Robin Strasser

Winner of the 1982 Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series for her work on One Life to Live as Dorian Lord. Additionally in 1996, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award, and the Soap Opera Update Award as Outstanding Lead Actress. She created the role of Rachel Davis on Another World and Christina Karras on All My Children. In 2001, she was named Soap Opera Digest’s Outstanding Scene Stealer for her portrayal of Hecuba, the 300-year-old witch on Passions.

Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan, Robin graduated from the High School for the Performing Arts and attended the Yale School of Drama on a full scholarship. Theater being her first love, she has continued to perform there while working in Daytime Television. She appeared on Broadway in Michael Cristofer's Pulitzer Prize winning play The Shadow Box, and played the coveted role of Jenny in Neil Simon's Chapter Two. A founding member of the American Conservatory Theatre, she has worked with such prestigious companies as the Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, Café La Mama, and Playwrights Horizons. In 2004, Robin starred in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, by Charles Busch, at the Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey.

Robin had recurring roles on Coach, Knots Landing, and Dharma and Greg; and made guest-star appearances on such hit shows as Murphy Brown, Dear John, Murder She Wrote, China Beach, The Young Riders, and Highway to Heaven. She starred in a multitude of TV miniseries, among them: Baby M, Glitz, Blind Faith and Jackie Collins' Lady Boss.

Robin 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 area of women's health. Her first on Menopause will be web-launched in Fall, 2005.

Robin is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and has led workshops on yoga as support for mid-life transition. She is a gourmet cook (click for Robin’s Recipes), and has renovated 18 houses or apartments. She currently shares her home with her 15-pound Maltese/Bichon, Scooter, and her 5-pound Maltese, Bisou, whom she acknowledges are surrogate daughters.

Robin has been active in fundraising for The Actor’s Fund, Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS, the New York City Blood Center and Telicare. She has been a pro-bono spokesperson for the National Osteoporosis Foundation and she is on the Advisory Board of the American Menopause Foundation. Her proudest accomplishment, though, is being a mother to her two grown sons, Nicholas and Benjamin Luckinbill.