Robin Wright

When she was still six years old, Robin dreamed of becoming an aid worker for a humanitarian organization like Doctors Without Borders.

Robin has been named the National Campaign Chairperson for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Inc, an organization aimed at increasing awareness of the disease and generating funds for research. Her grandmother was once afflicted with the disease.

Robin's father was a pharmaceutical executive while her mom was an Independent Executive National Sales Director for Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Robin is the daughter-in-law of actor Eileen Ryan and director Leo Penn. She is the sister-in-law of actor Chris Penn, composer Michael Penn, and singer Aimee Mann.

Robin enjoys bicycling, writing, reading, and crosswords in her free time.

Robin turned down fourteen roles before she decided to play the title role in Moll Flanders, alongside Morgan Freeman and Stockard Channing in 1996.

Robin's salary for her role in Unbreakable in 2000, was $2,500,000.00. For the movie Sorry, Haters which was filmed on digital video, she was paid $100.00 a day, the same amount every other actor and crew member was receiving.

Robin married Dane Witherspoon in 1986, and divorced him in 1988 She went on to marry Sean Penn on April 27, 1996, but the couple announced that they were divorcing in December of 2007.

Robin was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress" in the mega-hit, Forrest Gump as Jenny. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for the same role, in the category of "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role".

Robin was car-jacked in Santa Monica, California at gunpoint in the 1990's. Shortly after the crime, her and Sean Penn moved out of Los Angeles.

Robin chose to back out of her role as Abby in The Firm in 1994, upon discovering that she was pregnant. The role went to Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Robin dated actor Charlie Sheen when she was fifteen years old.

Robin met Jason Patric on the set of Denial in 1990, and the two started a love affair. In State of Grace, she met actor Sean Penn, by whom she had a daughter named Dylan Frances, and a son that they named Hopper Jack.

Robin was nominated by the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role in She's So Lovely in 1998 for "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role". She was also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 for her role in the project Empire Falls in the category of "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries".

Robin owns two oil wells in Texas.

Robin was offered roles in 1995 for Batman Forever and Sabrina, but turned both of them down. She also turned down a role in the blockbuster movie Jurassic Park.

Robin was set to play Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991, with Kevin Costner, but backed out of the role when she found out she was pregnant.

Robin was nominated for "Favorite Actress in a Drama/Romance" in 2000 by Blockbuster Entertainment for her leading role opposite Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle.

Robin's mother is a National Sales Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics, and is one of the top Directors for the entire corporation.

Robin got her breakout role in The Princess Bride in 1987, in the starring role as Princess Buttercup, the damsel in distress.

Robin finished high school, and decided to pursue acting. She got her first role on the soap opera Santa Barbara. She was nominated three times for an Emmy Award. She won a Soap Opera Digest Award as Outstanding Heroine in a Daytime Soap Opera in 1988 for the role.

Robin went to Taft high school in Los Angeles, California, with dreams of becoming a model. Her career as a model began while still in high school at age fourteen, in Paris and in Japan.