"If I write it in a song, will my heart still heal?"
Robert Patrick Benedict (b. September 21, 1970 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American actor and musician known best for his role as Richard Coad on Felicity and Chuck Shurley/God on Supernatural. He hosts two podcasts, King of Cons, and Supernatural: Then And Now with his Supernatural co-star Richard Speight Jr.
He shares two children with ex-wife Mollie. He's currently in a relationship with former co-star Ruth Connell, with whom he shares a daughter, born in 2024.
Filmography:
- Felicity (1998 - 2002) as Richard Coad
- Chicago Hope (2000) as Dr. Peter Ball
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000) as Jape
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001) as Preston Wasserstein
- NYPD Blue (2002) as Jeff Gamble
- Birds of Prey (2002) (2002 - 2003) as Gibson Kafka
- NCIS (2005) as Aaron Alan Wright
- Medium (2005) as Male Passenger
- Kicking & Screaming (2005) as Beantown Employee
- Alias (2005) as Brodien
- Monk (2005) as as Jonathan Davenportnote
- Threshold (2005 - 2006) as Lucas Pegg
- Sex and Death 101 (2007) as Bow-Tie Bob
- House (2008) as Dr. Jaime Conway
- Burn Notice (2008) as Eddie Ash
- CSI (2009) as Brian Morley
- Supernatural (2009 - 2020) as Chuck Shurley/God
- The Winchesters (2023) as Tango
- 'Til Death (2010) as Rainbow
- Cold Case (2010) as Steve Burke '89
- Law & Order: LA (2010) as Adam Yarborough
- Shameless (US) (2012) as Dr. Noah Pitts
- Psych (2012) as Mandlebaum
- NCIS: Los Angeles (2012) as Jarrod Prodeman
- The Mentalist (2013) as Paul Friedman
- Franklin & Bash (2013) as Sandy Hall
- Documentary Now! (2015) as Larry Fein
- Masters of Sex (2015) as Jonathan Laurents
- The Hillywood Show (2015 - 2018) as News Reporter/Cain
- Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2017) as David Curry
- NCIS: New Orleans (2019) as Liam Sommers
- Bosch (2019) as Dr. Victor Hansen
- Lucifer (2016) (2021) as Vincent Le Mec
- NCIS: Hawaiʻi (2021) as Damian Davenport
- Leverage: Redemption (2023) as Daniel Gray
- Law & Order (2024) as Scott Kelton
- The Boys (2019) (2024) as TBA