Robbie Daymond

Robert Daymond Howard was born on March 11th, 1982, in the town of Chesterfield, Mo. His mother Laura Marks and biological father Robert Niles lived in Warrenton, Missouri in a home on Robbie's grandparent's estate. It was in this small town that Robbie would spend the first twelve years of his life. Robbie's father left when he was still an infant, and for ten years Laura raised him with the help of her parents, Marvin and Mary Marks. Like any typical country boy he enjoyed hunting, fishing, sports, and playing with nearby friends in the woods and on the lake of the Mark's estate. Always outgoing, he soon developed an interest in acting and music. Robbie's mother, a musician herself, encouraged him. In 1992 he preformed in his first professional play "On Golden Pond" at the Belle Starr Playhouse; soon after all other actives took a backseat to theater. In 1993 Robbie's mother got remarried to Gregory Howard and in 1995 Greg officially adopted Robbie at age 13, changing his name from Robert Daymond Niles to Robert Daymond Howard. That same year the family moved to St. Charles Mo. where Robbie would continue acting though his formative years. Though he attempted to be as active in his high school theater as possible, Robbie dedicated most of his time to professional, and college productions. In 2000, Robert was accepted into the Webster University Theater Conservatory were he would spend 2 years. His rebellions nature led him to academic difficulties and eventually he was put on departmental probation. Determined not to fail he worked diligently and was released from probation and invited back to attend the third year. But Robbie still had fundamental problems with Webster U's teaching methods and transferred to the more progressive, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There he would flourish in his craft and graduate with a BA in theatre performance in 2004. Fascinated with the classics and the physical nature of acting be continued his education in the UNLV masters program. From 2004 to 2007 he would perform in many plays at the NCT, a professional theater connected to the University, all while teaching acting, movement, voice, and speech to the undergraduate theater majors. During the course of his entire academic history, he would spend each summer performing in summer stock, honing his acting in every genre, from Shakespeare to musicals. With a class of thirteen, Robbie would graduate UNLV in 2007 with a Master's degree in Acting. In Aug 2007 Robbie would move to LA to continue to pursue his acting career. In his first 3 years in LA, while building his acting career, Robbie worked in commercials, television and independent film and had side-jobs as a teacher at the New York Film Academy, bartender and communications director at the Quixote Studios. It wasn't long before he discovered his passion and aptitude for the craft of voice over. In 2010, Robbie gave up his security jobs and began acting full-time as a Voice Artist.

Robbie resides in Sherman Oaks, where he is still dating his longtime girlfriend Megan Strand, a public relations adviser and fitness instructor. In addition to voice over, Robbie also pursues side projects in live performance, writing & independent animation.

## Trivia

Both parents are accomplished athletes and scholars. Mother, Laura, holds a PhD in philosophy. Father, Greg, is a five-time Iron Man.

Met best friend Justin Marcos in high school, because they were often mistaken for one another. They sought each other out after several cases of mistaken identity.

He is an avid video game player and fan.

As of 2007, was the youngest instructor ever to teach at the UNLV theater department at age 22.

Because of his dominate Native American features and skin tone, Robbie has always been curious about his Indigenous heritage, having been told from a young age that he was 1/5th Native. DNA testing revealed Robbie is roughly 15% Native (Southwestern Texas). 75% British, 5% Portuguese, 5% unknown, corroborating his estranged family's oral history.

Auditioning and working in Hollywood [November 2007]

Current English voice of Tuxedo Mask in Sailor Moon (1992).

He is the second person to play the roles of both Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon and Peter Parker/Spider-Man after Rino Romano, who previously portrayed Tuxedo Mask in several early episodes of DIC's English dub of Sailor Moon, and portrayed Spider-Man in the animated series Spider-Man Unlimited as well as the 2000 video game and its 2001 sequel Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.

Robbie reprises the role of Spider-man in over a dozen projects including a 5 yr run in the Marvel Animated Universe (Marvel's Spider-man, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers Assemble, Maximum Venom), Marvel Disney Live, Disney Parks, Marvel Cruises, Marvel Battle Lines, Marvel Disk Wars, Lego Marvel Spider-man, Marvel Future Avengers & Marvel vs Capcom Infinite. [May 2020]

His first daughter, Lynnyx Lola Ann Howard, was born on June 7, 2018.