Robert Bobroczkyi (Hungarian: Bobróczky Róbert; born 17 July 2000) is a Romanian–Hungarian actor and former basketball player. Standing 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in), he has drawn attention for his exceptional height. After moving to the United States in 2016 and attending high school in Geneva, Ohio, he attended Rochester Christian University in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
In 2024, he made his feature film acting debut as the Offspring in Alien: Romulus before acting as the character of Pirate Clark in the 2026 film Backrooms.
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Early life and education
Bobroczkyi was born in Arad, Romania, the son of 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in) tall Hungarian-born Romanian international basketball player Zsigmond Zoltán Bobróczky (who competed alongside Gheorghe Mureșan) and Brunhilde, a 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) former volleyball and handball player. At age eight he was taller than his mother, at 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall. By the age of 12, he reached a height of 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), surpassing his father. As such, he was taller than Robert Wadlow was from the ages 8 to 14 years. He has been the subject of medical studies nearly his entire life, leading to the prevailing opinion that his height is a result of healthy genetics (i.e. familial or constitutional tall stature), not a hormonal disease or overgrowth syndrome. Bobroczkyi weighed just 190 lb (86 kg) at the time of his high school basketball debut in January 2017, and with a height of 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in), he was considered underweight, with a body mass index (BMI) of 16.1. As a high school senior, Bobroczkyi wore US size 17 shoes and had a 140 cm (57 in) inseam.
