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name: "Robbie Amell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robbie-amell"
fi1m_id: "robbie-amell"
imdb_id: "nm2064412"
tmdb_id: 1223726
wikidata_id: "Q926420"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 April 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T00:12:00.561247+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Robbie Amell

## Identity

Robbie Amell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robbie-amell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robbie-amell
- **IMDb ID:** nm2064412
- **TMDB ID:** 1223726
- **Wikidata ID:** Q926420
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Amell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q926420, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2064412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223726

Actor. Born 21 April 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 April 1988, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Also known as:** Robert Patrick Amell IV
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Amell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q926420, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2064412/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223726

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City*](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md) (47)

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## Fi1m on Robbie Amell

> Robbie Amell has spent more than a decade as the pleasant, square-jawed lead of science-fiction and superhero television, and he is easy company. Asked to carry part of a film, as in *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City*, he has stood beside it and frowned.

In *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021) Robbie Amell plays Chris Redfield, brother to Kaya Scodelario's Claire, and for most of the film he frowns at her. She has come back to a town she spent years running from and is not pleased about it; he stands nearby and disapproves. We scored the film 47 and thought the cast better than the script deserved, and the frown is the clearest example of what we meant. We kept waiting for it to turn into something, an argument or a joke, and when it did not we stopped watching him and watched her.

That is unfair to him and not entirely wrong. Amell has been working since he was six, in commercials alongside his sister, and he came up through the teen end of the trade: *Cheaper by the Dozen 2* (2005), *Life with Derek*, *True Jackson, VP*, and then *The DUFF* (2015), where he was the good-looking one in a high-school comedy. Television found him a steadier home. He was the lead of *The Tomorrow People* (2013–2014) and then Ronnie Raymond, otherwise Firestorm, in *The Flash* (2014–2017, returning in 2022), and since then he has rarely been far from a superpower or a video game.

The job that defines him is *Upload* (2020–2025), five years as Nathan Brown in a science-fiction comedy. We have not reviewed it, so we will not judge it at length, but the notices are consistent: he is at his best with other actors, the ease between him and his co-stars is what people remember, and one review called the performance passive and then conceded that the character was written that way. The third series gave him more than one part to play, and that was noticed too. Meanwhile he has started making his own work, producing *Code 8* (2019), expanded from a short, with his cousin Stephen Amell for the director Jeff Chan, and returning for *Code 8: Part II* (2024).

The pattern is plain. Amell is a reactor. Put him beside someone with a strong line and he listens well, looks handsome and hands the scene back improved; this is a real skill and television runs on it. Film asks for something else, a man who makes things happen when nobody is feeding him, and in Raccoon City Johannes Roberts had two games to shoot and no time to find out whether Amell could do that. We still do not know.

Which may be why he has taken to producing. An actor whom other people keep casting to stand beside the lead has one sure way of getting a better part, and that is to build the film himself.

## Biography

Robbie Amell, also credited as Robert Patrick Amell IV, is a Canadian-American actor and producer. Born on 21 April 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, he began modelling and acting in commercials as a child and trained at the Canadian Studios Acting Academy.

He is known for his roles as Ronnie Raymond / Firestorm in the television series *The Flash* (2014–2017, 2022), Nathan Brown in *Upload* (2020–2025), and Stephen Jameson in *The Tomorrow People* (2013–2014). His film credits include Wesley Rush in *The DUFF* (2015), Max in *The Babysitter* (2017), Connor Reed in *Code 8* (2019), and Chris Redfield in *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021). Amell is the cousin of actor Stephen Amell and is married to actress Italia Ricci.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021), Fi1m 47, as Chris Redfield — [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

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

- *Racewalkers* (2025), as Ched Lester · Producer
- *Code 8 Part II* (2024), as Connor · Producer
- *Float* (2024), as Blake Hamilton · Producer
- *EXmas* (2023), as Graham
- *Simulant* (2023), as Evan · Executive Producer
- *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City* (2021), as Chris Redfield — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.md)
- *Eat Wheaties!* (2020), as Brandon
- *The Babysitter: Killer Queen* (2020), as Max
- *Desperados* (2020), as Jared
- *Upload* (2020), series, as Nathan Brown
- *The Witcher* (2019), series, as Gallatin
- *Code 8* (2019), as Connor Reed · Executive Producer
- *When We First Met* (2018), as Ethan
- *The Babysitter* (2017), as Max
- *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2017), series, as Kevin
- *ARQ* (2016), as Renton
- *Nine Lives* (2016), as David Brand
- *Code 8* (2016), as Taylor Reed · Executive Producer
- *Max* (2015), as Kyle Wincott
- *The DUFF* (2015), as Wesley Rush
- *The Flash* (2014), series, as Ronnie Raymond / Deathstorm, Ronnie Raymond / Firestorm, Ronnie Raymond / Deathstorm (voice)
- *Criminal* (2014), as Dino
- *The Hunters* (2013), as Paxton Flynn
- *Anatomy of the Tide* (2013), as Brad McManus
- *The Tomorrow People* (2013), series, as Stephen Jameson
- *Struck by Lightning* (2013), as Justin Walker
- *Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous* (2013), series, as Nick
- *1600 Penn* (2012), series, as D.B.
- *Hornet's Nest* (2012), as Andy Brazil
- *Alcatraz* (2012), series, as Young Ray Archer
- *Revenge* (2011), series, as Adam Connor
- *Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster* (2010), as Fred
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, as Billy Keats
- *Hot in Cleveland* (2010), series, as Lloyd
- *Unnatural History* (2010), series, as Michael O'Molley
- *Pretty Little Liars* (2010), series, as Eric Kahn
- *Modern Family* (2009), series, as Chase — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins* (2009), as Fred
- *The Alyson Stoner Project* (2008), as VIP Guest
- *True Jackson, VP* (2008), series, as Jimmy Madigan
- *Picture This* (2008), as Drew Patterson
- *Murdoch Mysteries* (2008), series, as Wallace Driscoll
- *American Pie Presents: Beta House* (2007), as Nick Anderson
- *Left for Dead* (2007), as Blair
- *Runaway* (2006), series, as Stephen
- *Brothers and Sisters* (2006), series, as Young William
- *Cheaper by the Dozen 2* (2005), as Daniel Murtaugh
- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), series, as Scooby
- *Life with Derek* (2005), series, as Max
- *CSI: NY* (2004), series, as Riley Frazier
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Agent Miller — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Send a Scare*, as Executive Producer
- *Whodunnit*, Actor
- *Akiya*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Robbie Amell in 2010](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-5c07571fe9cd.jpg) Robbie Amell in 2010 — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Robbie_Amell.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Robbie Amell](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-1be3f2e50533.jpg) Robbie Amell — Heroes & Villains, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Robbie_Amell_%2838050563394%29.jpg/1280px-Robbie_Amell_%2838050563394%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robbie Amell in 2013](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-63b164c67874.jpg) Robbie Amell in 2013 — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Robbie_Amell_2013.jpg/1280px-Robbie_Amell_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robbie Amell filming for The Tomorrow People 2014](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-b0b607852ce3.jpg) Robbie Amell filming for The Tomorrow People 2014 — Nigel Horsley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Robbie_Amell_2014.jpg/1280px-Robbie_Amell_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robbie Amell](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-5e574eae21ac.jpg) Robbie Amell — Image via TMDB
- ![Robbie Amell](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-a3ed2bf30ef2.jpg) Robbie Amell — Image via TMDB
- ![Robbie Amell](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-883a08f2c925.jpg) Robbie Amell — Image via TMDB
- ![HVFFATL2017Firestorm-ALS-34](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-e9a7418fb495.jpg) HVFFATL2017Firestorm-ALS-34 — Heroes & Villains, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/HVFFATL2017Firestorm-ALS-34_%2838766977451%29.jpg/1280px-HVFFATL2017Firestorm-ALS-34_%2838766977451%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robbie Amell in february 2016 at "Heroes and Villains fanfest](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-ee8bc0e66dd9.jpg) Robbie Amell in february 2016 at "Heroes and Villains fanfest — Heroes & Villains, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Robbie_Amell_2016.jpg/1280px-Robbie_Amell_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robbie Amell](https://film.one/media/person/1293044/gallery-d60b9540e6d5.jpg) Robbie Amell — Image via TMDB

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