Rob Locke - British TV Host, Actor, Voice-Over Artist

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Rob Locke has hosted over 7000 hours of broadcast TV (specializing in highly complex, LIVE, unscripted, multi-camera, studio and location shows). He has also played dozens of main character roles in scripted television, voice-over and film...

BIOGRAPHY

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Rob was born in England and grew up in the nation's capital, London. He was bitten by the "acting bug" during his first school play, at the tender age of six. He continued performing regularly in Youth Theater until the age of eighteen, when he left school and started working professionally in the television industry.

In 1992 Rob found his calling in children's TV. For the ensuing five years he was a series regular on five scripted shows for The Children's Channel (TCC), Britain's first dedicated network for kids, where he also hosted live interstitial programs and game show segments. In 1996 he guest-starred on Words and Pictures (one of the BBC's longest-running children's TV series), alongside former Doctor Who companion Sophie Aldred, with whom he'd worked for several years at The Children's Channel.

Rob's career escalated rapidly, with his unique brand of broadcasting spawning his own regional talk show called The Locke Exchange, alongside a daytime current affairs show and late night music series, each of which he produced and hosted from 1998 to 1999. This was in addition to seven years as one of Britain's most venerated QVC Hosts between 1996 and 2002.

Since immigrating to the USA in 2003, Rob has appeared in a long list of TV, film and commercial projects, including Team Butkus Life Performance (a talk show he developed and co-hosted with NFL Hall-of-Fame legend Dick Butkus in 2006). In 2007 Rob returned to live television as a prime-time Host on GemsTV, where the network's national audience dubbed him "the most entertaining Host on television."

In the latter part of 2008, Rob finally fulfilled his long-term objective of living and working in Los Angeles. Since moving to America's entertainment capital he has landed numerous roles. These include guest-starring on Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die, making his film debut in the independent feature Cinema Salvation, playing the lead in GSN's Instant Recall pilot, and starring as Niles (reality TV's first character Host) in the highly publicized 2009 VH1 series Megan Wants a Millionaire.

Most recently in 2010, Rob hosted a pilot for the poker-based game show Call the Floorman, played a BP Executive in a comedy skit on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and narrated the VH1 series You're Cut Off!