Rob Stewart (actor)

Rob Stewart
Stewart in Belgrade on 3 June 2009.
Born	(1961-07-23) 23 July 1961 (age 63) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Celiana Stewart

Rob Stewart (born 23 July 1961) is a Canadian actor, 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.

Stewart was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,^[1] He was raised in Bramalea, a neighbourhood in Brampton, Ontario. 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.^[2]

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.^[2] In the summers, he performed stunts and acrobatics at Canada's Wonderland amusement park.^{[citation needed]}

Throughout his career he has guest-starred in numerous television roles. One of his early notable roles was Nick Slaughter on Tropical Heat.^[3] Stewart was one of the leads in the television show Peter Benchley's Amazon.^[4] In 2007 he began playing the male lead in Painkiller Jane that ran for 22 episodes on the Sci Fi Channel.^[2]

Stewart played a major recurring character, Roan, in the CW hit action television series Nikita for its first two seasons.^[5] 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.^[6] This was followed by an appearance in two episodes of the long-running CBC Television series Heartland.^[7]

Airing on the CW, he appeared in six episodes of Beauty & the Beast as the character Mr. Chandler.^[8] 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 Slaughter Nick for President was released.^[3] The film follows Stewart on his 2009 trip to Serbia, where Tropical Heat achieved notable popularity in the 1990s.^[9] The same year, he was cast in Suits as corporate raider Tony Gionopoulos, appearing in five episodes.^[10]

From 2015 to 2019, Stewart played Khlyen, a significant recurring character in Killjoys.^[11]

Stewart met his wife Celiana Stewart during the first season of Tropical Heat. He has one son.^{[citation needed]} Since 2001, he has resided in Canada.^[12]

• Rob Stewart at IMDb