Trivia
- Robin underwent five weeks of mountaineering training before filming in order for her to star in the 2000 movie.
- 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.
Quotes
- 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.