1. Robin Tunney then had leading roles in End of Days, Supernova, Vertical Limit, Cherish, The Secret Lives of Dentists and The In-Laws, and earned wider recognition playing Veronica Donovan on Prison Break and Teresa Lisbon on The Mentalist.
16 Facts About Robin Tunney
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Robin Tunney starred on the short-lived ABC series The Fix.
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Robin Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a car-salesman father, Patrick, and a bartender mother, Cathy.
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Robin Tunney is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney.
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Robin Tunney grew up in Orland Park, a southwest suburb of Chicago.
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Robin Tunney was raised Irish Catholic, attended Carl Sandburg High School, Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago and the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago, and resided in Palos Heights, in the Chicago area.
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Robin Tunney appeared in the film Empire Records, released in 1995, which polarized critics and audiences.
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Robin Tunney realized subsequent success in the role of Sarah Bailey in horror-fantasy film The Craft, in which she starred alongside Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True.
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Robin Tunney later led the independent film Niagara, Niagara, which was released in 1997, and earned critical praise; she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1997 Venice International Film Festival.
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Robin Tunney was featured opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1999 supernatural action film End of Days.
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Robin Tunney appeared in the 2004 pilot episode of the medical drama series House as a kindergarten instructor who suffers from an aphasic condition.
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Robin Tunney subsequently portrayed Veronica Donovan on the first season of Prison Break, which was released in 2005 to critical acclaim.
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On June 28,2006, Robin Tunney won her table in the eighth tournament series of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, moving on to the final table.
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Robin Tunney married producer and director Bob Gosse on October 4,1997; they divorced in 2006.
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Robin Tunney was engaged to Australian writer and director Andrew Dominik from 2009 to 2010.
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Robin Tunney became engaged to Nicky Marmet on December 25,2012, while on vacation in Rio de Janeiro.