Muriel Robin

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 Molière Award Muriel Robin is the youngest of three children of Antoine Robin and Aimée Rimbaud who owned shoeshops in Montbrison She had two sisters Nydia and Martine In 1960 the family moved to SaintÉtienne 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 Baccalauréat twice in a row Unsure of which career to follow she started to sell shoes in one of the familys three shops without being really motivated In 1977 aged 22 she left SaintÉtienne 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 SaintÉtienne 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 Théâtre 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 cowritten with Didier Bénureau Maman ou Donnemoi 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 Théâtre de Dix heures The play was later shown in Monclar at the Théâtre 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 onewomanshow 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 mEnerve BedosRobin a collaboration with Roger Louret Feu la Ma La Mère and On Purge Bébé She also presented on radio on Europe 1 with her programme Tout Robin In 1997 she obtained her first role in cinema replacing Valérie Lemercier in Les Couloirs du temps Les Visiteurs 2 by JeanMarie Poiré The same year she wrote and directed with Pierre Palmade in the play Ils saimentThey Love Each Other played by Pierre Palmade and Michèle Laroque which was a success and received a nomination for the Molière for the Best OneManShow or Sketch Show In May 2000 she announced that she would finish with the genre of the onewomanshow and concentrate on her profession as a comedian but also that year took her first big role in cinema in the eponymous role of MarieLine 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 Source Article Muriel Robin from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA