Robin Mattson is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the daytime soap operas ''

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'', '' Santa Barbara'', and ''

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''.

Career

Daytime television

Mattson made her daytime debut as troubled teen Hope Bauer on ''

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'' in 1976, her only complete heroine on the soaps. She received a Soap Opera Digest Award and an

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nomination for her first major role as Heather Webber on ''

''. During

Ilene Kristen Ilene Kristen (born Ilene Schatz; July 30, 1952) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Delia Ryan in the ABC soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' (1975–1979, 1982–1983, 1986–1989) and her Emmy-nominated performances as Roxy Bal ...

's absence from ''

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'', she played

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(1984). Replacing

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on '' Santa Barbara'', she received additional Emmy nominations as

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, a role she played from December 1985 through the final episode in January 1993. Mattson then moved to New York to play Janet Green on ''

'' (1994–2000). Over the next few years, she took on several short term roles on '' The Bold and the Beautiful'' (2003), Madame Cheri Love on '' As the World Turns'' (2007), and Lee Michaels on ''

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'' (2010–11). Mattson returned to ''

'' on two occasions, first in 2004 for six months, where she was reunited with her former '' Santa Barbara'' co-star

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, and in the spring of 2012. Mattson has continued to play the role for storyline arcs of varying lengths as the plotline dictated. Mattson would exit in early 2015 but returned once again in May 2016.

Film and primetime television

Mattson began acting at age seven. She made her screen debut in ''

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'' (1966). She co-starred in '' Bonnie's Kids'' (1973) when she was only 15, including appearing topless, as well as '' Candy Stripe Nurses'' (1974) and '' Return to Macon County'' (1975). She appeared in a number of made for television films and guest starred in a number of primetime series, include '' Marcus Welby, M.D.'', '' Happy Days'', '' Barnaby Jones'', ''

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'', '' The Dukes of Hazzard'' and ''

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''.

Personal life

Mattson, whose father was a chef in California, studied at culinary school and co-authored the

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''Soap Opera Café : The Skinny on Food from a Daytime Star''. And from June 1996 until March 1997, she had a cooking show on

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, called ''The Main Ingredient''. ''General Hospital'' profile
abc.go.com; accessed April 4, 2015.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* "Oops! — California Digital Newspaper Collection." ''Oops! — California Digital Newspaper Collection''. Consair- California Digital Newspaper. Web. 1 June 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mattson, Robin Living people Actresses from Los Angeles American film actresses American soap opera actresses American television actresses 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Year of birth missing (living people)