Robbie Andrew Kay
,
Lymington, Hampshire, England, UK
Birthday
1995-09-13
Occupation
Actor
Spouse(s)
Years Active
2006 - present
Biography
Robert Andrew "Robbie" Kay is an English actor whose credits include Fugitive Pieces, Heroes Reborn, Pinocchio, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Peter Pan in the Once Upon a Time television series.
Kay's family moved to the Czech Republic where he saw a note for English-speaking children to be extras in a film on a school noticeboard. Despite a lack of previous acting experience, this led to him getting a speaking part in The Illusionist, but his scenes were eventually cut from the film. After small roles in Hannibal Rising and My Boy Jack, a Canadian production company asked him to play the part of Young Jakob which involved a 9-week shooting schedule, three of which were on Greek islands. The people who made Fugitive Pieces had auditioned over 150 boys before finding the then 10-year-old Robbie Kay who had been living in Prague for two years.
He spent a year studying acting, singing and dancing at one of Britain's Stagecoach theatre schools.
He appeared in a miniseries adaptation of Pinocchio, playing the title character.
After finishing Pinocchio he went on to play Sam, a boy diagnosed with leukemia in Ways To Live Forever screening in late 2010. He appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, playing the cabin boy. More recently, he portrayed Peter Pan in the third season of Once Upon a Time. He will appear in the TV film, Rita as the title character's gay son. It was also announced that he would reprise his role as the cabin boy in the next Pirates Of The Caribbean film. In March 2015, Kay was cast as a high school teenager named Tommy in the TV series Heroes Reborn.
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