Jake robards biography

Jake O’Neill Robards is the youngest son of two-time Oscar-winning actor Jason Robards and producer Lois (O’Connor) Robards and the grandson of silent film actor, Jason Robards, Sr.

Jake was raised in Connecticut far from Hollywood but close to New York’s Broadway where during Sunday matinees he would watch from the wings as his father performed revivals of The Iceman Cometh, You Can’t Take it with You, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

In college, Robards had his sights set on law school and a future in government, but during his senior year at Georgetown University, his French professor required students to act out parts in Moliere’s The School for Wives.

Perhaps it was inevitable with his upbringing – but it was at that moment that Robards fell in love with acting.

After graduation, Robards, like his father, briefly attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

He soon focused on New York independent theater playing a wid