Muriel Robin

Muriel Robin

Born 1955-08-02 (age 71) Montbrison, Loire, France
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Biography

Muriel Robin (born 2 August 1955) is a French actress and comedian. She won an International Emmy Award for Best Actress in 2007 and received a nomination for a César Award in 2001 and six nominations for a MoliÚre Award.

Muriel Robin is the youngest of three children of Antoine Robin and AimĂ©e Rimbaud, who owned shoe-shops in Montbrison. She had two sisters, Nydia and Martine. In 1960, the family moved to Saint-Étienne. When she was very young, she liked to make people laugh and dreamed of becoming a singer. After a lacklustre school career and a love of parties, she ended up failing her BaccalaurĂ©at twice in a row. Unsure of which career to follow, she started to sell shoes in one of the family's three shops, without being really motivated.

In 1977, aged 22, she left Saint-Étienne for Paris, taking a course in dramatic arts at Cours Florent, the entry college for the National Superior Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, in Paris. She graduated and returned to sell shoes in Saint-Étienne

In 1981, she joined Roger Louret, whom she had met in Paris, in Monclar, with his theatre company, Les Baladins en Agenais. Notable people that she met there include Elie Semoun and Annie Grégorio. In 1983, she returned to Paris with Annie Grégorio to work at the Petit Théùtre de Bouvard., where she also met Didier Bénureau. She came up against the authoritarian methods of Philippe Bouvard, but, even so, he gave her a part in a play he had written, Double Foyer. Following that, she played in a role co-written with Didier Bénureau, Maman ou Donne-moi ton linge, je fais une machine, (Mother, or, Give me your laundry, I am washing a load), in 1986, in Avignon, and in 1987 in Paris, at the Théùtre de Dix heures. The play was later shown in Monclar at the Théùtre de Poche. She became known to the wider public, towards the end of the 1980s through a television programme called La Classe, broadcast by FR3 (which became France 3). Muriel Robin met and became good friends with Pierre Palmade. They created her first one-woman-show together, Les majorettes se cachent pour mourir, in 1988, directed by Roger Louret. This programme was a success and pushed Robin into the limelight.

During the 1990s, Robin appeared in plays including Tout m’Enerve, Bedos-Robin a collaboration with Roger Louret, Feu la Ma La MĂšre, and On Purge BĂ©bĂ©. She also presented on radio, on Europe 1, with her programme, Tout Robin. In 1997, she obtained her first role in cinema, replacing ValĂ©rie Lemercier in Les Couloirs du temps: Les Visiteurs 2 by Jean-Marie PoirĂ©. The same year she wrote and directed with Pierre Palmade in the play, Ils s'aiment,(They Love Each Other) played by Pierre Palmade and MichĂšle Laroque, which was a success and received a nomination for the MoliĂšre for the Best One-Man-Show or Sketch Show.

In May, 2000, she announced that she would finish with the genre of the one-woman-show and concentrate on her profession as a comedian, but also that year, took her first big role in cinema in the eponymous role of Marie-Line, by Medhi Charef. Other roles on stage and screen followed, in the following years.

Robin is a lesbian, and has been out since she was young. Her partner is actress and producer Anne Le Nen. ...

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Known For

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

1998

as Frénégonde de Pouille / Béatrice de Montmirail

The Book of Wonders
The Book of Wonders

2023

as Odette

You Don't Choose Your Family
Rise
Rise

2022

as Josiane

La pire mĂšre au monde
La pire mĂšre au monde

2025

as Judith de Pileggi

La Classe, les plus grands sketchs
La Classe, les plus grands sketchs

2026

as Self : Student (archive footage)

All About Actresses
All About Actresses

2009

as Muriel Robin

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Sophie's Misfortunes
Sophie's Misfortunes

2016

as Madame Fichini

The Grand Restaurant III
The Grand Restaurant III

2021

as Françoise

Alcool au féminin, elles brisent le tabou
Alcool au féminin, elles brisent le tabou

2025

as Self : Actrice et humoriste

Saint-Jacques
 La Mecque
The Lanzac Clan
The Lanzac Clan

2013

as Anne Lanzac

Doutes
Doutes

2021

as AgnĂšs Baer

L'Âge d'or de la pub
L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

as Self (archive footage)

A Day at the Museum
A Day at the Museum

2008

as Kandinsky lady