creator Joss Whedon). Film performances include Wind River (Taylor Sheridan), Rubber (Quentin Dupieux), Martyrs (the Goetz Brothers), and The Ugly Truth opposite Gerard Butler. For his self directed performance in The Sublime and Beautiful he won both the Leonardo da Vinci Golden Horse Award at the Milan International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award for Best Actor at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Robbins is co-author of Acting Qs: Conversations with Working Actors with casting director and author Bonnie Gillespie.
Blake resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife Karen, daughters Molly and Emma and son Cooper.