Robyn Cohen

Robyn Cohen is an American actress best known for her role as Anne Marie Sakowitz, the sunbathing script supervisor in Wes Anderson's ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou''.

Early life

Throughout her teenage years, she attended summer acting programs at Interlochen Performing Arts Camp, Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University before taking her senior year of high school to tour with the Broadway musical revival of ''Cabaret''. She subsequently earned her B.F.A. from the Juilliard School.

After performing in ''A Christmas Carol'' at The Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. she moved to Los Angeles, where she began studying acting with Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West School and Repertory Company.

Career

Cohen became a teacher at Playhouse West in 2006, as well as a team teacher with Jeff Goldblum in their master class program.

In 2014, she became an instructor at James Franco's acting school, Studio 4.

In addition to Wes Anderson's ''The Life Aquatic'' (opposite Bill Murray), some of her film credits are ''The Celestine Prophecy'', ''Road Hard'', ''Zzyzx'', ''Beau Jest'', ''Bedeviled'' and James Franco's films ''Sal'', ''Good Time Max'', ''Fools Gold'' and ''Bukowski''.

In television, she was a series regular on Gravity for Starz network and has also appeared on such shows as ''Cristela'', The Mentalist, The Defenders, NCIS, ''Invasion'', ''The Closer'', NCIS: Los Angeles, ''The Strand'', ''Starved'' (recurring), ''LAX'', and others.

In 2012, she was seen onstage at The Falcon Theater with Melanie Griffith and Scott Caan in his world premiere play ''No Way Around but Through''. Cohen also appeared in the world premiere of Jon Jory's adaptation of ''Tom Jones'' at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2013. She then performed title roles in the repertory season for The Great Lakes Theatre and Idaho Shakespeare Festival throughout their 2015 season.

Some of her additional Los Angeles stage credits include the West Coast premieres of ''The Exonerated'' opposite Jeff Goldblum, and Neil Labute's ''The Shape of Things'' at The Laguna Playhouse. She performed in ''The Grand Tour'' (under Jerry Herman's tutelage at The Colony Theatre), The Long Beach Playhouse (in ''Proof''), ''The Ape'' and ''Brief Encounters'' (with James Franco at Playhouse West), as well as productions with The Blank Theater Company, Circle X, Theater 40, The Victory Theatre Center, Vs. Theater, and The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center in ''Rigoletto''.

Additionally, Cohen has performed in New York and regionally with Lincoln Center, Ford's Theatre, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Paper Mill Playhouse, The North Shore Music Theater, The Sacramento Light Opera, The Bucks County Playhouse, The Poconos Playhouse and with dozens of theaters around North America while touring with the musical revival of ''Cabaret''.

She has appeared in over 75 commercials. She worked again with Wes Anderson as a hamster in the 2005 Dasani water television commercials.

In 2015, she directed the play ''Tape'' by Stephen Belber, and prior to that directed ''27 Wagons Full of Cotton'' by Tennessee Williams, and ''Hello out There'' by William Saroyan.

Personal life

In December 2012, she was awarded over $17 million in a lawsuit against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after losing most of her belongings in an apartment fire at a West Hollywood building owned by Sterling. This award was later overturned by a judge on appeal. She now lives in Studio City.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from West Hollywood, California
People from Studio City, Los Angeles
Juilliard School alumni
American stage actresses
21st-century American women