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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.