
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.044 |
Birthday | 1972-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Cape Town - South Africa |
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2008

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
6.8/58
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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2009

District 9
7.448/9644
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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1999

Bravo Two Zero
5.8/39
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2013

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6.9/533
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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2014

Young Ones
5.7/300
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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2015

Chappie
6.785/8002
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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2014

The Salvation
6.5/870
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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2016

The Siege of Jadotville
7.114/884
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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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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2006

Catch a Fire
6.2/129
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
6.476/3657
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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2017

Shepherds and Butchers
6.3/74
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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2009

Invictus
7.18/4147
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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2017

Firebase
6.8/145
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
7.1/311
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
6.087/46
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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2019

Serenity
5.4/1540
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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2021

Oats Studios: Volume 1
6.096/26
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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2020

The Last Days of American Crime
6.499/819
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
6.4/51
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2018

The Forgiven
6.1/92
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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2021

The Mauritanian
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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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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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