Rob DeRosa

Rob DeRosa

Personal Details

Biography

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Television Co-Star roles include:

* Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix, where he played the role of Creep, an extremely judgmental guy in a library.

* Shades of Blue on NBC, where he portrayed a Pimp in a seedy motel scene involved in an altercation with an "employee".

* The Mysteries of Laura on NBC, where he played the role of the knife-wielding, drugged-up Crazy Man.

* Gotham on FOX TV, where he appeared as Scarred Man, a jailed killer holding a guard hostage.

* White Collar on the USA Network, where he played a down-and-out guy, appearing in the final episode of the final season with the creator of the show.

* The Carrie Diaries on the CW Channel, where he played a homeless guy who doesn't like cream cheese.

Film roles include:

* An upcoming feature film, Ghost Team, where he will play the role of Crazy Junkie, a ravaged drug addict.

* An upcoming feature film, The APP, where he will star as Ray, a victim turned murderer alongside Sean Faris.

* A Hollywood Love Story, where he played the role of Terry Donnellan, a soap producer with questionable methods.

Rob attended the High School of Performing Arts and began his career by working in the Off Off Broadway theatre scene. One of these productions, NYC Street Show, moved to an Off B'way theatre, The Actors Playhouse, and an agent (Monty Silver) who saw him in that production represented him on getting cast as the understudy in a production of Landscape of the Body at the NY Public theatre's Newmann Theatre, with Shirley Knight & F. Murray Abraham.

When he was asked to replace in the juvenile lead role in Landscape, a few agents from the Bloom Agency attended and the next day was signed with J. Michael Bloom Agency's Legit Dept. Soon after, he was cast and made his Broadway debut, as a replacement in the TONY Award/Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shadow Box at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre.

Following this, he made his film debut in Voices for MGM Studios as Demetrius, with Barry Miller. Next, a workshop production of Nite Lites (Sleeparound Town) at the Public Theatre, under the direction of Wilford Leach. Joseph Papp & his artistic team were interested in the cast & creative team doing this as a main-stage production and encouraged the writer to further develop the piece.

Rob was then offered the role, again, in The Shadow Box under the direction of Richard Chamberlain at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, Mass. He was then cast in an Off B'way production of Funeral March for a One Man Band at Westbeth Theatre (with Dwight Schultz) playing Tiny, who had terminal cancer (and this was a musical!).

Then, he went on to study Stella Adler with Mary Carver, Strasberg's Method with Ed Kovens, and finally, Sanford Meisner's work with James Price, Kathryn Gately, and Fred Kareman, respectively.

Career

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1983
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1979
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