Robin Mattson
{{Short description|American actress}}
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Robin Mattson is a retired American actress. She is best known for her roles on the daytime soap operas General Hospital, Santa Barbara, and All My Children.
Career
=Daytime television=
Mattson made her daytime debut as troubled teen Hope Bauer on Guiding Light in 1976, her only complete heroine on the soaps. She received a Soap Opera Digest Award and an Emmy Award nomination for her first major role as Heather Webber on General Hospital.{{cite web|title=Robin Mattson profile|url=http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/news/robin-mattson|publisher=Daytime Confidential|access-date=February 27, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231024753/http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/news/robin-mattson|archive-date=December 31, 2013}} During Ilene Kristen's absence from Ryan's Hope, she played Delia Ryan (1984). Replacing Linda Gibboney on Santa Barbara, she received additional Emmy nominations as Gina Blake Lockridge, 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 All My Children (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 Days of Our Lives (2010–11). Mattson returned to General Hospital on two occasions, first in 2004 for six months, where she was reunited with her former Santa Barbara co-star Jed Allan, 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.{{cite web|last=Jicha|first=Tom|title=Soap opera star has to be able to keep a secret|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SOhWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JEMNAAAAIBAJ&dq=eileen-dietz%20general-hospital&pg=1309%2C1152271|work=The Miami News|access-date=December 16, 2012|date=May 4, 1981}}
She made her screen debut in Namu, the Killer Whale (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).{{cite web|title=Robin Mattson|url=http://soapcentral.com/gh/theactors/mattson_robin.php|publisher=Soap Central|access-date=February 27, 2014}} 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, Charlie's Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard and Law & Order.
Personal life
Mattson, whose father was a chef in California, studied at culinary school and co-authored the cook book Soap Opera Café: The Skinny on Food from a Daytime Star.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112174126/donna-lee-daytime-drama-villainess-is/|first=Donna|last=Lee|title=Daytime-drama villainess is dead serious about food|date=May 3, 1995|work=Fresno Bee|access-date=October 28, 2022|page=E4A|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112174467/donna-lee-soap-opera-stars-book-hits/|first=Donna|last=Lee|title=Soap opera star's book hits three magic buttons|date=November 2, 1997|work=Morristown (New Jersey) Daily Record|access-date=October 28, 2022|page=C3|via=Newspapers.com}} From June 1996 until March 1997, she had a cooking show on Lifetime, called The Main Ingredient.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1966
|Lisa Rand | |
| 1967
|Lizzie MacRae | |
| 1973
|Myra | |
| 1974
|Dianne | |
| 1974
|Groupie | |
| 1975
|Junell | |
| 1980
|Linda | |
| 1984
|In 'n Out |Nancy | |
| 1988
|Take Two |Susan Bentley | |
| 1991
|In Between |Margo Turner | |
| 2019
|The Citizen Hotel |As herself |Documentary film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1967
|Robin James |Episode: "Cap'n Flint" |
| 1967
|Jenny Maddox |Episode: "Gator Man" |
| 1967
|Lizzie MacRae |Episodes: "Island of the Lost: Part 1" and "Island of the Lost: Part 2" |
| 1970
|Brae |Episode: "Israel and Love" |
| 1975
|Mavis Brander |Episode: "Dark Corridors" |
| 1975
|Linda |Episode: "Three on a Porch" |
| 1975
|Jan Durant |Television film |
| 1976–1977
|Series regular |
| 1978
|Janice Gordon |Episode: "Unrequited Love... Twice" |
| 1978
|What Really Happened to the Class of '65? |Linda |Episode: "Class Clown" |
| 1978
|Da Nay Jensen |Episode: "The Lost Island" |
| 1978
|Melinda |Episode: "Melinda and the Pinball Wizard" |
| 1978
|Irene Shannon |Episode: "Ricky" |
| 1978
|Shelly Barrett |Episode: "Hitch-Hike to Terror" |
| 1978
|Carol |Episode: "Girl on the Edge" |
| 1978
|The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries |Sheila |Episode: "Scorpion's Sting" |
| 1978
|Jill Turnbull |Episode: "Where There's Smoke" |
| 1978
|Gail Green |Television film |
| 1978
|Sheila |Television film |
| 1978
|Allison Bremer |Television film |
| 1979
|Tina Hayden |Television film |
| 1979
|Jenny |Television film |
| 1979
|Pamela Gorman |Television film |
| 1980
|Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die |Shelby Battles |Television film |
| 1980
|Erica Burke |Episode: "Of Ghosts and Angels" |
| 1980
|Diane Benson |Episode: "Carnival of Thrills" |
| 1980–1983, 2004, 2012–2016
|Series regular (1980–83) |
| 1982
|Fantasies |April |Television film |
| 1984
|Wendy Collins |Episode: "The Awakening of Love/The Impostor" |
| 1984
|Series regular |
| 1985–1993
|Series regular |
| 1989
|False Witness |Jody |Television film |
| 1990
|Menu for Murder |Jan Mayfield |Television film |
| 1993
|Susan Enwright |Episode: "Schemes Like Old Times" |
| 1994–2000
|Series regular |
| 1994
|Rose |Television film |
| 2002
|Francine Landen |Episode: "American Jihad" |
| 2003
|Janet “Sugar” Webber |Recurring role |
| 2007
|Cheri Love |Recurring role |
| 2010–2011
|Lee Michaels |Recurring role |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0560478}}
{{Authority control}}
"Oops! — California Digital Newspaper Collection." Oops! — California Digital Newspaper Collection. Consair- California Digital Newspaper. Web. 1 June 2016.
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Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American film actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses