Robyn Douglass is an American actress and model who was born on June 21, 1953 in Sendai, Japan . The oldest of two brothers and a sister, Robyn grew up in San Francisco the daughter of an Army pediatrician father and a mother who was a psychologist. She spent twelve years at an all-girl Catholic School, an experience she blames for her initial typecasting in "goody two-shoes roles." She began acting while attending the Catholic school in Mountain View, California. Enrolling at the University of California at San Francisco as a pre-Vet major, she quit in her final year to pursue her first love -- acting. She studied her craft at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre before moving to Chicago. The young actress spent four years doing commercials while studying with Del Close at Second City and Lou Conte at the Hubbard Street Dance Theatre. Robyn's first big break in her career came when she was discovered by director Peter Yates in her hometown of Chicago and cast as Dennis Christopher's heart-throb -- the very nice college coed in the critically-acclaimed film, _Breaking Away .
Has a replica of the sorority shirt she wore in Breaking Away .
Appeared on the cover of the December 1974 issue of Playboy, photographed by Stan Malinowski.
Her late ex-husband, Rick Halprin, was a Chicago attorney.
Has lived in Chicago since her modeling days in the mid-1970s.
Sold her Chicago home (which she bought in 1999) in 2005 to move to Placerville, California (a small gold rush town) where she will help her mother run "The Seasons", a bed-and-breakfast hotel with a lavish rose garden that makes it popular for weddings.
