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Bold textROB FLYNN Rob Flynn is a German migrant who arrived in Australia on the Castel Felicia in late June 1959 with his parents Johannes and Jutta Schad. He changed his name years later partially to fit in more easily with the country that had sparked his imagination and his desire to succeed and also to facilitate a smoother reception from the adjudicators at the many auditions he attended during his 15 year modelling and acting career. His early years were spent in the Western Suburbs of Sydney renowned for its toughness and street smart inhabitants. The influences that were present in these formative years of his life gave him a healthy questioning of authority. A quality that was predominantly helpful in carving out his own path in life. Please see "this day tonight blacktown" where two of Rob's best friends Peter and Gary describe the culture of the times and the conflict with the education department at that time.

Rob went on to work with his dad as an apprentice bricklayer. With too much creative energy in his veins to remain a bricklayer. Rob took a leap of faith into the performing arts firstly as a male dancer with a company known as the Cheeky Chaps. This was an all male review which specialised in ladies nights at RSL and Leagues clubs entertaining large rooms filled with admiring women who were affiliated with the women's liberation movement. The women who attended these all male striptease shows were part of feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialised nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. Because Rob was such an early member of these group of entertainers there are no archival photos available. The closest comparison would be the renowned Thunder Down Under created by Jamie Drury who began his career as a male stripper just as Rob was embarking on a 15 year long modelling career. please see Rob Flynn Vimeo TV Showreel

Rob has made the most of "the lucky country" that is his home. Hie resume reads like he has squeezed more than one life into the one he has lived. From radical student to working as a bricklayer with his father, a 1980s stripper with the cheeky chaps, an international modelling and acting career, a licensed stonemason, a professional carer, a life coach for teenagers with June Dally Watkins, a corporate trainer, a team member with Bunnings, a store manager for Beaumont tiles, and currently a real estate agent running his own business at Bega Valley Realty. Rob has taken full advantage of all the opportunities the lucky country has given him.