Rick Roberts was born in Salyersville, Kentucky, on February 7, 1955. He graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a B. S. in Law Enforcement. Interviewed with the FBI in 1987, Worked as a Paralegal for a major law firm in Paintsville, Ky. His first movie part was as a feature extra in CBS television movie, "Kentucky Woman", starring Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty in 1982.He did not act again until coming to Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2001, his career took off when he was cast as a Russian guard in "Stateside". Various feature extra scenes came his way in television series, "Surface" and "One Tree Hill". He studied with Wilmington Actors Group.