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name: "Nick Robinson"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 March 1995"
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updated: "2026-09-17T14:30:59.767882+00:00"
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# Nick Robinson

Actor. Born 22 March 1995 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 March 1995, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Robinson_(American_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2985242, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3538718/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1108907

## Coming up

- *Charlie Harper* (2026-09-24), as Charlie

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Maid*](https://film.one/tv/maid.md) (79)

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## Fi1m on Nick Robinson

> Nick Robinson plays young men who are sorry: sorry they lied, sorry they drank, sorry they said nothing. Cast for a decade as the boy you were meant to like, he got interesting when he was asked to be the one you should leave.

In *Maid* (2021), Sean Boyd never raises a hand. He tends bar, he drinks and he apologises, and he means it every time, which is the trouble. Alex has left him, and the woman who runs the shelter has to explain to her that what she was living with counts as abuse. Alex does not believe it, and for a while we were not sure we did either. Nick Robinson plays Sean soft-faced and plausible, a man who is trying, and Molly Smith Metzler's series is careful never to let him become a monster, because monsters are easy to leave. We caught ourselves hoping he would pull himself together, then felt uneasy about the hoping, and that unease is the performance doing its job.

He got there by a long route through being liked. Seattle children's and regional theatre as a boy, then five years on the sitcom *Melissa & Joey* (2010–2015), then a first lead in the independent *The Kings of Summer* (2013) and a supporting part in *Jurassic World* (2015) that put his face in front of a far larger audience. Through the late 2010s he led young-adult adaptations, most visibly *Love, Simon* (2018), in which Greg Berlanti cast him as Simon Spier, a closeted teenager in the first major studio film built around a gay teen romance. The habit that runs through all of it is the same: a young man holding something in and letting you see the effort of holding it. He does this with unusual economy, and for a decade it was nearly all anyone asked of him.

*A Teacher* (2020) and *Maid* changed the question. The holding-in is still there, but what is being held is worse: not a secret but a temper, a bottle, a failure to be what his daughter needs. He has said that "It was a welcome challenge to play someone who is not that likable", and you can see the relief in the work. Opposite Margaret Qualley he is never the centre of the frame, which suits him; he is at his best when the story belongs to someone else and he is the reason it is hard for her. The limit is the same as the gift. That softness can read as passivity, and a director who gives him nothing to push against will get a pleasant blank.

Since *Maid* he has turned up in features, *Damsel* (2024) among them, and we have not yet seen the part that settles what kind of adult actor he is. He has said he likes not doing the same thing twice. We would like to see what he does with a man who is not sorry at all.

## Biography

Nick Robinson is an American actor. Born in Seattle, Washington, he began acting in local stage productions as a child, including *A Christmas Carol* and *Mame* in 2008. He gained early television experience with a main role as Ryder Scanlon in the sitcom *Melissa & Joey* (2010–2015).

Robinson made his feature film debut in *The Kings of Summer* (2013) and appeared in supporting and lead roles in *Jurassic World* (2015), *The 5th Wave* (2016), *Everything, Everything* (2017) and *Love, Simon* (2018). He played Sean Boyd in the Netflix miniseries *Maid* (2021). He has also appeared in *A Teacher* (2020) and later films including *Damsel* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Maid* (2021), Fi1m 79, as Sean Boyd — [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Charlie Harper* (2026), as Charlie
- *Voicemails for Isabelle* (2026), as Wes
- *The Abandons* (2025), series, as Elias Teller
- *Turn Me On* (2024), as William
- *Snack Shack* (2024), as Shane, Executive Producer
- *Damsel* (2024), as Prince Henry
- *Shadow Brother Sunday* (2024), as Jacob
- *History of the World: Part II* (2023), series, as Robert Todd Lincoln
- *Maid* (2021), series, as Sean Boyd — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *Silk Road* (2021), as Ross Ulbricht
- *Shadow in the Cloud* (2021), as Stu Beckell
- *A Teacher* (2020), series, as Eric Walker
- *Love, Victor* (2020), series, as Simon Spier
- *Strange but True* (2019), as Philip Chase
- *Native Son* (2019), as Jan Erlone
- *Krystal* (2018), as Taylor Ogburn
- *Love, Simon* (2018), as Simon
- *Everything, Everything* (2017), as Olly Bright
- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), as Bar Guest (uncredited)
- *Being Charlie* (2016), as Charlie Mills
- *Cans* (2016), as Chris
- *The 5th Wave* (2016), as Ben Parish / Zombie
- *TheCavKid* (2015), as Punk Kid
- *Jurassic World* (2015), as Zach
- *Salt of the Earth* (2015), as Faustus
- *Old Timer* (2015), Writer, Director
- *The Kings of Summer* (2013), as Joe Toy
- *The Old Switcha-roo* (2012), as Jerry
- *Frenemies* (2012), as Jake Logan
- *Displaced* (2010), as Kid with Towel
- *Melissa & Joey* (2010), series, as Ryder Scanlon
- *CC 2010* (2009), as CC's Father (Young)
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Felix Bryce
- *Clybourne Park*, Acting
- *Kennedy*, series, as Joe Kennedy Jr.

## Gallery

- ![Nick Robinson](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-31db7bbd5c2d.jpg) Nick Robinson — MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Nick_Robinson_interview_2018_left.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Spencer Fornaciari of The MacGuffin interviews director Greg Berlanti, actor Nick Robinson and actress Alexandra Shipp from the romantic dramedy Love, Simon. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-9cc1c824abee.jpg) Spencer Fornaciari of The MacGuffin interviews director Greg Berlanti, actor Nick Robinson and actress Alexandra Shipp from the romantic dramedy Love, Simon. (2018) — The MacGuffin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Greg_Berlanti%2C_Nick_Robinson_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_Interview_-_Love%2C_Simon.jpg/1280px-Greg_Berlanti%2C_Nick_Robinson_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_Interview_-_Love%2C_Simon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Spencer Fornaciari of The MacGuffin interviews director Greg Berlanti, actor Nick Robinson and actress Alexandra Shipp from the romantic dramedy Love, Simon. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-ffede1604061.jpg) Spencer Fornaciari of The MacGuffin interviews director Greg Berlanti, actor Nick Robinson and actress Alexandra Shipp from the romantic dramedy Love, Simon. (2018) — The MacGuffin, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Greg_Berlanti%2C_Nick_Robinson_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_Interview_-_Love%2C_Simon_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Greg_Berlanti%2C_Nick_Robinson_%26_Alexandra_Shipp_Interview_-_Love%2C_Simon_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Katherine Langford and Nick Robinson (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-c44f00173535.png) Katherine Langford and Nick Robinson (2018) — MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Katherine_Langford_and_Nick_Robinson.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nick Robinson](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-b6b4ab3c0cf4.jpg) Nick Robinson — Image via TMDB
- ![Nick Robinson](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-0c14a088c8af.jpg) Nick Robinson — Image via TMDB
- ![Nick Robinson](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-a327d694b15d.jpg) Nick Robinson — Image via TMDB
- ![From left to right: David Kendall, Taylor Spreitler, Joey Lawrence, Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Robinson, Paula Hart. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-0662b38e41f2.jpg) From left to right: David Kendall, Taylor Spreitler, Joey Lawrence, Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Robinson, Paula Hart. (2011) — Elizium23, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Melissa_%26_Joey_cast_and_crew_at_Paley_Center.jpg/1280px-Melissa_%26_Joey_cast_and_crew_at_Paley_Center.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nick Robinson at the premiere of Being Charlie, 2015 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-0c509236a034.jpg) Nick Robinson at the premiere of Being Charlie, 2015 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Nick_Robinson_September_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nick Robinson](https://film.one/media/person/721633/gallery-3094acb010b3.jpg) Nick Robinson — Image via TMDB

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