Personal Info
Birth date
1979-08-04 (45 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Also known as
-Rob Collins
Biography
Rob Collins is an Australian television and stage actor and singer. Born in Darwin from a Tiwi Islands background, Collins worked with the National Indigenous Music Awards before coming to acting. Collins is currently best known for his major roles in the Australian television series **Cleverman** and **The Wrong Girl**, both of which premiered in 2016.
Filmography
Glitch
6.754
Overview:
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.NCIS: Sydney
7.241
Overview:
The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.Reef Break
6.987
Overview:
Cat Chambers is a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless, and irresistible, Cat's less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.Secret City
6.605
Overview:
Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.Upright
7.909
Overview:
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.Total Control
5.8
Overview:
A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.Mystery Road
6.9
Overview:
When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.Ten Pound Poms
6.333
Overview:
A group of Brits leave dreary post-war Britain in 1956 to embark on a life-altering adventure on the other side of the world. For only a tenner, they have been promised a better quality of life by the sea in sun-soaked Australia, but life down under isn’t exactly idyllic. Struggling with their new identity as immigrants, we follow their triumphs and pitfalls as they adapt to a new life in a new country, far from Britain and familiarity.Cleverman
5.8
Overview:
In the near future, creatures from ancient Aboriginal mythology endowed with extraordinary physical traits have emerged and must coexist with humans. Known as 'Hairypeople' they battle for survival in a world that wants to exploit and destroy them. One young man – The Cleverman – struggles with his own power and the responsibility to unite this divided world, but he must first overcome a deep estrangement from his older brother.RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service
8.8
Overview:
Based in Australia’s red heart, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart stopping emergencies they attend. This series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.Austin
6.1
Overview:
A best-selling, but recently cancelled, children's author has a meltdown when approached by Austin, a neurodivergent 20-something claiming to be his son. He then realises that embracing the young man may be the path to redemption.Extraction
7.312
Overview:
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.Human Error
5
Overview:
Follows Detective Holly O'Rourke and her homicide team as a seemingly open-and-shut murder investigation threatens to destroy her career, her family, and her faith in justice. As she scrambles to redeem her personal and professional reputation, Holly and her team uncover a criminal conspiracy that will change their lives forever.Queen of Oz
7.167
Overview:
Princess Georgiana is the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. A PR disaster, she's spent her spoilt, party-girl life plastered over the tabloids. On the back of her latest scandal her mother, the Queen, makes the unprecedented move of abdicating her Australian throne in favour of her daughter. It is hoped that giving her some real responsibility will finally be the making of her – and if it isn't, at least shipping her off keeps her 10,000 miles away from London.The Wrong Girl
5.9
Overview:
Lily, the producer of a successful cooking segment on a daily morning television show, and her flatmate Simone are taking a sabbatical from men. But Lily falls in love with Jack, the show's gorgeous new chef.Firebite
6.7
Overview:
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.Arthur the King
7.593
Overview:
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.The First Inventors
6
Overview:
Rob Collins and a team of First Nations investigators delve into 65,000 years of Aboriginal Australian invention, looking at how landscapes were transformed, how events were recorded, the use of navigation tools, and how societies were organized.Five Blind Dates
5.5
Overview:
More focused on her business than finding love, Lia is forced to go on five blind dates set up by her family and best friend after she is told by a fortune teller that her love life and the success of her tea shop are intertwined.Scarygirl
6.9
Overview:
As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet.Angel of Mine
6.201
Overview:
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.Cold Storage
NYR
Overview:
Teacake and Naomi, two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise. With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative, to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of Mankind itself.The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
5.5
Overview:
In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.Top End Wedding
5.869
Overview:
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.Limbo
5.8
Overview:
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.Undertow
4.3
Overview:
A photojournalist, grieving the loss of her stillborn child, is drawn into an obsessive relationship with a pregnant teenager.Acting
2025Cold Storage as Enos Minjarra
2024Human Error (6 Episodes) as Gavin Butterfield
2024Austin (1 Episode) as Foreign Minister
2024Arthur the King as Decker Swanson
2024Five Blind Dates as Curtis Osman
2023NCIS: Sydney (1 Episode) as Corporal Australian Army Angus Tipoloura
2023Scarygirl as Blister (voice)
2023Queen of Oz (6 Episodes) as Marc Kemarre
2023The First Inventors (4 Episodes) as Self - Narrator
2023Limbo as Charlie
2023Ten Pound Poms (12 Episodes) as Ron
2022The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson as Yakada
2021Firebite (8 Episodes) as Tyson Walker
2021RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service (8 Episodes) as Wayne Yates
2020Extraction as Rata
2020Undertow as Dan
2020Trespassing as Unknown
2019Upright (1 Episode) as Kane
2019Total Control as Charlie Irving
2019Total Control (18 Episodes) as Charlie Irving
2019Angel of Mine as Brian
2019Reef Break (7 Episodes) as Doug O'Casey
2019Top End Wedding as Father Isaac
2018Mystery Road (6 Episodes) as Amos
2016The Wrong Girl (18 Episodes) as Jack Winters
2016Secret City (6 Episodes) as Joseph Sullivan
2016Cleverman (12 Episodes) as Waruu West
2015Glitch (6 Episodes) as Phil Holden
Production
2020Trespassing ... Producer