Born in Edinburgh from working class stock with his father being a docker and mother a cleaner, Robert Robertson grew up in the Broughton area of Edinburgh which was a well to do area hub of community where people knew each other and lived life through difficult times during the Thatcher era. Unemployment was rife and times were hard especially when Robert or 'Bobby' as he is known' father succumbed to it back in 1990. Watching films was what Bobby enjoyed doing most especially through a difficult childhood and credits countryman Sean Connery, Harrison Ford and Robert De Niro for wanting to be an actor. Having brief stints in drama school and acting school in Edinburgh led to Bobby getting roles in theater where it all started, taking the male lead in musical 'Gypsy', gritty drama 'The Twelve Angry Men' and 'The Office Party' also playing Albert Einstein in 'Dynamo Of the 21st Century' time traveling to meet one of his heroes James Clerk Maxwell. TV and film work were quite hard to come by as the theater work continued and then extras work on series such as 'Taggart' and 'Rebus' came along before Bobby started appearing in commercials for companies such as JET2.COM. Voice over work on TV and radio also become an extra source of income before the film work came knocking, in horror 'Bridal Fever', 'The Second Life Club' and 'Bloods A Rover'.