Robert John Burke

Place of Birth: Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

Date of Birth: September 12, 1960

Ethnicity: Irish

Robert John Burke is an American actor. His roles include the films The Unbelievable Truth, Rambling Rose, Dust Devil, Simple Men, A Far Off Place, RoboCop 3, Heaven & Earth, Tombstone (1993), Killer: A Journal of Murder, If Lucy Fell, Fled, Stephen King’s Thinner, Cop Land, First Love, Last Rites; Somewhere in the City, No Such Thing, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Piggie, Speak (2004), Connie and Carla, Hide and Seek (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck., Miracle at St. Anna, Limitless, Safe (2012), 2 Guns, True Story, Future ’38, BlacKkKlansman, Boarding School (2018), The Retaliators, Intrusion, and Boston Strangler (2023); and the shows From the Earth to the Moon, Oz, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Rescue Me, Kidnapped, Gossip Girl, Person of Interest, Army Wives, Allegiance, Project Blue Book, and The Last of Us. He has often worked with filmmaker Hal Hartley. He has also been billed as Robert Burke.

His parents were from Galway, Ireland. He has two children. Robert is a volunteer firefighter on Fire Island, New York.