Robin Strasser's Biography
Robin Strasser, the 1982 winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama, has been one of the best-loved -- and hated -- performers in that genre for nearly 30 years.
In addition to "One Life to Live's" Dorian Lord, the quintessential woman you love to hate, she created the role of Rachel Davis on "Another World" and played Christina Karras on "All My Children." For her portrayal of Dorian, she has also won the 1996 Soap Opera Digest Award as Outstanding Lead Actress, and the 1996 Soap Opera Update Award for Best Actress. Robin is now on the TV soap "Passions." where she plays a witch name "Hecuba" who lives in a cave.
Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan, Ms. Strasser graduated from the High School of Performing Arts and attended the Yale School of Drama on a full scholarship. Theater being her first love, she continued to perform there while working in daytime television. She appeared on Broadway in Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Shadow Box," and played the coveted role of Jenny in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two." As a founding member of the American Conservatory Theatre, she has worked with such prestigious companies as the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Mark Taper Forum.
On primetime television, Ms. Strasser has starred in several miniseries: "Baby M," "Glitz," "Blind Faith" and "Jackie Collins' Lady Boss." She has had recurring roles on "Knots Landing" and "Coach," and made guest-star appearances on such hit shows as "Murphy Brown," "Dear John," "Murder, She Wrote," "China Beach," "The Young Riders," "Highway to Heaven" and "Civil Wars."
Ms. Strasser has served as President of L.A.'s Women in Theatre for two years, produced three Equity Waiver Productions, sold her first teleplay, and formed a video production company to produce videos in the areas of women's health and fitness. Her first, on menopause, will be released in the fall of 1997.
Ms. Strasser is a certified level one Kripalu Yoga teacher and leads workshops on yoga as support for mid-life transition. She is an avid hiker, a gourmet cook, and has renovated 14 houses and apartments. She currently shares her home with her 11-pound Maltese, Scooter, whom she acknowledges is a surrogate daughter. Ms. Strasser is active in fundraising for AIDS research, the New York City Blood Center and Telicare. She is on the Advisory Board of the American Menopause Foundation, and is a spokesperson for the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Her proudest accomplishment, though, is being a mother to her two grown sons, Nicholas and Benjamin Luckinbill.
Awards and Nominations :
Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (1981)
Emmy Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (1982)
Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (1983)
Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (1985)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role (1986)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nominee, Outstanding Contribution by an Actor/Actress to the Form of Continuing Drama Who is Currently on a Daytime Serial (1986)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress (1988)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress (1994)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress (1995)
Soap Opera Digest Awards Outstanding Lead Actress (1996)
Soap Opera Update Awards Best Actress (1996)
VITAL STATISTICS:
BIRTHPLACE: New York, NY
BIRTHDATE: May 7, 1945
HEIGHT: 5'4"
HAIR: Auburn
EYES: Brown
