Robin Mattson (born June 1, 1956 in Los Angeles) is an American soap opera actress.
She is arguably the best known character actress on daytime serials, with all of her roles proving to be extremely popular. Mattson was typically cast in supporting, "villainess" type roles, often incorporating other elements to her acting pallette. There was her distinctive flair for the dramatic, as in her roles in Santa Barbara and General Hospital, where she played an immoral goldigger and a psychopath, in the respective shows. She excelled in her flair for comic timing as on Santa Barbara, with fellow actors such as Lane Davies, Gordon Thomson, Justin Deas and Nicolas Coster. Mattson often played the role as an observing outsider, as in her roles on Santa Barbara, All My Children and As the World Turns, in which she desperately wanted to regain relationships with her children and her sense of family.
Mattson's soap roles include:
Robin acted in the romantic comedy movie The Last Guy on Earth (2006) (post production).
Has blonde hair and blue eyes
In 1997, she wrote her own cookbook: Soap Opera Cafe: the Skinny on Food From a Daytime Star. She dedicated it to the person who helped her realize she had a passion for cooking, her father, Paul Mattson.
Daytime soap actress for nearly three decades, usually plays scheming blondes.
Although she has appeared on numerous daytime soap operas and dramas, she has never created a role on any of them herself.
When not performing, she enjoys skiing and ice skating as well as gardening and decorating.
From June of 1996 until March of 1997, she had her own cooking show on the Lifetime network called The Main Ingredient.
