As the following decade attests, the public service’s loss has been the entertainment industry’s gain.Ĭollins landed the role of Mufasa in the stage production of The Lion King before he’d graduated from NIDA. Before he graduated, he’d landed the role of Mufasa in the stage production of The Lion King. He auditioned for NIDA, was accepted and his family relocated to Sydney, living in the home of friend Chips Mackinolty in what Collins describes as one of the significant “acts of kindness” that has enabled his career to flourish. There were radio plays, Centrelink training videos and an amateur production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, during which the director suggested that maybe he should pursue this acting business. After he attended an acting workshop, one thing led to another. I got a business degree and I was doing a nine-to-five job involving music copywriting.” What followed exhibits a pattern of organic growth that Collins says characterises his trajectory. Until then, he says, “I was on track to be a public servant in the Northern Territory. He didn’t even commit to acting until he was in his early 30s and a married father of three.
Rob Collins plays campaigner Charlie in Total Control: “Politically, he’s really sharp.” Credit:John Plattĭespite conveying the impression of a steady, well-planned ascent, Collins’ career hasn’t been conventional. He’s now in South Australia, playing one of the leads in Warwick Thornton’s vampire thriller Firebite.
And he found time to shoot Leah Purcell’s film The Drover’s Wife as well as Mark Wahlberg’s Arthur the King in the US. He also starred as the dedicated Dr Wayne in RFDS. He’s returned to the role of Charlie, the brother of novice Indigenous politician Alex Irving (Deborah Mailman), for the second season of the socio-political drama Total Control. In a testament to his magnetism on-screen and perceived value to a production, as the industry has been buffeted by pandemic-related uncertainty in the last 18 months, he’s been constantly in demand. It was also apparent when he played the authoritative yet arrogant community leader in the dystopian thriller Cleverman and a menacing step-father in the sci-fi drama Glitch. It shone through in his first major role as a charming and disarming celebrity chef and one point in the romantic triangle of The Wrong Girl (2016). As he’s become a familiar face on TV over the past few years, Rob Collins has radiated leading-man charisma.
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