Robin Tunney

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Recent Role:
Teresa Lisbon on The Mentalist
Gender:
Female
Born:
6-19-1972
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Looking as though she hails from an Irish Spring commercial, green-eyed, dewy-skinned actress Robin Tunney became known in the 1990s for her work in a number of teen and independent films. A native of Chicago's South Side, where she attended Catholic high school, Tunney studied acting at the Chicago Academy for the Performing Arts. She spent her summers performing in such stage productions as Bus Stop and Agnes of God. At the age of 18, Tunney moved to Los Angeles, where she began finding work on various television shows.







More The actress made her screen debut in the 1992 Brendan Fraser/Pauly Shore comedy Encino Man. She had her first lead role in the teen ensemble film Empire Records (1995), playing a suicidal record store employee who announces her presence in the film by walking into the store and shaving her head. A year later, Tunney starred as a member of a group of high school misfits who use witchcraft to take revenge on their tormenters in The Craft. Sort of a Sixteen Candles meets Carrie, the film proved to be a cult hit, particularly with teenage girls.





Tunney subsequently made her name in independent dramas and mainstream films alike, doing particularly strong work in Niagara Niagara, earning the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress, for her portrayal of a young woman with Tourette's Syndrome. In 1999, she entered into the realm of bloated budgets and equally bloated plot premises, starring as Satan's intended bride alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in End of Days. That same year, she played a 22nd century paramedic in Supernova, a sci-fi thriller that had her racing against time to escape from an exploding star. In 2000, she stared with Chris O'Donnell as a stranded mountain climber in the thriller Vertical Limit.

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    2.5 Terrible
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    She's good looking woman,and that's about it. i'm not seen Prison Brake,and that's why i think that she can't act. because,in Mentalist she isn't acting,she is trying,but that's not enough for me. it is like,she is trying too much, too much,to be boss. of mystical investigation bureau. and what's with all that posing? head to left,head to right? and rolling eyes? just pay some attention at her next time it's like she don't know what to do. my suggestion,change her,for someone who can act.
    i like The Mentalist, but most of actors are killing it.
    But Simon Baker is excellent! Peace

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    10 Perfect
    I love her. hide show

    I think she's an amazing actress and definitly underrated. Everybody who has watched her in "Open Window" or "Niagara Niagara" would agree with me.
    I've never heard of hear before The Mentalist but she was the one that got me hooked. After that I discovered all the other movies of her.
    Not to mention that she is so down to earth and comes across as such a friendly person in real life. She doesn't care what people say about her and that's what I like.
    I love her unique beauty and that she doesn't look like all this Hollywood beauties.
    I just wish she would get more recognition because she truly deserves it.

    One last word about The Mentalist: She and Simon Baker really have great chemistry and it's enjoyable to watch those two.

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    9 Superb
    great actress hide show

    I first realized her in the movie with Arnold. In that time I thought she has a really pretty face with big eyes. Then the prison break came and to say the truth I could recognize her at first. She was in the first season but she was Lincoln Lawyer but she died too early for me. Then now the mentalist, she and Patrick has a very good chemistry in the series. She is funny but also can become serious to balance Patrick. She fits her role greatly because of her great acting skills.
    I hope to see her big screen again.

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    8.9 Great
    She's a Unique Character hide show

    I think Robin Tunney is a pretty underappreciated actress. I've been watching her in various roles since I was about 9 years old and I have always thought that she has a pretty subtle but powerful presence onscreen. Plus she doesn't have a "popular" look and while I think she's beautiful, she is not classicly pretty. She's a fairly unique actress who doesn't feel the need to sell out or do something stupid (aka get arrested or have a drunken marriage, etc) to increase her fame. Plus I saw her on Celebrity Poker Showdown and she's a pretty awesome poker player. So Rock on Robin Tunney I say.

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    7 Good
    Didn't help Lincoln hide show

    She ends up becoming the lawyer for Lincoln Burrows but eventually can't help him and dies. She really pissed me off when she wasn't able to help Linc, she ended up dying trying to help him. Her and Nick Savern were close to find evidence to help free Linc but she ends up dying, she finds Terrance Steadman and ends up dying, she gets betrayed by Savern, buts he helps her in the end but she ends up dying. Sad story for her.

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