Who Played Freddy Krueger? More Actors Wore The Glove Than You Likely Realize

In 2010, New Line Cinema decided to reboot the «Nightmare» film series with the aptly titled «A Nightmare on Elm Street,» but this time around the film starred Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. With a solid return at the worldwide box office of $117.7 million in ticket sales against a $35 million production budget, the Robert Englund-less «Nightmare» arguably had enough gas in the tank to fire up a new franchise based on the reboot, but nothing ever materialized.

While Englund and Haley had the most high-profile turns as Freddy in the «Nightmare on Elm Street» films, the classic character has lived on in a handful of independent film shorts. Set up as prequel chapters, the new «Nightmare» shorts starred Roberto Lombardi as Freddy in «Krueger: A Tale from Elm Street» in 2011, and he reprised the role again that year with «The Nightmare Ends on Halloween II» and 2013’s «Krueger: Another Tale from Elm Street.»

In 2014, Lombardi played the character in two more film shorts — «Krueger: A Walk Through Elm Street» and «Krueger: The Slasher from Elm Street» — and finished his run as the character with 2016’s «Krueger: The Legend of Elm Street,» 2017’s «Krueger: Tales from Elm Street,» and 2019’s «New Tale: The Demon of Elm Street.»