Robin Tunney Biography

Fast Facts

• Donated $200,000 to The Children's Health Fund when she came in second in the finale of Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown․"
• Attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago with her high school classmate, future actress Lara Flynn Boyle
• When she was growing up, her father was a car salesman and her mother was a bartender
• Her best known television roles are agent Teresa Lisbon in "The Mentalist" and Veronica Donovan in "Prison Break," both of whom are involved in investigating crime in one way or another
• Shaved her head for "Empire Records," the first of two teen movies that put her on the Hollywood map, which meant that she had to wear a wig for the second of these films, "The Craft․"
• Enjoyed basketball when she was young, but a knee injury in her freshman year of high school kept her from pursuing the sport
• An avid poker fan, she played in the World Series of Poker in 2006