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`Summer' star Robins has deep state roots.(VARIETY)
- Publication:
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Publish date:
- April 24, 1999
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Broadway and film actress Laila Robins, who stars in the Guthrie Theater's "Summer and Smoke," has firm Minnesota roots although she has never appeared on a professional stage here. Born to Latvian-American parents - her father is a 3M chemist - she put on kiddie plays in her family's St. Paul home. While a student at Murray High School, she performed in plays but was better known as a cheerleader. At the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she studied classical piano and opera. "I wanted to be Joni Mitchell," she said. But theater beckoned. After graduation, Robins entered Yale Drama School, where she earned a master's of fine arts degree. She has been …
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