Robert Rey

Short Biography

Roberto Miguel Rey Júnior, M.D. (born October 1, 1961), best known as Robert Rey, is a Brazilian plastic surgeon featured on the E! reality series Dr. 90210. He is in private practice in Beverly Hills and specializes in cosmetic surgery.Roberto Miguel Rey Júnior was born in São Paolo, Brazil to Avelina Reisdörfer and engineer Roberto Miguel Rey, an American-born naturalized Brazilian. The family lived in São Paolo until 1974, when Mormon missionaries brought Rey, then 12 year old, and his brother and two sisters to the United States. Rey and his siblings moved to Utah, where they were adopted by a religious community. They later moved to Arizona. At sixteen he met with his mother again and they went to live in Prescott, Arizona where he attended Prescott High School. She worked as a janitor to help with Robert's schooling bills.Explaining his and his mother's estrangement from his father, Dr. Rey has explained was an abusive alcoholic and womanizer, saying, "Meu pai era um monstro, e minha mãe não tinha voz. Estava contentíssimo de sair daquilo." (My father was a monster, and my mother did not have a voice. I was very happy to leave that.). Rey referred to his father as a "total a**h*le, a womanizer and a drunk.".He became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1980 and has appeared in national television advertisement, most recently in a Carl's Jr. commercial in which he advises a chicken undergo br**st augmentation surgery. Rey was the medical consultant on the American film Se7en, and also made a cameo appearance in the Bollywood movie, Americanizing Shelley. He is also an avid matial artist with black belt in Taekwondo and Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.Noted for his work on celebrity patients, including br**st augmentation surgery featured on Dr. 90210 which was performed on the niece of John Travolta. He has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard, and an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1990.Rey and his wife, French-Canadian born Hayley Rey (born 1974), married in 2000. They have two children, daughter, Sydney, born in 2000 and son Robby, born in 2004. They live in Beverly Hills, California. Hayley Rey is a full-time homemaker in addition to appearing in the show.