Education
He then graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Artist
He then graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Artist
Robinson was the fifth of seven children born to a Jamaican-immigrant electrician father and his English-born wife. Robinson joined the South East London School Drama Group aged 14. The cousin of football player and television personality Ian Wright, Robinson was offered a trial at Southampton F.C., which he turned down to attend additional drama classes.
After studying architecture for a year, he left to join the Robert Stigwood organisation as a messenger boy.
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. He left the Royal Society of Chemistry to join the cast of Casualty in the character of Martin "Ash" Ashford, from 1990 to 1996.
After leaving the series, he appeared as Central Intelligence Agency 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.
From 2008 he appeared as Detective Constable Jacob Banks in the Independent Television police drama The Bill.
In 2009 he participated in Let"s Dance for Comic Relief with Lisa Maxwell dancing a routine based on Riverdance. In March 2011, he was appearing as a German cavalry officer "Friedrich" in the New London Theatre production of War Horse. On 25 January 2013 it was announced that Robinson would be returning to Casualty to reprise his role as Martin "Ash" Ashford but as a locum consultant.
Since September 2013, Patrick has been participating in the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.
