Robert John Appleby, better known by the stage name Robert Kazinsky, is an English actor and model[citation needed]. He is best known for his appearances as Casper Rose in the Sky One drama Dream Team, Sean Slater in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, Chuck Hansen in Pacific Rim, and Macklyn Warlow in the sixth season of HBO\'s True Blood in 2013. In 2016, he played the orc warchief Orgrim Doomhammer in Warcraft and had the lead role in the U.S. Fox TV series Second Chance.\n', '

Kazinsky was born Robert John Appleby in Haywards Heath, the son of Phyllis and Paul Appleby. He grew up in Brighton. He has an older brother, Michael. Kazinsky is Jewish. His parents are descended from immigrants from Poland and Russia. He is a fluent speaker of Hebrew. Kazinsky was educated at Hove Park School in Hove, from 1995 to 2000. He appeared in their productions of Bugsy Malone and A Midsummer Night\'s Dream. Kazinsky trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting from September 2002 to July 2005. He took his grandfather\'s middle name as his stage name.\n', '

Kazinsky appeared in Israeli television commercials before he started acting. He made his acting debut in 2005, when he had a guest role in an episode of the CBBC children\'s programme The Basil Brush Show, playing a character named Sven Garley. Kazinsky then got a role in Sky One\'s football drama TV series Dream Team, in which he played Casper Rose from late 2005 to 2006, when he was killed off towards the end of the ninth series after the actor announced his intention to leave.\n', '

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