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 Cesar Award in 2001 and six nominations for a Moliere Award. She is the youngest of three children of Antoine Robin and Aimee Rimbaud, who owned shoe-shops in Montbrison. In 1960 the family moved to Saint-Etienne. In 1977, aged 22, she left Saint-Etienne for Paris, taking a course in dramatic arts at Cours Florent.

In 1981 she joined Roger Louret in Monclar with his theatre company, Les Baladins en Agenais, where she met Elie Semoun and Annie Gregorio. In 1983 she returned to Paris to work at the Petit Theatre de Bouvard, where she met Didier Benureau. She became known to the wider public towards the end of the 1980s through a television programme called La Classe, broadcast by FR3. She met and became good friends with Pierre Palmade, and together they created her first one-woman-show, Les majorettes se cachent pour mourir, in 1988, directed by Roger Louret, which pushed Robin into the limelight.

In 1997 she obtained her first role in cinema, replacing Valerie Lemercier in Les Couloirs du temps : Les Visiteurs 2. The same year she wrote and directed with Pierre Palmade the play Ils s'aiment, which received a nomination for the Moliere. 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, and that year took her first big role in cinema in the eponymous role of Marie-Line. Robin is a lesbian and has been out since she was young; her partner is actress and producer Anne Le Nen.