Rob Edwards (actor)

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{{Other people|Rob Edwards}}

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Rob Edwards (born 24 May 1949 in Worcester, Worcestershire{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250310/|title=Rob Edwards|website=IMDb}}) is an English actor.

Edwards' television credits include: Doctor Who (the serials The Face of Evil and The Robots of Death), An Englishman's Castle, Secret Army, The Fourth Arm, By the Sword Divided, The Practice, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, Midsomer Murders and Dalziel and Pascoe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5168|title=Rob Edwards|website=www.aveleyman.com}}

Edwards attended RGS Worcester and Pembroke College, Oxford before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/search/rsc_person:edwards-rob|title=Search | RSC Performances | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust|website=collections.shakespeare.org.uk}} He has performed in many productions including the BBC Shakespeare films of Henry V and Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 as Prince John.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2fc0970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507023224/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2fc0970|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 May 2021|title=Rob Edwards|website=BFI}} Other stage roles include Hippolito in Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton with the RSC in 2006, and Scar in Disney's The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre in London for several years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/442479-rob-edwards|title=Rob Edwards theatre profile|website=www.abouttheartists.com}} For the latter, he was nominated Best Actor in a Musical at the Olivier Awards in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2000/|title=Olivier Winners 2000|website=Olivier Awards}}