Robert Englund is an American actor and director born on June 6, 1947 in Glendale, California. He is widely known for his character Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series; He is considered one of the most well-known faces of horror cinema.
From theater to screen
He started acting at a young age, working in children's theatre. During his college years, he studied at UCLA, then studied at Meadow Brook Theater at Oakland University in Michigan. After performing in Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw plays in regional theaters for a few years, he moved to cinema in 1974 with Buster and Billie.
Englund, who appeared in supporting roles for a long time, attracted attention with his role as Willie, one of the alien visitors who joined the resistance, in the science fiction miniseries V, released in 1983.
Freddy Krueger and beyond
In 1984, he played Freddy Krueger, who hunts his victims in dreams, in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street. His character appeared in the 2003 film Freddy vs. He has appeared in eight feature films until Jason; He appeared on the screen with the same role in the TV series Freddy's Nightmares, which was broadcast between 1988 and 1990. He also went behind the camera and directed the films 976-EVIL in 1988 and Killer Pad in 2008.
He took part in more than two hundred cinema and television productions throughout his career; He frequently worked as a guest actor in TV series and as a voice actor in animations. In 2022, he played Victor Creel in the fourth season of Stranger Things. His life and career were the subject of the documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, released in 2023. On October 31, 2025, on Halloween day, a star in his name was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
