Robert Curbishley appeared on Coronation Street in November 2002 and September 2003 as Dan Kelly, an old friend of Lucy Barlow.
His other credits include roles in Heartbeat, Air Crash Investigation, the 1999 film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? and the 2000 TV movie Seeing Red. On stage he has appeared in productions of Gold!, The Mikado, Beauty and the Beast and Billy Liar.