| Office: | Member of the National Council |
| Termstart: | 20 March 2020 |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Šaľa, Czechoslovakia |
| Party: | Ordinary People and Independent Personalities |
Róbert Halák (born 4 September 1977 in Šaľa) is a Slovak theater and television actor and politician. Since 2020 he has served as a member of the National Council in the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities party caucus.[1]
Halák was born in Šala and grew up in the nearby small town of Vlčany. In 1997 he graduated from a conservatory in Bratislava. Already as a student, he was active as an actor at the New Scene theater. In 1997-2020 he played in various theatre and television productions, mainly soap operas.[2] In 2008, Halák received Literary Fund prize for playing Tony in the West Side Story musical.[3]
In 2020, he was elected to parliament on the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities list. In October 2022 he caused a disruption in parliamentary activity by destroying the parliament's computer and communication systems. The parliament session was suspected on 27 October as a result of ICT systems failure, which was originally blamed on a hacker attack. Nonetheless, in early October, the speaker, Boris Kollár announced the issue was caused by "incorrectly connected cables".[4] Halák was later revealed as a culprit, although he denied sabotaging the equipment on purpose, stating he does not even own a computer and connected the cables only as a spontaneous reaction to seeing loose cables in a meeting room in the parliament building.[5]