Robin Johnson

"I swear to God I've never seen an actress like this. She's Mick Jagger plus Marilyn Monroe."
-- Courtney Love, USA Today, September 19 2002

Robin Johnson was born May 24, 1964, and grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. One day when she was 15, sneaking a Kool on the steps of Brooklyn Technical High School, a man (who has never since been identified) came up to her, told her she'd be perfect for the lead in a movie he was helping to cast, and gave her a card with the address for auditions. She promptly forgot about it. Several days later, she found the card again, and figuring "what the hell" went to the audition...

The Robin Johnson filmography.
Yeah, it's pretty much the same as the Site Map and "The Works" on the menu above. Bite me.

   1980: Times Square 

   1983: Baby It's You

   1984: Splitz

         Guiding Light (tv)

   1985: Miami Vice (tv)

         Code Name: Foxfire (tv)

         After Hours

   1988: D.O.A.

         Guiding Light (tv)

Film Review, February 1986: Where's Robin Johnson? Film Review Feb 986 p 46

Lies! All lies! (well mostly lies)

The TVTome.com page for Robin Johnson used to be a good place to start for some basic biographical info, mostly because I was the official editor for her page there. However, when they changed to TV.com, I lost control of the page, and it's slowly filling up with incorrect information. For instance: This Robin Johnson was not a 7th place finalist on the first season of New Zealand Idol. And if anyone has any proof at all that she was on Guiding Light on Sept. 23, 2005, PLEASE send it to me.

HEY TROOPS!
Peripherally related news!

Billy Mernit

has written a novel,

and he'll be reading from it:
MONDAY MAY 5 at 7:00 pm
Academy of Art University, Rm. 225
466 Townsend St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
WEDNESDAY MAY 7 2008 at 7:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 E. 4th St. (near 2nd Ave)
NYC, NY 1003
(212) 505-3360
SATURDAY MAY 10 at 5:00 pm
Minas Gallery
815 W. 36th St.
Baltimore, MD 21211
(410) 732-4258

If you're asking, well, who's Billy Mernit... the last time you probably saw him, he looked like this:

Still not familiar? How 'bout this:

He's now "author of Writing the Romantic Comedy (Harper/Collins) and popular blogger ( Living the Romantic Comedy), serves as both a private script consultant and a story analyst at Universal Studios, while teaching at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program." (Bio stolen from http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/expo/speaker_detail.cfm?speakerID=1198.)
If you go, behave like respectable humans, huh? I don't wanna haveta smack nobody.
(Much love to mmch who found Billy's blog years ago and posted about it on the message board in the "Not Robin Johnson" section.)

What's this site doing here anyhow?

So, in 1980, I went to see this film Times Square, because Tim Curry was in it, and it had something to do with punk rock. The movie starts, and out of this crowd scene comes a girl in a leather jacket, with a funny stiff-legged walk like she's been walking for miles already, dragging a beat-up Kent Strat-copy guitar behind her... yadda yadda yadda, twenty-three years later I give up looking for a website like this and do it myself.

And let's get this out of the way right now. I don't know Robin Johnson, I have never met Robin Johnson, I can't forward anyone's email to her. This site is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Robin Johnson, and the moment I hear from her (or, god forbid, her attorneys) asking me to cut it out, I will gladly sign over the domain name to her and sink back into the depths of the shellac whence I came.

Incidentally, the moment this becomes work, I'm outta here. So I'll need some encouragement.
There are only maybe three email addresses to this domain that will work. One of them is jd AT robinjohnson DOT net. I'm not going to publish any clickable mailto links because that's an invitation for spam. That email address again is

Meanwhile, if you got somethin' ta say, I got a message board here.
There's also a Yahoo! discussion group:

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This site was last modified on May 1, 2008. Good luck finding the new stuff.

Re: the images in the Flash animation on this page: the Times Square images are details of screen captures by the DarkLamb, and are ©2000 Anchor Bay Entertainment Inc.; the image from Baby It's You is ©1983 Paramount Pictures; images from Splitz ©1984 Artists Releasing Corporation; images from Code Name: Foxfire and Miami Vice ©1985 Universal City Studios Inc.; the image from After Hours is ©1985 The Geffen Entertainment Corporation; image from D.O.A. ©1988 Touchstone Pictures; the other image is ©1997 KFWB-AM.

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