Muriel Robin
Robin inBasankusu in 2016
Born	(1955-08-02)2 August 1955 (age 70) Montbrison, Loire,France
Occupation(s)	Actress, comedian
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Anne Le Nen ​ (m. 2021)​

Muriel Robin (French pronunciation:[myʁjɛlʁɔbɛ̃]; born 2 August 1955) is a French actress and comedian. She won anInternational Emmy Award for Best Actress in 2007 and received a nomination for aCésar Award in 2001 and six nominations for aMolière Award.

Muriel Robin is the youngest of three children of Antoine Robin and Aimée Rimbaud, who owned shoe-shops inMontbrison. She had two sisters,^[1] Nydia and Martine. In 1960, the family moved toSaint-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 herBaccalauréat 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 leftSaint-Étienne for Paris, taking a course in dramatic arts at Cours Florent, the entry college for the National SuperiorConservatory for Dramatic Arts, in Paris. She graduated and returned to sell shoes in Saint-Étienne

In 1981, she joinedRoger Louret, whom she had met in Paris, in Monclar, with his theatre company,Les Baladins en Agenais. Notable people that she met there includeElie Semoun andAnnie 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 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 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 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 includingTout m’Enerve, Bedos-Robin a collaboration with Roger Louret,Feu la Ma La Mère,andOn Purge Bébé. She also presented on radio, on Europe 1, with her programme,Tout Robin.In 1997, she obtained her first role in cinema, replacingValérie Lemercier in Les Couloirs du temps : Les Visiteurs 2byJean-Marie Poiré. 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 Michèle Laroque, which was a success and received a nomination for the Molière 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 ofMarie-Line, by Medhi Charef. Other roles on stage and screen followed, in the following years.

Robin is alesbian, and has beenout since she was young.^[2] Her partner is actress and producerAnne Le Nen [fr].^[3]

She has strongly criticized the French film industry forblacklisting^[3] and refusing to cast LGBTQ actors, describing this behavior as "if you are gay, you are not desirable".^[4] Whilestraight actors are seen as extending their acting range by taking LGBTQ roles, LGBTQ actors are, she says, routinely denied the opportunity to take straight roles.^[4] Robin says studios refused to cast her in serious roles due to her sexuality.^[3]

Between 1992 and 2007, Muriel Robin was active in supporting concerts by theEnfoirés given for "the Restos du Cœur" created byColuche and of which she became a sponsor until 2007. In 2001 she became equally involved with the journalist Marine Jacquemin in "La Chaine de l’Espoir" (The Chain of Hope) organised by the French Medical Institute for "L'Enfant de Kaboul" (The child of Kabul), inAfghanistan. This hospital opened in 2005.

In 2022 French actors cut their hair in support of women inIran. The protesters includedMarion Cotillard andJuliette Binoche, as well asIsabelle Adjani,Charlotte Gainsbourg,Jane Birkin and Muriel Robin.^[5]

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