Robin underwent five weeks of mountaineering training before filming
Robin won a Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup, for her performance in Niagra Niagra, playing a young women with Tourette's Syndrome.
She was sent a 900 page package from the Tourette's centre, in order to play her character.
Robin's most recent acting roles,is in the horror/thriller film, The Zodiac(2005), where she played Laura Parish,one of the lead actors.
Robin starred in the hit movie Vertical Limit (2000) as Annie Garrett.
Robin wore a wig in the 1996 movie The Craft because she had shaved her head for her role in Empire Records (1995).
At the age of eighteen, Robin moved to Los Angeles, where she began finding work on various television shows.
Robin spent her summers performing in stage productions such as Bus Stop and Agnes of God.
One of Robin's first acting roles was in the 1987 TV show Frog where she played Hannah.
In 1996, Robin starred in the dark teen film The Craft as a young high school witch.
She grew up with Lara Flynn Boyle and they went to the same high school together at the prestigious Chicago Academy for the Arts, where she studied acting.
Robin is best friends with Indie Rocker Liz Phair.
She is 5' 4" tall.
Robin married Bob Gosse in October 1997, but they are now divorced.
Robin: I need to be home for a while. I've been working for two-and-a-half years, so I want to go back to New York with my husband and hang out with my dogs!
Robin: I tend to be drawn to the more aberrant characters. There's more to do with them.
Robin: I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.
Robin: My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
Robin: I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.
Robin: Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.
Robin: I stripped down for Allure photos.
Robin: I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
Robin: Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.
Robin: The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.
Robin: I've been acting long enough that I can tell when people have seen me in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen me in something they actually enjoyed.
Robin: After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
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