Early life

Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a music teacher mother and a corporate attorney father. He was raised on the South Side of Chicago, and was brought up Methodist. He attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Illinois State University in 1994, and his masters of education from Saint Xavier University. He was a music teacher at Horace Mann Elementary School in Chicago,IL

Career

Acting and comedy

Robinson began doing stand-up and taking classes in improv and acting at The Second City in Chicago. Beginning in 2005, he portrayed Darryl Philbin on the American version of The Office, and was promoted to a starring role in the fourth season. He has appeared on other television shows, including Arrested Development, Lucky, Friends, Halfway Home, and Reno 911!. He appeared in the music video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Hump de Bump". He also hosted the seventh season of Last Comic Standing. He voiced Cookie in Shrek Forever After and played Reg Mackworthy on the HBO hit series Eastbound & Down.

Music

For a number of years, Robinson and comedian Jerry Minor had a comedy act where they performed as musical duo L. Witherspoon & Chucky, with Minor as smooth singing L. Witherspoon and Robinson as Chucky, the keyboard player and back-up singer. They performed the act on HBO's Sketch Pad, several stand-up shows on Comedy Central, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! He occasionally performs with his band, The Nasty Delicious, alongside his brother Chris Rob. They were featured as his band in an episode of The Office, and on the season finale of the seventh season of Last Comic Standing. He has also performed in character in multiple episodes of The Office, and was featured on the Hot Tub Time Machine soundtrack, singing "Jessie's Girl" and "Let's Get It Started." He was also in the film Miss March, playing the role of the hit rapper Phil, also known as Horsedick.MPEG. Robinson produced two songs from that same film.

Personal life

Robinson has been featured with fellow NBC actor/comedian Nick Offerman in a series of commercials for New Era Cap Company. He was arrested on June 29, 2008 in Culver City, on charges of possessing methamphetamine and MDMA, and being under the influence of cocaine during a routine traffic stop.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	AppleJax and YoYo	YoYo	Short
2005	Year of the Scapegoat	Pappy Labourgeneaux	Short
2007	D-War	Bruce
	Daddy's Little Girls	Byron	Cameo
	Knocked Up	Club doorman	Cameo
	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Bobby Shad
2008	Pineapple Express	Matheson
	Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Delaney
	Prop 8: The Musical	Preacher
	The Frequency of Claire	Q-pid
2009	Fanboys	Skywalker Ranch guard
	Miss March	Phil (Horsedick.MPEG)
	Memphis Calling	Memphis
	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Tuskegee Airman	Cameo
	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard	DJ Request
	Post Grad	Funeral Director
2010	Father of Invention	Jerry
	Shrek Forever After	Cookie	Voice
	Hot Tub Time Machine	Nick Webber-Agnew	Nominated—Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Adapted Song (shared with Bruce Springsteen)
2013	Escape from Planet Earth	Doc	Voice
	Peeples	Wade	Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor - Comedy
	This Is the End	Himself	MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Moment (shared with Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and The Backstreet Boys)
	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	George	Voice
	Rapture-Palooza	Anti-Christ
2014	Get On Up	Maceo Parker
2015	Hot Tub Time Machine 2	Nick Webber
2016	Sausage Party	Mr. Grits
	Table 19	TBA	Filming
	Henchmen	Stew (voice)	Filming
	Zeroville	Burglar	Completed
	Morris from America	Curtis Gentry	Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance
2017	Gabriel Lim's DeanMen Means Day	Cameron	Post-production and filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Play'd: A Hip Hop Story	Cole	Movie
2003	Lucky	Mutha Rhodes	13 episodes
2004	The Bernie Mac Show	Wayne	Episode "Hair Jordan"
	LAX	Wayne	Episode: "Abduction"
	Friends	Clerk	Episode: "The One with Princess Consuela"
2005	Arrested Development	Studio Guard #1	Episode: "Switch Hitter"
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Attendant #1	Episode: "The End"
2005-2013	The Office	Darryl Philbin / President Jackson	119 episodes Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (2011, 2012, 2013) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
2007	Halfway Home	Mr. Brown	Episode: "Halfway Working"
2009-2013	The Cleveland Show	LeVar "Freight Train" Brown	Voice 17 episodes
2009	James Gunn's PG Porn	Havana Bob	Episode: "Helpful Bus"
	Reno 911!	Levon French	Episode: "Deputy Dance"
2009; 2012	Eastbound & Down	Reggie Macworthy Baseball player	4 episodes
2011	Love Bites	Bowman	2 episodes
2013	Kroll Show	Various Characters	Episode: "The Greatest Hits of It"
2014-2016	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Doug Judy (The Pontiac Bandit)	Episodes: "The Pontiac Bandit", "The Pontiac Bandit Returns" and "The Cruise"
	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself	Episode: "Craig Robinson Wears a Bordeaux Button Down & Dark Jeans"
2015	Key & Peele	Himself	Episode: "Super Bowl Special"
	Mr. Robinson	Craig Robinson	Main Cast; 6 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]