- Born
- Height1.75 m
- Born and raised in Boyle Heights, California. He starting acting in high school and followed the acting bug to the theater arts department of Los Angeles City College. He joined the Tripoli Circus as Pozo the clown for two tours of the Midwest. He worked as a stage hand for the Bi-Lingual Foundation of the Arts. He broke free and broke through with a role in the Low Rider cult classic Boulevard Nights (1979). That same year he became a member of the Improvisational Theatre Project at the Mark Taper Forum. Since then he has been an improv journeyman working with Cold Tofu, Los Angeles Theatresports, Wrought Irony, and Acme's Zebra Company. To date he has made over 200 appearances as various characters on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992).- IMDb mini biography by: Robert Covarrubias
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- From 1993 to 2014 Robert appeared over 250 times on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as various characters.
- Robert Covarrubias and Mark Hamill appeared together in a Los Angeles City College Theatre Arts Department production of The Warrior's Husband back in 1970.
- Besides playing NBC correspondent Robert Covarrubias on the Tonight Show, he also appeared as Mahatma Gandhi, Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Fidel Castro, Richard Reed (The Shoe Bomber), Buzz Mustafa (Iraq's first astronaut), former Mexican president Vicente Fox, Brandon the computer technician, plus many many more.
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