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Laila Robins

Highest Rated: 93% Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Lowest Rated: 9% Multiple Sarcasms (2010)

Birthday: Mar 14, 1959

Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Born in 1959 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Laila Robins earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, and subsequently attended the prestigious Yale School of Drama, earning a Masters of Fine Arts. She began working on stage in the mid-1980s and quickly found herself on screen in a substantial role, playing Steve Martin's wife, in the holiday classic "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987). Her first series regular role came on the show "Gabriel's Fire" (ABC, 1990-91) playing the attorney who helps free James Earl Jones, then hires him as a private investigator. Once that show ended, Robins continued to work both on stage and screen, notably playing a recurring role as young Livia Soprano on "The Sopranos" (HBO, 1999-2007), and making multiple appearances on "In Treatment" (HBO, 2008-2010), and "Bored to Death" (HBO, 2009-2011). In 2014, she appeared as a series regular, playing the US Ambassador to Pakistan on season 4 of "Homeland" (Showtime, 2011-). The following year she was a regular on season 2 of "Murder in the First" (TNT, 2014-16). It was announced that she would be a series regular on "Deception" (ABC, 2018-)

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Highest-Rated Movies

93% 87% Planes, Trains and Automobiles Watchlist
77% 57% Concussion
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77% 55% Oxygen
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74% 33% She's Lost Control
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71% 33% Searching for Paradise
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70% 45% Female Perversions
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60% 32% Island Zero
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56% 49% True Crime
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56% 50% Blumenthal
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55% 47% Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Far from the Tree 2024 Dr. Kimbrell Actor The Rest of Us 2019 Dean Patterson Actor Impossible Monsters 50% 90% 2019 Dean Gaslow Actor Island Zero 60% 32% 2017 Maggie Actor She's Lost Control 74% 33% 2014 Irene Actor Blumenthal 56% 50% 2013 Cheryl Actor Concussion 77% 57% 2013 Woman 3 Actor The Letter 10% 2012 Doctor Tynan Actor Multiple Sarcasms 9% 24% 2010 Lauren Actor Welcome to Academia 2009 Actor A Broken Sole 2007 Passenger Actor Slippery Slope 18% 2006 Michaela Stark Actor Things That Hang From Trees 20% 2006 Miss Millie Actor Jailbait 17% 50% 2004 Mother Actor Searching for Paradise 71% 33% 2002 Barbara Mattei Actor Drop Back Ten 2000 Viv Actor Oxygen 77% 55% 1999 Frances Hannon Actor True Crime 56% 49% 1999 Patricia Findley Actor Blood Oranges 41% 1999 Actor Small Vices 1999 Rita Fiore Actor The Blood Oranges 1997 Catherine Actor Female Perversions 70% 45% 1996 Emma Actor Live Nude Girls 38% 39% 1995 Rachel Actor Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael 55% 47% 1990 Elizabeth Zaks Actor An Innocent Man 44% 47% 1989 Kate Rainwood Actor
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