Robin Lord Taylor

Robin Lord Taylor (born June 4, 1978) and Mary Susan (née Stamy) Taylor. He attended Solon High School and Northwestern University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in theatre in 2000. While at Northwestern, his roommate was actor Billy Eichner.

Career Taylor has appeared in several television series, such as The Walking Dead, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife and Person of Interest. He had a recurring role as "Darrell, the Late Show page with the fake British accent" on Late Show with David Letterman.

Taylor was featured in Spike Lee's segment "Jesus Children of America" of the 2005 anthology film on the theme of childhood and exploitation All the Invisible Children (Venice Film Festival), The House is Burning (produced by Wim Wenders (Cannes Film Festival), Pitch (Cannes Film Festival), Kevin Connolly's Gardener of Eden (Tribeca Film Festival) and Assassination of a High School President (Sundance Film Festival).

Taylor co-created and co-starred in Creation Nation: A Live Talk Show with Billy Eichner, which they performed at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and throughout New York City and Los Angeles. He has also appeared onstage in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, The Shooting Stage, Henry IV and No. 11 Blue and White, as well as numerous productions in Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater.

Taylor played Abernathy Darwin Dunlap in Accepted. He appeared in such independent films as Would You Rather, Cold Comes the Night, and Another Earth, the last of which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. His performance as Cobblepot has been described by Esquire as a "standout performance of the first episode [...], disarming and multilayered", by The Wall Street Journal as "a passionate performance ... [that] steals the show", and as "spectacularly cast as the Penguin".

In February 2019, it was announced that Taylor had been cast in the recurring role of Will Bettelheim on the second season of the Netflix thriller series You.

From 2021 to 2022, Taylor also appeared in Kevin Can F**k Himself in the recurring role of Nick, a restaurant worker, across both seasons of the show.

Personal life As of 2000, Taylor lived in Manhattan.

In a November 2014 Glamour interview, Taylor was asked, "I notice you are wearing a wedding ring on your ring finger. Are you married?" To which he responded, "I am married! I like to keep it private, but I've been married for over three years, and we've been together for 10½ years. No kids. No kids yet!"

In March 2015, Slate noted Taylor in an article discussing "Several actors who are openly gay or who have been cast in multiple straight or bisexual roles and the typecasting of gay roles". Taylor, himself, added: "I feel like the landscape has totally changed. Regardless of sexual preference, it's more that as a character actor, the less I reveal about myself, the better. My favorite actors are the ones I know least about." In April 2015, Taylor openly identified as gay on episode 672 of The Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick. In honor of National Coming Out Day in October 2019, Taylor revealed on Instagram that he had been out as gay for 22 years and encouraged followers to donate to the non-profit Rainbow Railroad.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2005 Jesus Children of America Mike Short film; credited as Robin Taylor 2006 Pitch Pete The House is Burning Phil Credited as Robin Taylor Accepted Abernathy Darwin Dunlap 2008 Assassination of a High School President Alex Schneider Credited as Robin Taylor August Guy Employee 2009 Last Day of Summer Jason Credited as Robin Taylor 2010 Step Up 3D Punk Kid 2011 Return Vonnie Credited as Robin Taylor Another Earth Jeff Williams The Melancholy Fantastic Dukken Credited as Robin Taylor 2012 Would You Rather Julian 2013 Cold Comes the Night Quincy 2016 Full Dress Noah 2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Administrator The Long Home Lipscomb The Mandela Effect Matt 2020 Lost & Found Randy Short film 2021 Skeletons Christopher

Television Year Title Role Notes 2005 Law & Order Jared Weston Episode: "Sects"; credited as Robin L. Taylor 2008 Life on Mars Jimmy Episode: "My Maharishi Is Bigger Than Your Maharishi" Law & Order Dale Episode: "Personae Non Grata"; credited as Robin L. Taylor 2010 Law & Order Cedric Stuber Episode: "Innocence" 2012 Person of Interest Ajax Episode: "Blue Code" The Good Wife Brock Dalyndro Episode: "Battle of the Proxies" 2013 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dylan Fuller Episode: "Traumatic Wound" The Walking Dead Sam Episodes: "Indifference", "No Sanctuary" 2014 Taxi Brooklyn Sami Episode: "Precious Cargo" 2014–2019 Gotham Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin Main role 2019, 2025 You Will Bettelheim Recurring role (season 2)Guest role (Season 5) 2021 Kevin Can F**k Himself Nick Recurring role 2022 Law & Order: Organized Crime Sebastian McClane 2025 FBI Scott Collins Episode: "Startup"

Video game Year Title Role Notes 2016 Dishonored 2 The Outsider 2017 Dishonored: Death of the Outsider