Patrick Robinson (born 6 November 1963)[1] is a British actor best known for his work in the long-running medical drama series Casualty on BBC One.
The cousin of footballer and TV personality Ian Wright,[3] Robinson was offered a trial at Southampton F.C., which he turned down to attend additional drama classes.
[2] On graduation he started his career in theatre, and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, spending two seasons in Stratford-upon-Avon and then two in London.
[2] Robinson left the RSC to join the cast of Casualty as the character Martin "Ash" Ashford, a nurse, beginning in 1990.
Robinson played CIA agent Leon Washington in the 2003 action film Belly of the Beast, alongside Steven Seagal.
In late 2007, he played former slave Thomas Peters who went on to become a leader in Sierra Leone, in a stage adaptation of Rough Crossings by historian Simon Schama at the Liverpool Playhouse.
In June 2020 Robinson played Anthony Bryan in Sitting in Limbo, a feature-length factual BBC One drama about the Windrush scandal.