CIVIL STATUS
Careers Actress, Author, Director
Nationality Frenchwoman
Born 2 August 1955 (Montbrison – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Muriel Robin grew up with her two sisters, Martine and Nidia, in their parents’ shoe store. She spent her entire childhood in St Etienne, where her parents moved in 1960. Her dream was to become a singer, but after failing the baccalaureate twice, she decided to stop studying and work in one of her parents’ shops in St Etienne in 1975. However, she left them in 1977 and went to Paris to join the Cours Florent. She came first in the entrance exam to the Conservatoire d’art dramatique, where she stayed for three years under the direction of Michel Bouquet. Laureate in 1981, she joined the troupe of the “Petit théâtre de Bouvard”. The latter offered her her first stage role in his play Double Foyer in 1985.
She then started writing, met Pierre Palmade in 1988 and began a professional collaboration with him from which several One Woman Shows followed. In 1987, she reprised the role of Valérie Lemercier in Les Couloirs du temps, les visiteurs 2, her first film appearance. In 2000, she decided to put an end to her career as a comedian to devote herself solely to cinema and played the lead role in Mehdi Charef’s film, Marie-Line. Muriel Robin then lent her voice to the character of Bécassine in the cartoon Bécassine, le trésor viking. Often chosen for her comedic potential, she plays the main character in Coline Serreau’s new comedy-drama, Saint-Jacques… Mecca, and appears in the phenomenal cast of Museum Up, Museum Down, whose brief appearances are punctuated by loud bursts of laughter. But it is during two documentaries that Muriel Robin appears to us in a “natural” way: in Maïwenn’s Le Bal des actrices, as well as in the touching television documentary on Annie Girardot, in which Muriel Robin moves us a lot when she refers to her friend suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
