Leajato Amara Robinson
LEAJATO AMARA ROBINSON received a BFA from the Juilliard School, and is a four-year graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. His early journey as an artist started in music and eventually extended to dance. Robinson started studies at The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and the Milwaukee Ballet School where at the age of sixteen he was choreographing and performing in Summer programs for the Milwaukee Ballet School, and a Benefit Concert for the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music; under former faculty, teacher and mentor, Michael J. Kalinyen, an established singer and performer e.g., Angela Lansbury, Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. Mr. Robinson’s Theater and Film studies were under Michael J. Kalinyen, Terry Schreiber, Christopher Carter Sanderson, and Penny Templeton and Hank Schob. As a performer for television, Robinson has co-starred in television shows such as “BULL”, “MANIFEST”, “The Punisher”, “Homeland”, and ”Orange is the New Black”. Mr. Robinson has also appeared and won "Dramatic Performance of the Year" (Young-Howze Theater Journal Awards), in a feature film of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in the title role. In dance he has toured nationally and internationally with the Paul Taylor Dance Company/Taylor II, Elisa Monte Dance, and Tap Dogs. In addition he has performed at Long Wharf Theater, North Shore Music Theater, and multiple regional theaters as actor, dancer and musician. He has been in Off Broadway productions, and a variety of self-produced shows demonstrating his vocal and music compositions, which leads to “The Sh-ames (Shakespeare Games)” and "Lullaby".
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Films
14
TV Shows
Known For
18 Credits
The Blacklist
as Crime Lord #3
2013

Homeland
as Clarence Jackson
2011

Chicago P.D.
as ICE Officer
2014

Blue Bloods
as Protester #3
2010

Person of Interest
as Orderly
2011

Orange Is the New Black
as Bartholomew
2013

Blindspot
as Bahama Banker (as Leajato Robinson)
2015

Bull
as Kendrick Gorman (as Leajato Robinson)
2016

Boardwalk Empire
2010

Manifest
as Co-Pilot Daniel Amuta Clarke
2018

Marvel's The Punisher
as FBI Agent
2017

666 Park Avenue
as Smith (as Leajato Robinson)
2012