Nican Robinson

Robinson's earliest traceable credit in major databases is *Thunder Road* (2018), Jim Cummings' micro-budget feature that started as a short and became one of indie film's most talked-about projects of that year — 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. Robinson played Officer Nate Lewis, a supporting role in a film that was almost entirely a one-man showcase for Cummings, which means carving out any presence at all required real craft. The same year, he appeared in *13 Reasons Why* on Netflix (2018, IMDb), his first visible television credit. The 2021 run was something else entirely. Two films, both landing at the top of the critical scale: *See You Then* (97%) and *The Sleeping Negro* (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) — that second one a perfect score, which almost never happens and doesn't get talked about enough. *Feel Like Ghosts* followed in 2022. Then 2023 arrived and Robinson was suddenly everywhere at once: *Ahsoka* on Disney+, four episodes as First Officer Vic Hawkins; *Beef* on Netflix; *Heist 88*; and *The Secret Art of Human Flight*. That's four projects in a single calendar year across streaming giants and independent cinema, a workload that suggests he'd crossed some threshold of industry visibility. The 2025 slate confirms the trajectory isn't slowing. *The Devil and the Daylong Brothers* earned 84% on Rotten Tomatoes (Rotten Tomatoes), and *Before You Fade Away Into Nothing* marks his first credited role as a producer and writer — not just an actor executing someone else's vision, but someone building his own. Whether that producing credit becomes a consistent part of his identity going forward is the open question right now.