Rob Stewart (actor)

Rob Stewart
Stewart in Belgrade on 3 June 2009.
Born	(1961-07-23) 23 July 1961 (age 60) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Years active	1991 – present
Spouse(s)	Celiana Stewart

Rob Stewart (born 23 July 1961) is a Canadian actor born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, known for the lead role of Nick Slaughter in the action-comedy television series Tropical Heat, and his recurring roles as Roan in Nikita and Khlyen in Killjoys.

Early life[]

Stewart was raised in Bramalea, a neighbourhood in the city of Brampton. He enjoyed playing hockey and dreamt of becoming a professional. At the age of 17, he sustained an injury that caused him to lose a kidney and subsequently turn down a number of athletic scholarships that had been offered to him.^[1]

He enrolled at the University of Waterloo where he majored in Latin and English. In order to put himself through university, he sang and played the guitar at local restaurants.^[1] In the summers, he did stunts and acrobatics at Canada's Wonderland amusement park.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Throughout his career he has guest starred in numerous television roles. One of his early notable roles was Nick Slaughter on Tropical Heat.^[2] Stewart was one of the leads in the television show Peter Benchley's Amazon.^[3] In 2007 he began playing the male lead in Painkiller Jane that ran for twenty two episodes on the Sci Fi Channel.^[1]

Stewart played a major recurring character, Roan, in the CW hit action television series Nikita for its first two seasons.^[4] Towards the end of his run on Nikita he also had a minor role of an alcoholic movie producer over a few episodes of the Canadian series The L.A. Complex that depicts the lives of young Canadian actors struggling for work in Los Angeles.^[5] This was followed by an appearance in two episodes of the long-running CBC Television series Heartland.^[6]

Airing on the CW, he appeared in six episodes of Beauty & the Beast as the character Mr. Chandler.^[7] Soon after, Stewart appeared in an episode of the Syfy television series Defiance which was shot in his hometown Toronto, followed by another one-episode role – this time on the Canadian series Cracked.

In 2013, the documentary entitled Slaughter Nick for President was released.^[2] The film follows Stewart on his 2009 trip to Serbia, where Tropical Heat achieved notable popularity in the 1990s.^[8] The same year, he was cast in Suits as corporate raider Tony Gionopoulos, appearing in 5 episodes.^[9]

From 2015 to 2019, Stewart played Khlyen, a significant recurring character in Killjoys.^[10]

Personal life[]

Stewart met his wife Celiana Stewart in Mexico during the first season of Tropical Heat. He has one son.^{[citation needed]} Since 2001, he has resided in Canada.^[11]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

References[]

External links[]

• Rob Stewart at IMDb