Biography for
Robby Benson More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

21 January 1956, Dallas, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Robin David Segal

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse

Karla DeVito

(11 July 1982 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Benson is his mother's maiden name.

He had heart valve surgery in October 1984.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28. [1976]

Son of Jerry Segal and Ann Benson.

Brother of Shelli Segal, designer for the Laundry clothing line (Laundry by Shelli Segal).

Father, with Karla DeVito, of daughter Lyric Benson and son Zephyr Benson.

In Beauty and the Beast (1991), his voice was altered by the growls of lions and panthers.

Childhood friend of Tod Scott Brody.

He has worked in television or on a movie every year of his life from 1971-2004.

Appeared opposite Jane Withers in one of her Josephine the Plumber commercials for Comet Cleanser in the late 1960s.

Personal Quotes

I was into show business straight from the womb.

[on the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast] One of my favorite things to say is that he's a tortured soul. There's so much going on inside of him that he's very complicated. He wants to try and do what's right and he's angry at himself allot.