Robert John Appleby, known professionally as Robert Kazinsky, is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Casper Rose in the Sky One drama Dream Team, the Don in Captain Marvel, Sean Slater in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Chuck Hansen in Pacific Rim, and Macklyn Warlow in the sixth season of HBO's True Blood. In 2016, he played Orgrim Doomhammer in Warcraft and Jimmy Pritchard in the Fox television series Second Chance.
Kazinsky was born Robert John Appleby in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. His parents are Phyllis and Paul Appleby. He grew up in Brighton and has an older brother, Michael. Kazinsky is Jewish. His parents are descended from immigrants from Poland and Russia. He is also 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.