Robin Sherwood(I)
- Actress
Robin Sherwood was born in Miami Beach, Florida, to the Hon. Wolfie Cohen, a four-term city councilman and successful restaurateur, and Miriam Rose Cohen nee Goldhaber of Johnstown Pennsylvania, a socialite and philanthropist. The family lived in Miami Beach, Florida during the fall and winter and traveled in Europe during the spring and summer. Robin attended Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale and Northfield Mount Herman in Gill Massachusetts to study creative writing. She began her career as a teenage model. She lost her mother at the age of 11 to ovarian cancer. Robin grew up with her older brother, Zachary Cohen (politician of East Hampton, New York) and guided by her father.
Robin signed with a talent agency in Miami, Florida at the age of 14. Already a great beauty, the resulting contract landed her a national television commercial, fashion modeling assignments in Glamour Magazine and on the runway for designer Oleg Cassini.
Through Sarah Lawrence college in New York, she studied acting in London, England at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Robin performed the leading roles in both musical comedies, Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown, and Philia in Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the North Country Players New England summer repertory theater, under the direction of Ronald Bennett a former member of the Michael Chekhov Players.
She trained in classical theater and improvisation studying with the late Lee Strasberg, Sandra Seacat, and Stella Adler.
Sherwood made her movie debut in independent films. She appeared briefly in the comedy Coming Attractions (1978). Soon her resume began to grow with a role in Outside Chance (1978) a CBS movie of the week. She arrived as a leading lady, in the David Schmoeller iconic mystery/horror film Tourist Trap (1979).
After working in independent films, she subsequently began acting in major motion pictures. At MGM Studios, director Martin Davidson cast Sherwood in a small role in the romantic comedy, Hero at Large (1980). Immediately following, Bill Persky cast her as a Marin County hippie, in Serial (1980) for Paramount. She then was given the chance to work with director Brian De Palma in a cameo role in Blow Out (1981) for Columbia Studios. Her break out role came when she signed to star opposite Charles Bronson as his emotionally traumatized daughter in the high profile, box office hit, Death Wish II (1982) for MGM, directed by Michael Winner.
She was showered with accolades for her performance as the muted daughter in Death Wish II and singled out for her beauty on screen by Vincent Canby of the New York Times. Her talent and beauty made her an international box office star.
Sherwood moved to Paris, France in 1983. While based in Paris, her father died. She returned to the states to run his restaurant, The Rascal House Restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida - fulfilling a promise she had made to him.
Robin played the titled role on the stage in 1991, "Clare's Dream", in Los Angeles at the Coast Theater. She won critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times for her earnest and heartfelt performance as a spirited writer coming-of-age-in rural California of the 1930s.
In 2000 Robin launched the frecklefam catalog, a home accessories printed catalog that reached an audience of 26 million women.
On December 21, 2010, she debuted off-Broadway headlining in Fear Mongers: Fireside Chats about Horror Films at Dixon Place. In 2014 she starred in the feature length documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014). Sherwood made her first appearance at The Lincoln Center on the opening night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Film Comment Selects 2015 film festival at the Walter Reade Theater.
Robin lives in New York. She is 5'6" and speaks French. She enjoys such activities as walking in the city and countryside, swimming and ballet. She also is interested in art history, philosophy and photography. She likes horses, Elvis Presley, Motown and wears daisy sterling silver earrings. Her favorite colors are red, French blue/green and a delicate pale yellow.
Robin signed with a talent agency in Miami, Florida at the age of 14. Already a great beauty, the resulting contract landed her a national television commercial, fashion modeling assignments in Glamour Magazine and on the runway for designer Oleg Cassini.
Through Sarah Lawrence college in New York, she studied acting in London, England at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Robin performed the leading roles in both musical comedies, Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown, and Philia in Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the North Country Players New England summer repertory theater, under the direction of Ronald Bennett a former member of the Michael Chekhov Players.
She trained in classical theater and improvisation studying with the late Lee Strasberg, Sandra Seacat, and Stella Adler.
Sherwood made her movie debut in independent films. She appeared briefly in the comedy Coming Attractions (1978). Soon her resume began to grow with a role in Outside Chance (1978) a CBS movie of the week. She arrived as a leading lady, in the David Schmoeller iconic mystery/horror film Tourist Trap (1979).
After working in independent films, she subsequently began acting in major motion pictures. At MGM Studios, director Martin Davidson cast Sherwood in a small role in the romantic comedy, Hero at Large (1980). Immediately following, Bill Persky cast her as a Marin County hippie, in Serial (1980) for Paramount. She then was given the chance to work with director Brian De Palma in a cameo role in Blow Out (1981) for Columbia Studios. Her break out role came when she signed to star opposite Charles Bronson as his emotionally traumatized daughter in the high profile, box office hit, Death Wish II (1982) for MGM, directed by Michael Winner.
She was showered with accolades for her performance as the muted daughter in Death Wish II and singled out for her beauty on screen by Vincent Canby of the New York Times. Her talent and beauty made her an international box office star.
Sherwood moved to Paris, France in 1983. While based in Paris, her father died. She returned to the states to run his restaurant, The Rascal House Restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida - fulfilling a promise she had made to him.
Robin played the titled role on the stage in 1991, "Clare's Dream", in Los Angeles at the Coast Theater. She won critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times for her earnest and heartfelt performance as a spirited writer coming-of-age-in rural California of the 1930s.
In 2000 Robin launched the frecklefam catalog, a home accessories printed catalog that reached an audience of 26 million women.
On December 21, 2010, she debuted off-Broadway headlining in Fear Mongers: Fireside Chats about Horror Films at Dixon Place. In 2014 she starred in the feature length documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014). Sherwood made her first appearance at The Lincoln Center on the opening night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Film Comment Selects 2015 film festival at the Walter Reade Theater.
Robin lives in New York. She is 5'6" and speaks French. She enjoys such activities as walking in the city and countryside, swimming and ballet. She also is interested in art history, philosophy and photography. She likes horses, Elvis Presley, Motown and wears daisy sterling silver earrings. Her favorite colors are red, French blue/green and a delicate pale yellow.
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