Karen Robinson is one of the actors of A Million Little Things, portraying the role of Florence Davis.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Robinson was born on February 29, 1968 in London, England, UK. She was raised in Jamaica, before moving to Drumheller, Alberta, Canada with her family as a teenager. She was active in the arts in childhood, including singing in choirs, acting in school plays and reciting at poetry readings.
Robinson studied communication and theatre at Mount Royal College in Calgary before beginning to work as a professional actress in the early 1990s.
Career[]
On stage, Robinson originated the role of Marie-Joseph Angélique in Lorena Gale's play Angélique in 1998, for which she received a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Actress in 1998. In 2003, she originated the role of Lily in the Stratford Festival production of Timothy Findley's play Shadows; the following year, she played Clytemnestra in three concurrent plays, Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Jean Giraudoux's Electra and Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies. In 2006, she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role in a Play (Large Theatre) for her performance in Trevor Rhone's Two Can Play.
In 2009, Robinson played Prospera in a gender-flipped Dream in High Park production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and won the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for her performance as Mrs. Muller in the Citadel Theatre production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.
Robinson has also appeared in productions of M. NourbeSe Philip's Coups and Calypsos, George F. Walker's Problem Child, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Djanet Sears's Harlem Duet, Beth Graham's The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Robinson's film appearances have included Against the Ropes, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Who Killed Atlanta's Children?, Owning Mahowny, Short Hymn, Silent War, Lars and the Real Girl and Final Jeopardy.
On television, Robinson has had regular roles as Carlos's mother in The Line, Ingrid Evans in King, Hani Suleman in Shoot the Messenger, Mildred Clarke in Frankie Drake Mysteries. She is also well-known for playing the role of Ronnie Lee in Schitt's Creek. She also won a 2021 Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Schitt's Creek cast.
Robinson also has a reccurring role as Cassandra Shaw in the Hallmark Movie & Mystery Channel's series Morning Show Mysteries, based on the books by Al Roker. She received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011 for her performance as Cherlene in The Gospel According to the Blues. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Guest Role in a Drama Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, for her appearance on the television series Mary Kills People. In 2020, she appeared on Star Trek: Discovery and Tiny Pretty Things.
In 2021, Robinson was cast as Florence Davis on A Million Little Things.[1]
Appearances[]
| A Million Little Things: Season 3 | ||||||||
| "Hit & Run": | "Writings On the Wall": | "Letting Go": | "The Talk": | "Non-essential": | "Miles Apart": | "Timing": | "The Price of Admission": | "The Lost Sheep": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Trust Me": | "Redefine": | "Junior": | "Listen": | "United Front": | "Not Alone": | "No One Is to Blame": | "Justice: Part 1": | "Justice: Part 2": |
| Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| A Million Little Things: Season 5 | |||||||||
| "The Last Dance": | "Think Twice": | "In the Room": | "A Bird in the Hand": | "No Place Like Home": | "Mic Drop": | "Spilled Milk": | |||
| Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |||
| "Dear Diary": | "Father's Day": | "The Salesman": | "Ironic": | "Tough Stuff": | "One Big Thing": | ||||
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | ||||
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ ‘Schitt’s Creek’s Karen Robinson To Recur On ABC’s ‘A Million Little Things’, by Alexandra Del Rosario, Deadline (April 5, 2021)
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