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Robin Jessica Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the movie The Craft and the television series Prison Break and The Mentalist. Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois to a car salesman father, Patrick, and a bartender mother, Cathy. Tunney is Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and grew up in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic high school, and resided in Palos Heights, Illinois, also in the Chicago area. After graduating high school, she then studied Art... MORE

Robin Jessica Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her lead roles in the movie The Craft and the television series Prison Break and The Mentalist. Tunney was born in Chicago, Illinois to a car salesman father, Patrick, and a bartender mother, Cathy. Tunney is Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and grew up in Orland Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic high school, and resided in Palos Heights, Illinois, also in the Chicago area. After graduating high school, she then studied Art at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She is a cousin of Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney. At the age of 19, Tunney moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained several recurring TV roles on Class of '96, Law & Order, Dream On, and Life Goes On. She gave her breakthrough performance as a suicidal teenager in Empire Records, and attracted further attention by playing a witch in The Craft. She shaved her head for Empire Records and had to wear a wig in The Craft. In 1997, Tunney starred in Bob Gosse's Niagara, Niagara with Henry Thomas in a performance which garnered her the Best Actress award Volpi Cup LESS