Robert Kazinsky

Robert Kazinsky
Kazinsky at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Robert John Appleby Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor model
Years active	2002–present

Robert Kazinsky is an English actor and model. He is best known for his appearances as Casper Rose in the Sky One drama Dream Team, Sean Slater in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, Chuck Hansen in Guillermo Del Toro's film Pacific Rim and Macklyn Warlow in the sixth season of HBO's True Blood in 2013. In 2016, he played the orc warchief Orgrim Doomhammer in Warcraft, and had the lead role in the U.S. Fox TV series Second Chance.

Kazinsky was born Robert John Appleby in Haywards Heath, the son of Phyllis and Paul Appleby. He grew up in Brighton. He has an older brother, Michael. Kazinsky is Jewish, his parents are descended from immigrants from Poland and Russia. He is a fluent speaker of Hebrew. Kazinsky was educated at Hove Park School in Hove, from 1995 to 2000. He appeared in their productions of Bugsy Malone and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Kazinsky trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting from September 2002 to July 2005. He took his grandfather's middle name as his stage name.

He has appeared in Israeli television commercials. He made his acting debut in 2005 when he had a guest role in an episode of the CBBC children's show The Basil Brush Show, playing a character named Sven Garley. He then got a role in Sky One's football drama Dream Team where he played Casper Rose from late 2005 until 2006, when he was killed off towards the end of the ninth series after Kazinsky announced his intention to leave.