American actress
Graduated from Brandeis University (Class of 1991).
Her hero is her 95-year-old grandfather, Harold Laufman, a retired surgeon and author.
Says that she was the worlds worst waitress and also worked as a receptionist.
Her family name means (he/she) refuses in Dutch. (hij/zij weigert).
Her father, Wolfgang Oscar Weigert, a psychiatrist, was born in 1932 in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, and arrived in Maryland in 1938. Her mother, Dionne (Laufman), is a pianist. Robins mothers family were Jewish emigrants from Russia and Germany.
