Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor, voice
actor, and director, best known for playing the fictional serial
killer Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He
received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on
Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988, and won a Fantafestival Award
for The Mangler in 1995. Englund is a classically trained
actor.Englund was born on June 6, 1947, in Glendale, California, the
son of Janis (née MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics
engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 airplane. He is of part
Swedish ancestry and part Scottish. Englund began studying acting at
the age of twelve, accompanying a friend to a children's theater
program at California State University, Northridge.While he was in
high school, he attended the Cranbrook Theatre School (organized by
the Cranbrook Educational Community) in Bloomfield Hills. He then
attended UCLA for three years, before dropping out and transferring to
Michigan's Oakland University, where he trained at the Meadow Brook
Theater, at the time a branch of the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art.[dead link]
actor, and director, best known for playing the fictional serial
killer Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He
received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on
Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988, and won a Fantafestival Award
for The Mangler in 1995. Englund is a classically trained
actor.Englund was born on June 6, 1947, in Glendale, California, the
son of Janis (née MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics
engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 airplane. He is of part
Swedish ancestry and part Scottish. Englund began studying acting at
the age of twelve, accompanying a friend to a children's theater
program at California State University, Northridge.While he was in
high school, he attended the Cranbrook Theatre School (organized by
the Cranbrook Educational Community) in Bloomfield Hills. He then
attended UCLA for three years, before dropping out and transferring to
Michigan's Oakland University, where he trained at the Meadow Brook
Theater, at the time a branch of the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art.[dead link]
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