Robert Stephen "Robbie" Jarvis (born 7 May 1986) is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor

Actor

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 who played young James Potter, Harry Potter

Harry Potter (character)

Harry James Potter is the title character and main protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard...

's father, in the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Michael Goldenberg and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...

(2007).

In 2006 he made a brief appearance in Nickelodeon show Genie In The House

Genie In The House

Genie in the House is a British situation comedy broadcast on Nickelodeon about a widowed father with two teenage daughters who find a dusty old golden lamp while exploring the loft of their new home. A quick rub of the lamp releases Adil, a trainee genie from Balamkadaar who has been confined to...

and did some voice work for the acclaimed film The History Boys

The History Boys (film)

The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adapted by Alan Bennett from his play of the same name, which won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play...

. He has also guest starred in episodes of Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...

for the BBC and ITV's Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police proceduraltelevision drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The...

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Filmography

• Genie In The House (2006), Billy - "Out of Our Minds"
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Michael Goldenberg and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...
  
  (2007), Teenage James Potter
• Waking The Dead - "Double Bind"
  Waking the Dead (TV series)
  Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
  
   (2007), Young Chris Lennon
• Trial & Retribution XVII: Conviction
  Trial & Retribution
  Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police proceduraltelevision drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The...
  
  (2008), Mark
• The Space You Leave aka Sea Change (2008), Rupert
• Coming Back (2009), Steve
• The Real Midnight Express
  Banged Up Abroad
  Banged Up Abroad is a British documentary/docudrama television series created by Bart Layton that was produced for Channel Five and that premiered in March 2006...
  
  (2010), Billy Hayes

Background

Jarvis was born in Yeovil, Somerset

Somerset

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, England

England

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 and attended the Littlehampton

Littlehampton

Littlehampton is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton and east of the county town of Chichester....

 Community School and Chichester College. He joined the National Youth Theatre

National Youth Theatre

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 aged 16. He holds BTEC

Business And Technology Education Council (BTEC)

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 National Diploma in acting.

He is a keen footballer

Football (soccer)

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 and basketball

Basketball

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 player

He is reportedly a direct descendant of English Poet Laureate John Skelton

John Skelton

John Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...

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