Robinson was born in
Nottingham to parents Simon and Gill and grew up in
Maxey, a village near
Peterborough. He has a younger brother Edward "Eddie". They both attended
Stamford School, and the family moved closer to
Stamford in 2015. Robinson became interested in acting at 13. When he was 17, Robinson went on a school rugby tour to
South Africa. On 27 July 2015, he had a severe spinal neck injury attempting a tackle whilst playing against
D.F. Malan High School in
Bellville near
Cape Town. He was taken to the intensive care unit at Melomed Bellville Private Hospital, where he was operated on and stayed for 37 days. He was visited by
Huw Jones. After being weaned off the ventilator, Robinson was transported back to England via
air ambulance. He spent an additional 5 weeks at
Addenbrooke's Hospital in
Cambridge followed by 10 months in rehabilitation at the Princess Royal Spinal Unit in
Sheffield. As a result of the accident, Robinson is
tetraplegic and uses a power-assisted
manual wheelchair. The accident received media coverage and attention from public figures in and out of the rugby community. A fundraiser, "#TeamGeorge", was established by family friends, the proceeds of which went towards Robinson's equipment and long-term care. With support from Stamford, Robinson was able to return to finish his secondary education at 19 with an unconditional offer to the
University of Birmingham. He paused his studies in Philosophy when he was cast as a series regular in the second season of the
Netflix comedy-drama
Sex Education. His character Isaac's disability was written around the actor's real life one, and Robinson was included in the creative process. Robinson spoke on a panel on disability representation and treatment in the workplace at the 2021
Edinburgh TV Festival. That same year, he appeared in a two episode arc of the
Channel 5 series
Dalgliesh and was selected to be on the UK
BAFTA Breakthrough list. Robinson is set to feature in an educational film for the charity Back Up Trust. Robinson will also play the lead (
John McClamrock) in the film
Still Life, based on an award-winning
Texas Monthly non-fiction article of the same name written by
Skip Hollandsworth in 2009, about John McClamrock and his mother Ann. ==Filmography==