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Emms in 2012, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Robert James MacPherson
Place of Birth: Surrey South Eastern, Surrey, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 20 May, 1986
Ethnicity: English, Scottish
Robert Emms is a British actor. His roles include the films The Arbor , Anonymous , War Horse (2011), Mirror, Mirror ; Broken (2012), Kick-Ass 2 , Borg/McEnroe , Apostasy (2017), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom , This Is Christmas , Starve Acre , The Choral , and Bad Apples (2025); and the shows The Wrong Door , Atlantis , Capital , Happy Valley , Gunpowder , Cleaning Up , Chernobyl , His Dark Materials , War of the Worlds , Four Lives , Andor , The Reckoning , Kaos , and Sherwood .
Robert’s paternal grandfather likely was Lachlan MacPherson (the son of Colin MacPherson and Mary Ann Mc Leor). Lachlan was born in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
Robert’s paternal grandmother likely was named Kathleen Ellen Olive Collins.
Robert’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Knowles.
