Robert Jarvis Jr.
- Actor
Tall, slender youthful actor featured in leading and supporting roles
in feature length films and shorts. Robert Jarvis Jr. born in Norfolk,
Virginia is the oldest of four children. After graduating from high
school, Robert was awarded a football scholarship to William Penn
University in Iowa where he planned on transferring from after two
years to pursue training in Industrial Labor Relations. However, after
auditioning for the first play of his life as a sophomore he was cast
in the lead role. From here he would go on to star in or be featured in
close to 20 stage productions before pursuing a career in journalism.He
briefly studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San
Francisco California as part of a summer program. During his time as a
journalist he focused on telling narrative news magazine type stories
running features on Olympic hopefuls and the 2008 presidential
campaign. During this time period he would conduct one-on-one
interviews with both John McCain and future president Barack Obama. As
he believes God would have it, he was called back into the acting world
while auditioning as a singer for a national talent search. During this
time he was attending graduate school for a masters degree in marriage
counseling, but these plans were put on hold as his professional career
has started to take off. During the acting competition he was awarded a
scholarship to the New York Film Academy.