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Being a legend in Hollywood does not come easy. And here is one of the most legendary actresses in recent time to tell her story on ActorsE Chat.Being discovered at a Hollywood lunch counter is the myth
usually associated with Lana Turner. In the case of Robin Riker, however, it is
actually true, although at the time Robin was behind the counter, serving
burgers.
Two
months after her arrival in Hollywood, a television producer, who was a regular
patron of the hamburger stand, decided to produce a story on the aspiring
actress for his weekly magazine show. A few weeks later, Robin had 15 minutes
of the most coveted tool an aspiring actress can have in her Hollywood arsenal:
actual, professionally produced and aired footage. She hasn’t stopped working
since.
Being able to say
you have an agent and film on yourself only two short months after arriving in
town was an amazing gift. “I certainly can’t call it an accomplishment,” says
Robin. “It was as though my immediate good luck was the universe’s way of
saying, “Okay here are a couple of signs that you made the right choice. Now…
learn patience.”
Robin
had been a theatre actress since the age of two. The third generation of
performers from both sides of her family, she was “born in a trunk.” Actually
she was almost born in a taxi on the Brooklyn Bridge, but that’s another story.
Her parents, professional actors, who owned and ran theatres, had the very
practical philosophy, “If you have children, use them.” Classically trained
Robin grew up on stage, backstage, in the box office and selling cookies in the
lobby. Even after starring in many TV series, films and countless episodics,
the stage remains Robin’s first love and her favorite version of soul food.
She’s been lucky enough to split her time between stage, film and television
since her arrival in Hollywood.
Her stage credits
include the critically acclaimed production of Arthur Miller’s All
My Sons with Neil Patrick Harris, Len Cariou and Laurie Metcalf at The Geffen
Playhouse for which she received an Ovation nomination as Best Supporting
Actress, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, at The Blank Theatre which garnered her a
Best Actress nom also from the Ovation Awards. She worked at the Matrix Theatre
in the late George Furth’s play Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, and Sex
for which she received both LA Weekly and Ovation award noms for Best
Supporting Actress. Cannibals at The Zephyr Theatre, The Kiss at City Hall
for the Pasadena Playhouse, The Falcon Theatre with Tony Danza in Bernard
Slade’s I Remember You, The Ladies Room in both Los Angels and San Francisco
and two off Broadway productions, Pied-a Terre
and Welcome to the Woods. The latter of the two was part of the New York 400
Festival
Her television
work includes starring roles in six series. Among them are, The
Gregory Hines Show on CBS, Thunder Alley with Edward Asner on ABC, Get a
Life for FOX (her episode, Zoo Animals on Wheels, was named by TV Guide
as, One of the 50 funniest moments in TV history ) Shaky Ground, also for FOX
and the ground breaking SHOWTIME series, Brothers for which she received two
Ace Award nominations as Best Actress in a comedy.
Ms. Riker was
most recently seen playing Hector Elizondo’s two times ex-wife on
Tim Allen’s ABC series Last Man Standing, followed by a recurring role on FX
network’s Justified. Spring of 2013 marked the release of Devil May Cry a
motion capture video game in which she stars playing multiple roles: a demon
with too much plastic surgery, a teenager at a disco and, her favorite…a giant
vomiting slug with the head and torso of a woman…kinda.
With well over a
hundred television appearances, Robin can be seen in
recurring roles in wide variety of shows such as The Glades, Reba, HBO’s Hung
and Boston Legal as well as guest starring roles on dozens of shows including
Switched at Birth, NCIS, and BONES. She also played the role of Beth Logan on
60 episodes of the CBS soap, The Bold and the Beautiful.
Her first feature film, Alligator, has become a cult classic and was recently
named by the WhatCulture! website as possessing the “12th Scariest Movie
Monster That Came From Below.” Robin has appeared in several Disney films
Including Read it and Weep, Brink and, Don’t Look Under the Bed, as well
as a number of Indie films: Divorce Invitation, Save the Date, Holly’s
Holiday and Christmas Everyday, and two Hallmark films: This Magic Moment, and
Gone but not Forgotten with Brooke Shields and Scott Glenn.
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