Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson portrayed acerbic Dunder Mifflin employee Darryl Philbin on NBC's Primetime Emmy Award-winning The Office for nine seasons. Since then, Robinson  starred as a musician-turned-middle-school-music-teacher in the sitcom Mr. Robinson.

Before deciding to pursue a comedy career, Robinson was a K-8 teacher in the Chicago public school system. He earned an undergraduate degree from Illinois State University and a master's of education from St. Xavier University. He discovered his love of acting and comedy when he joined Chicago's famed The Second City.

He first made his mark on the comedy circuit at the 1998 Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. He won the Oakland Comedy Festival Awards and the Miller Genuine Draft Comedy Search, and then went on to perform his act on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Real Time with Bill Maher. Now headlining venues and festivals across the country, Robinson performs a solo act, as well as full sets with his band The Nasty Delicious, uniting comedy with his finesse at the piano.
His stand-up prowess and success with The Office spun Robinson into Judd Apatow's orbit, with memorable straight-man roles in Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, as well as a role in Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

In 2013, he took on his first leading role in Peeples, for producer Tyler Perry. Playing a pushy boyfriend, Robinson surprises his fiancée-to-be (Kerry Washington) at her family's home. He discovers that the family is not only surprised to see him, but has never even heard of him.
Robinson played himself as part of the Hollywood juggernaut that makes up the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg comedy world in This Is the End. With the likes of Rogen, James Franco, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Emma Watson, Danny McBride and a slew of others, the film imagines what would happen when celebrities attending a party at Franco's house are faced with the apocalypse.

Robinson joined Rob Corddry, Clark Duke and new cast member Adam Scott in filming the sequel to the 2010 ensemble comedy Hot Tub Time Machine, for director Steve Pink. The original story follows three adult men (Corddry, Robinson and John Cusack) as they visit the hot tub where they once partied, discover it is now a time machine and travel back to their raunchy heyday in the mid-1980s.

Robinson's additional film and television highlights include a cameo as a Tuskegee Airman in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; frequent appearances on McBride's series Eastbound & Down; and voice roles of several characters for The Cleveland Show. Robinson joined the voice cast of Shrek Forever After as Cookie, a new member of the ogre clan and the camp's resident chef. He also voiced a character in Escape from Planet Earth in 2013.

Robinson's additional credits include the films Father of Invention, with Kevin Spacey and Camilla Belle; The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, with Jeremy Piven; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Miss March; and Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girl. His television appearances include Friends, The Bernie Mac Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Robinson portrayed a preacher in the short Prop 8: The Musical, with Jack Black, John C. Reilly and Neil Patrick Harris.

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