Robin Weigert

Biography

Robin Weigert is best known for her stellar performance as Calamity Jane in the HBO series Deadwood, for which she received a 2004 Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She’s presently shooting her second appearance on the hit-series, Lost and has also got a pilot for NBC’s new series, LIFE.

Robin played the Mormon Mother in the Golden Globe-winning HBO Films presentation of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, and Emma Thompson. Her other film credits include Sleepytime Gal (Sundance 2001), Loggerheads, The Good German and most recently, Things We Lost in the Fire , which is scheduled for release later in 2007.

Robin’s also been in a slew of television dramas including Without a Trace, Law & Order, Judging Amy, Cold Case, NYPD Blue and CSI.

This multi-faceted actress is no stranger to Broadway. Robin played Poppy Norton-Taylor in the hit revival Noises Off and was nominated for Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for her acclaimed turn in Richard Nelson's Madame Melville, with Joely Richardson and Macaulay Culkin. She also both played and understudied Masha in 2001's hot-ticket event, The Seagull in Central Park, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and last saw Broadway as a member of Lincoln Center's Twelfth Night cast.

Her Off-Broadway credits include A Place at the Table (MCC), Arms and the Man (Roundabout), Hamlet (Public), Goodnight, Children Everywhere (Playwrights Horizons), Pride's Crossing (LCT), and The Three Sisters (La MAMA ETC). Robin has appeared regionally at McCarter, Arena Stage, Long Wharf, New York Stage and Film, A.C.T. and the Berkshire Theatre Festival.

What's new with Robin Weigert?
	Catch Robin alongside Halle Barry and Benecio del Toro in the film, Things We Lost in the Fire. The release date is scheduled for later on in the year.

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