Biography
Date of Birth
21 December 1988, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name
Robert Patrick Amell
Nickname
Hollywood
Picky
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Mini Biography
Along with his sister, Robbie Amell started acting when he was just six years old. At sixteen, he started to land theater roles at Lawrence Park Stage in plays such as Louis and Dave, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Importance of Being Earnest. The experience brought Robbie to realize that he wanted to pursue a career in acting. Shortly after choosing to follow acting, he booked the part of Daniel Murtaugh in the major motion picture Cheaper by the Dozen 2, headed by names such as Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling and - of whom he played the son - Eugene Levy and Carmen Electra.
Robbie was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Jo (Burden) and Rob Amell, who work in custom jewelry. His first cousin is actor Stephen Amell. As it seems is the habit of Canadians, Robbie has played hockey since he was a child. He also takes Muay Thai and break dancing lessons.
Trivia
Graduated Armour Heights Public School in 2000.
Has twice been involved in projects with the name "Scooby", in which he played "Fred" of the Mystery Gang, and appeared in How I Met Your Mother (2005), as a character named "Scooby", who had many dog-like qualities.
Younger cousin of Stephen Amell, star of CW's Arrow (2012).
Got engaged to girlfriend of six years, actress Italia Ricci, on August 20, 2014.
Has been in The Hunters (2013) and The Tomorrow People (2013) (2013-14), with Alexa PenaVega.
His maternal step-great-grandfather, Henry John "Hank" Burden, was a World War I flying ace who was officially credited with 16 victories; Henry was a grandson of Timothy Eaton (1834-1907), the Northern Irish immigrant who founded the famous Canadian store Eaton's in Toronto in 1869.
He is of English, Scottish, German, Irish, one sixteenth French-Canadian, and more distant Welsh and Dutch, descent. His family's surname, "Amell", was spelled "Hamel" several generations back, and originates in France.
Robbie's great-great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Devitt, was Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, while Robbie's great-great-grandfather, Louis Jacob Breithaupt, was a manufacturer and political figure in Ontario, who was Mayor of Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener, Ontario), as was Louis's own father. Robbie's great-great-uncle, Louis's son Louis Orville Breithaupt, was an MP in the Canadian Parliament, and then a Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1952 to 1957.
Father, with wife Italia Ricci, of son Robert Amell (V) (b. September 12, 2019).
He and his wife Italia Ricci became American citizens in 2020.
First cousin, twice removed, of Progressive Conservative politician Bill Davis, who was Premier of Ontario, from March 1, 1971 to February 8, 1985. Robbie's paternal great-great-grandparents, John William Hewetson and Eliza Jackson, were also Bill's maternal grandparents.
Quotes
My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.
It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.
I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
