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Robert Benedict
Benedict at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	Robert Patrick Benedict (1970-09-21) September 21, 1970 (age 54) Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film, stage, television actor, musician, God
Spouse	Mollie Benedict
Children	Calvin Benedict, Audrey Benedict
Relatives	Amy Benedict (sister)

Robert Patrick Benedict (born September 21, 1970) is an American stage, film and television actor. He also sings in the band Louden Swain. He is best known for his work on the television series Supernatural, Threshold, Felicity and the comedy film Waiting....

Biography

Benedict was born in Columbia, Missouri. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's degree in Performance Studies. Benedict is the front man and guitar player in the Los Angeles band Louden Swain, which completed its sixth album "Sky Alive" in 2014. His sister, Amy Benedict, is also an actress.

Career

In CBS's Threshold Benedict played physicist Lucas Pegg, member of a secret government team investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species. In the critically acclaimed WB series Felicity he appeared as Felicity Porter's dorm mate, Richard Coad. In seasons 4, 5, 10, and 11 of Supernatural he plays a writer, Chuck Shurley, previously thought to be a prophet of the lord but later revealed to be God. On Alias Benedict was Sydney Bristow's short-term CIA partner, Brodien. Additional television series credits include Birds of Prey and Come to Papa, with guest appearances on NCIS, Monk, Medium, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Snoops, Burn Notice, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

More recent television credits include a recurring role as the Invisible Prince in Fox's Touch. He also appeared as the irreverent power agent Jeremy Berger in the Starz Original comedy series Head Case. Other recent guest star appearances are NCIS: Los Angeles, Shameless, Psych and Law and Order: Los Angeles.

His feature film credits include A Little Help, with Jenna Fischer, State of Play with Russell Crowe, Waiting..., with Ryan Reynolds, Still Waiting..., Kicking & Screaming, with Will Ferrell, Group Sex, Say Goodnight with Aaron Paul, Two Days, with Paul Rudd, The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, starring Rosario Dawson, and Not Another Teen Movie. Benedict has also done some voice acting work. Most notably voicing the character Vin, in the video games Jak II and Jak 3.

In May 2010 Benedict played Steve Burke in the season seven finale of Cold Case in episode "Almost Paradise".

He recently co-wrote and starred in the independent short film Lifetripper, which made its debut at the LA Short Film Festival.

He also co-wrote and played Miles Davis-Davidson in the Unauthorized Hangover 2 Documentary, which was featured on the DVD of the Hangover 2.

In 2016 he returned to Supernatural for four episodes. At the end of the episode "Don't Call Me Shurley", Benedict played a cover of "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)".

He is also writing and co-producing a web series called Kings of Con with friend and fellow actor Richard Speight Jr This will air on https://www.comic-conhq.com/

Personal Life

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mollie Benedict, their son Calvin and daughter Audrey.

Stroke

In October 2013, Rob suffered a stroke at the Toronto Supernatural convention. Another actor and friend Richard Speight Jr. brought him to the hospital, where he remained for ten days until he was transferred to a hospital in Los Angeles. Together Richard and Rob established a t-shirt campaign "Getting By With a Little Help", and the proceeds were donated to the National Stroke Association.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1995	Run a Mile in My Shoes (short)	Unknown
1999	Tequila Body Shots	Ted
1999	Bad City Blues	Tommy
2001	Not Another Teen Movie	Preston Wasserstein
2002	The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest	Willy
2002	The Naked run	Lancer Higgins
2002	American Pi	Max
2003	Two Days	Scott
2003	My Dinner With Jimi	Donovan
2005	Overachievers	Ben Martan
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Beantown Employees
2005	Waiting...	Calvin
2007	Sex and Death 101	Bow-Tie Bob
2008	Say Goodnight	Leroy
2009	Call Back	Levi
2009	State of Play (film)	Milt
2010	A Little Help	Paul Helms
2010	Arts & Crafts	Rob
2010	Group Sex	Donny
2011	Lifetripper	Stan Norman
2012	The Case of the Missing Garden Gnome (short)	Seamus
2012	Sexy Daddy
2013	Grow	Unknown
2013	The Sidekick	Max McCabe
2015	Bad, Bad Men	Ken

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Beverly Hills, 90210	Student	1 episode
1997	Alright Already	Jason	1 episode
1998	Pacific Blue	Craig	1 episode
1999	Wasteland	Unknown	1 episode
1998-2002	Felicity	Richard Coad	36 episodes
2000	Snoops	Marv	1 episode
2000	Chicago Hope	Dr. Peter Ball	2 episodes
2000	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Jape	2 episodes
2000	Opposite Sex	Cecil Livengood	1 episode
2000	Mysterious Ways	Warren	1 episode
2002	NYPD Blue	Jeff Gamble	1 episode
2002-2003	Birds of Prey	Gibson Kafka	4 episodes
2004	Come to Papa	Judah	4 episodes
2005	NCIS	Aaron Alan Wright	1 episode
2005	Medium	Male Passenger	1 episode
2005	Alias	Brodien	2 episodes
2005	Monk	Jonathan Davenport	1 episode
2005-2006	Threshold	Lucas Pegg	13 episodes
2008	Dirt	Keith Straub	1 episode
2008	House	Dr. Jaime Conway	1 episode
2008	Burn Notice	Eddie Ash	1 episode
2008-2009	Head Case	Jeremy Berger	21 episodes
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Brian Morley	1 episode
2009-2016	Supernatural	Chuck Shurley/Carver Edlund God	12 episodes
2010	'Til Death	Rainbow	1 episode
2010	Cold Case	Steve Burke '89	1 episode
2010	Law & Order: LA	Adam Yarborough	1 episode
2011	Svetlana	Unknown	1 episode
2012	Shameless	Dr. Noah Pitts	1 episode
2012	Psych	Mandlebaum	1 episode
2012	NCIS: Los Angeles	Jarrod Prodeman	1 episode
2012	Touch	Walt King, The Invisible Prince	2 episodes
2013	The Mentalist	Paul Friedman	1 episode
2013	1600 Penn	Skeptic	1 episode
2013	Susanna	Peter	6 episodes
2013	Franklin & Bash	Sandy Hall	2 episodes
2015	The Hillywood Show	Cain	1 episode: Supernatural Parody
2015	Documentary Now!	Larry Fein	1 episode
2015	Masters of Sex	Jonathan Laurents	3 episodes

References

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External links

Rob Benedict at IMDb
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Louden Swain
CBS Threshold - Rob Benedict webpage
Interview Rob Benedict with www.mycoven.com Nov. 2011

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