Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is a leading horror films American actor, famous for the role of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination as 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.
Englund was born in Glendale, California; his father was an aeronautics engineer who designed the U-2 spy plane. Englund started studying acting relatively soon, at the age of twelve. While being in high school, Englund attended Cranbook Theatre School in Bloomfield Hills. Later on he attended California State University Northridge for three years, being transferred to Michigan’s Oakland University, being trained at the Meadow Brook Theatre. Englund has been married three times, first he married Elizabeth Gardner in September 1968 while he was still in college, and they divorced in 1986. He married actress Roxanne Rogers in 1986, divorcing after only two years in 1988. In October, the same year, Englund married his current wife, Nancy Booth.
Englund loves surfing; he even appeared on Entertainment Tonight, in 1981, talking about surfing.
His first appearance in a film was in Buster and Billie, in 1974, appearing ever since in more than 100 films. His first notable appearance was with the role of Willie in the 1983 miniseries, V, as well as in the sequels V: The Final Battle (1984) and V: The Series (1984).
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